Category: ASIAN AMERICAN
2 Best Directories to Find Asian American Therapists
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Finding an Asian American counselor or therapist, mental health professional, is a little easier with these directories.
Mental Health Therapists for People of Color
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Let’s make it easier to find mental health professionals, counselors, and therapists who are culturally competent for people of color and BIPOC.
Asian Americans with Bipolar Disorder
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Asian-Americans are 3 times less likely than their white counterparts to seek treatment for their mental health concerns.
Leading Cause of Death among Asian American Young Adults Ages 15-24
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Do you know what is causing more deaths among Asian American young adults between the ages of 15 and 24? It’s not anti-Asian hate crimes by others; it’s suicide, a self-directed act of violence that results in death. But it’s so hard for Asian Americans to talk about suicide for so many reasons, one of…
A Sermon by Pastor Greg Owyang
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Pastor Greg Owyang served as a gifted Chinese-American preacher in the 1980’s and inspired many to serve the Lord. He was tragically martyred in 1985. I had never heard him preach, until recently, when I found a website with some of his sermons from 1983. These recorded audios had thought-by-thought translation from English to Cantonese (Chinese), so for…
Talking About Money Because Jesus Talked About Money
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We have started an on-going conversation and newsletter about becoming generous Asian Ameriacn Christians, thanks to my friend Jeff Lee. He’s had many years of experience in nonprofit management, advancement, and fundraising, while I’ve had some years in the past where I worked for a small private family foundation that funded nonprofits through grants. We’re recording…
Asian American Barriers to Mental Health Treatment & How Churches Can Help
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Key Ministry started a new series on Mental Health Ministry and Cultural Competence and they invited me as one of their webinar speakers, for which I’m grateful to have shared from my lived experience in managing my mood disorder. 2020 brought rapid change to the worldwide Church, but one thing that has not changed much is that ethnically…
Next Generation Networks for Asian American Christian Leaders
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Rise up, Asian Americans! There are more voices beginning to speak and write in the public square of social media and the Web. Coming together has so much more potential than going it alone, solo, or individual, in this multiethnic multicultural world; very needed and long overdue. Here’s a short list of networks that are…
Chinese health concerns, like depression and anxiety
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Chinese and Asian Americans have health concerns, because the most important thing in life is being healthy and being reasonably happy in an imperfect world. Without health, one’s quality of life can be unbearable and push some people towards desperation and tragic consequences, the worst of which is suicide, for this reason a good depression treatment is…
about Next Generation Chinese Canadian Christians
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Living in fast-changing times of the 21st century has enough challenges in our society and culture. Trying to navigate two very different cultures is that much harder. The dynamics of bi-cultural of people from an ethnic Asian heritage and living in an American cultural context brings many challenges and opportunities. Add on top of that…
How to increase Asian Americans’ generosity
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Generosity doesn’t make a lot of sense in a world of consumption and people being people. But as I learn more about generosity, through a couple of pivotal experiences in my life recently, I am finding that giving away money is a lot of fun! And there’s an extra level of fun when it’s your…
Committing My Life to 3 Things = M.S.G.
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3 things that I’m devoting my life to = MultiAsian + Shame + Generosity. Watch this quick personal update video where I explain. It’s taken me many years, several decades, to arrive at discovering what my ultimate contribution in life will be, or should be. My life was blessed to discover and receive clarity around this time last year. I’ve been waiting…
