Category: Mental health & wellness

• S3 E10: June Chua on learning to love herself through dance, how her films led her to Norway & Nepal, and why she moved to Berlin from Canada.

  

  If you want to know how art can change people’s lives, you will love this episode with June Chua. We talk about how dance freed her from body image issues, how a drama class opened up her world and gave her an interest in history and current events, and how her films brought some Norwegians…

  nuancespod

  August 20, 2023

  Asian Canadian Guests, Asian Europeans, Beauty standards, Careers, chinese canadian, Conservatism, Film, journalism/writing, Media representation, Mental health & wellness, Patriarchal cultural norms, Racism at school/in childhood, Racism in Europe, Unconventional Career Choices

  aapodcasters, asian american podcasters, canadians in berlin, chinese canadian, filmmaker, golden cranes, hot docs, june chua, malaysian chinese, mr miyagi, nuancespod, sandra oh, travels with my brother, twin trek

• S3 E09: Rita Phetmixay: No such thing as boundaries in Asian culture – the Lao diaspora, owning the narrative, and healing intergenerational trauma with compassion.

  

  Rita Phetmixay on the secret war in Laos, healing in community, and the power of naming our struggles in order to heal from them. We talk about intergenerational trauma, growing up in the South, moving to L.A., and healing with self compassion.

  sherrylynnlee

  August 13, 2023

  AAPI history, Asian American Guests, Buddhism, intergenerational trauma, Lao American, Laos Secret War, Mental health, Mental health & wellness, Patriotism, Social work, The American South

  asian american podcasters, asian women podcasters, golden crane awards, intergenerational trauma, Lao American, lao diaspora, lao isaan, Mental health, nominee, nuancespod, secret war in laos, self compassion, setting boundaries