Deborah Kim LMFT

“Understanding the complex relationship between politics and emotional well-being may help you judge yourself less and steady yourself more.”

Political Chaos Is Taking a Toll on Our Minds As political instability rises, so do anxiety, depression, and disengagement. New research shows how national turmoil is reshaping Americans’ mental health.

Worth a listen as Han, Eng and Kim Brewster talk about the place of Asian Americans psychologicallly as typically being “unthought subjects” in the written canon of psychoanlytic writing and discourse and its link to the problems of the modern minority impostion. How might clinicians be careful not to collude with what may be unconsciously internalized by Asian American patients or anyone with marginalized identities and be sure to hold in mind the impact of the patient minimizing or making themselves invisible?

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Bringing the Unthought Asian-American Subject to Mind: Cultivating Concern and Care in the Socio-Clinical Space - Couched Podcast Our guests guide us toward a more nuanced engagement with the many fights for freedom we face in our daily lives. Listeners will find creative perspectives on s*x, parenting, and climate activism, among others topics.

Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.
― Rumi

“Curiosity requires uncertainty, and uncertainty requires flexibility. If truth matters more than our beliefs, then we can choose to enter bridging conversations holding those beliefs more loosely, just for now, just to see what happens.”

How to Stay Open and Curious in Hard Conversations Here are eight tips for having better conversations across our differences.