Category: Season 6

Many of us Asians and Asian Americans have experienced trauma in our lives, from recent events as well as from past events, possibly even from generations past.

This short episode answers 2 basic questions: What is trauma? How do we begin to heal from our trauma?

Thanks to the Trauma Healing Institute traumahealingbasics.org and their free resources via Creative Commons share-alike license, they share 3 questions to ask someone who is hurting. Learn how to listen to people who are in pain.

And we close this episode with a reading of the Asian American Christian Collaborative Statement on the Gun Violence in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay—https://www.asianamericanchristiancollaborative.com/statement-on-the-gun-violence-in-monterey-park-and-half-moon-bay

Show Notes

Download free resources from traumahealingbasics.org:

• Trauma Healing Basics Discussion Guide
• 3 simple questions, and listening without offering judgment or solutions
• Recognizing Trauma

Watch the videos

What is trauma? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJ5D4-OYpxo

Healing from Trauma https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e53Psjl0Pe0

Dr. David Chao shares about the pioneering work of the Center of Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary that’s paving the way for Asian Americans to more fully experience the abundant life. These four main focal areas are: race, mental health, discipleship, and leadership.

And, you’re invited to join a free online conference on January 19, 2023, “The Pursuit of Asian American Happiness: Improving Mental Health in the Asian American Church” to get inspired and equipped – get more info and register at https://pts.events/2023-mental-health-conference/

Show Notes

book: “Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans” by David L. Eng and Shinhee Han

Free Online Conference on January 19, 2023—”The Pursuit of Asian American Happiness: Improving Mental Health in the Asian American Church“

Previously on Erasing Shame, watch or listen to how Lighthouse Counseling Network provides subsidized Christian therapy for Asian Americans erasingshame.com/how-asian-american-churches-and-christian-counselors-can-work-better-together/

Center for Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary https://caac.ptsem.edu + their YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/@centerforasianamericanchri1505/ + their podcast https://anchor.fm/ptscaac includes previous talks and presentations about Asian American Christian mental health

Jeanie Chang of Noona’s Noonchi chats with DJ Chuang about how the Christmas holidays is the annual tradition that gathers family together physically but sometimes it’s not the smoothest sleigh ride in town. How can being family time be a better opportunity for meaningful conversations and growing healthy relationships rather than steering into family drama? That’s what we talk about, having bite-sized morsels of intentional thoughts shared with kindness and firmness that have the potential to grow over time into the quality time, joy, and appreciation for the people we belong with in family.

Show Notes

Noona’s Noonchi noonasnoonchi.com • “a deep dive of your favorite K-Dramas from a mental health perspective”

Connect with Jeanie Chang at Your Change Provider yourchangeprovider.com • speaker, therapist, author

Jeanie Chang’s book “A is for Authentic: Not for Anxieties or for Straight A’s” https://amzn.to/3v9EDBf

How Korean Culture Went Global on NPR’s Thoughtline npr.org/2022/09/06/1121364712/how-korean-culture-went-global

Background music = Cello Suite no. 1 – Prelude in G, BWV 1007 performed by Colin Carr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. https://musopen.org/music/3998-cello-suite-no-1-in-g-major-bwv-1007/

Pastor Jin Lee poignantly shares the urgent need for mental health among Korean American communities, opening with an alarming statistic. Jin serves as an executive board member of Mustard Seed Generation (MSG), a nonprofit ministry that is training Korean American churches to be strategically caring and supporting communities for those who struggle with mental health by providing all of its programming in English and Korean languages. MSG’s impact has already exceeded tens of thousands and recognized by national leaders. 

And you don’t have to be Korean American to benefit from the valuable training and resources that MSG offers. Our hope is that MSG will be a great example that inspires other Asian language communities to develop programs to advance care and compassion in their churches too.

Plus, you’re invited to join their virtual event on December 8, 2022, a fundraiser that will be fun and inspiring as MSG goes from a moment to a movement. Register for free at https://www.lovemsg.org

• Mustard Seed Generation mustardseedgeneration.org

• About Jin Lee mustardseedgeneration.org/en/the-board-bio/2023/3/28/u1x0n0h8q8ojhj8i7dajrey4z2u50e

NewStory Church in Los Angeles, California, hosts a ministry called Celebrate Recovery. One of its leaders, Peter Ma, talks about how it’s helped him and others in their process of becoming free from their hurts, habits, and hangups.

Over its history, Celebrate Recovery has helped over 7 million people around the world experience freedom in Jesus Christ, and currently over 35,000 churches have a Celebrate Recovery (CR) ministry. Plus, Cultural Communities Connections hosts a monthly live virtual event, to share resources specific to communities with Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, black, latino, indigenous, and other people of color.

• Celebrate Recovery celebraterecovery.com
• NewStory Church newstorychurch.com
• Background music = Cello Suite no. 1 – Prelude in G, BWV 1007 performed by Colin Carr is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. https://musopen.org/music/3998-cello-suite-no-1-in-g-major-bwv-1007/

Daniel Im (Lead Pastor of Beulah Alliance Church in Alberta, Canada) talks about how he manages his life, marriage, and ministry in one of the most stressful jobs there is. 

He describes how he does so much—authoring books, podcasting, pastoring, parenting, and more. And we learn about how he stays healthy emotionally and mentally, why it’s important for a pastor to have a counselor and see a therapist, as well as how to talk about difficult topics like mental health in church. 

Show Notes

• “Asking for a Friend” – message series https://beulah.ca/asking-for-a-friend/
• Beulah Alliance Church https://beulah.ca/
• Daniel Im https://www.danielim.com/

Books by Daniel Im

• You Are What You Do: And Six Other Lies about Work, Life, and Love
• No Silver Bullets: Five Small Shifts that will Transform Your Ministry
• Planting Missional Churches: Your Guide to Starting Churches that Multiply (Daniel Im and Ed Stetzer)