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The Brothers Sun: Choice and Creativity

January 23, 2024

I finished watching the Brothers Sun with my husband this past weekend, and there are two big things I’d like to talk about: Choice and Creativity as a Chinese girl. I’ll try to include as little spoilers as I can, but just in case you want to watch first before the discussion, then you may want to stop right […]

Break down the toxic cycle

January 18, 2024

When you were growing up, did you grow up in an environment where your parents kept telling you how to behave and what to do, no matter how you feel? Recently, I watched a South Korean show where the camera followed the lives of one Family. They showed the parents’ interactions with their kids and […]

Replay 1st community event: Holding Fear

January 17, 2024

Last Friday, my accountability sister, Phoebe and I held our very first community hour. In this session, we dived into getting to know how fear feels like in our body, and we also sent ourselves some loving affirmations. The main reason why we did this was because most of us were brought up to ignore […]

When dismissing fear ➡️ “Something’s wrong with ME”

January 11, 2024

In Nov, I brought my son to get his booster Covid shot. While we were walking into a building, there was another mom and her two kids. The younger one was a bit scared. The mom said, I’d done it so many times, I’m not scared. Your brother is not scared either. Once inside the […]

Too Childish

January 9, 2024

Two days ago, I was thinking about what to post on Instagram, my inner critic was strong, so I thought, OK, I'm going to make it easy for me. I'm going to post a photo of me holding my Christmas present, Kuromi (one of the Sanrio characters), given to me by my husband. Guess what? […]

What is really courage?

January 4, 2024

Today, I came upon an interview by Elaine Lin Hering. She is the author of the book called "Unlearning Silence: How to Speak Your Mind, Unleash Talent, and Live More Fully". In this recent interview, she said that "The advice “be more courageous” or “have more confidence” fails to consider the many of our choices […]

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