11: How Asians show their love when they don't say "I love you", w/ Dr Amanda Chan

The Asian Detox Podcast

Do you feel like you have agency over your responses to life? Do you allow your emotions to surface and treat them as useful information?

All of us are socialized to respond to life in certain ways; through our families of origin, our culture of origin, and the dominant culture in which we live. Often, we need quite a lot of awareness and deconditioning to shift into a way of doing life that feels like it fits who we are, rather than what's expected of us.

In episode 11 of the Asian Detox Podcast, TJ Wey and guest Dr Amanda Chan discuss how childhood experiences form adult behavior, the emotional baggage we have inherited as Asian Americans, what connection looks like in Asian families, and working with emotions, highlighting:

• How our Asian parent upbringing ends up incentivizing our behavior as adults
• The gender divide we were raised with, how that impacted us and how we can change that pattern with our children
• The wisdom available for letting things be, viewing chance occurrences as possibilities for growth and framing life in a more positive way
• Our sense that we have to "earn our place" in the world as immigrants and the ways our Asian parents foster connection within the family and beyond
• The role of emotion in healing and the cultural heritage of moving energy through the system in Tai Chi

"We're given a whole range of emotions so that we can use them and experience them and then change them, but they are just forms of energy. Things are always going to happen to you. There's no time in life that they're not, but you decide how you react to them. We need to know that we have more power than we think we do."

Dr Amanda Chan

S1 E11, Asian Detox Podcast

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