Think about growing up in an urban area in the 1980’s as the child of immigrant parents from Bangladesh.  You are a minority in the minority group on top of it because there still aren’t too many people who have immigrated over and society doesn’t have much knowledge of the Bangladesh culture.  You grow up knowing that your parents witnessed the genocide of Hindus in their country and your mother had to escape and live in the jungle to stay alive.  Your parents worked hard to give their siblings a better quality of life and managed to save enough money to [...]

Hi everyone and welcome to #YouGotThis: Finding Success and Happiness.  This is a women’s empowerment blog that will be featuring ten women over the course of ten weeks.  My name is Tanvi Mathew.  I’m a licensed therapist and a life coach practicing in NJ.  I’ve been in the mental health field for 16 years now, functioning in various clinical and administrative roles. But my most important and ongoing roles have been as a wife, a mother, a daughter, a sister, and a WOMAN. I want readers to understand the background and how #YouGotThis: Finding Success and Happiness came to be [...]