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Workshop: Healing Practices for Parentified Daughters of Color

Wednesday, 6/3/2026
5:30 - 7:30
James C. Hormel LGBTQIA Center - 3rd Fl
Main Library

100 Larkin Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
United States

415-557-4400

Explore the effects of growing up as the eldest or parentified daughter and participate in workshops centered on accessing and processing your feelings through group work (or group reflections), somatic practices and other activities.

Join Holistic Life Coach Karolyn Wong as she guides us in a 2 Part Healing Series for parentified and eldest daughters focused on honoring our anger and sadness and redefining what being supported and empowered can look like for us on the other side of our healing now. 

  • Part 1 - Grieving Our Inner Children, May 20
  • Part 2 - From Surviving to Thriving, June 3

Karolyn Wong is a speaker and holistic life coach who supports Women of Color & LGBTQ+ People, Communities & Organizations to feel most grounded empowered, and creative with how we live our lives and do our purpose work in community to create healthier, sustainable communities and movements.

She uses Eastern practices like meditation, breathwork and energy healing to help guide people back home to their ancestral wisdom and intuition within so that they can feel most aligned, empowered and confident in themselves, their lives and their communities.

Karolyn Wong (she/they) is a Queer Chinese Woman, with roots in Toi San & Hoi Ping in Southern China and was born and raised in Oakland, or unceded Ohlone Land. 

Karolyn Wong - Website

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This program is sponsored by Friends of the San Francisco Public Library.

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All programs are drop-in (no registration necessary) unless otherwise noted. All SFPL locations are wheelchair accessible. For accommodations (such as ASL), call (415) 557-4557 or contact accessibility@sfpl.org. Requesting at least 3 business days in advance will help ensure availability.

This program will be conducted in English unless otherwise noted.

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