"Integration is not assimilation." Asian Australian Trauma and Belonging

Описание: If you’ve ever felt like you had to shrink parts of yourself to succeed in Australia, this conversation will resonate.

💡What if healing didn’t require leaving your culture behind?

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In this powerful discussion, we sit down with Dr Bee Lim; clinical psychologist and author of Welcome Home: Healing Trauma and Reclaiming Wholeness, to unpack identity, trauma, and belonging as Asian Australians.

We explore:

Cultural dissociation: when survival feels like erasing parts of yourself
High-functioning pain in Asian diaspora communities
Migration, intergenerational silence, and legacy burdens
Why integration is not the same as assimilation

This conversation is for Asian community members who:
Feel stretched between cultures
Carry invisible family expectations
Struggle to express anger or vulnerability
Wonder why therapy sometimes feels incomplete

👉 Watch until the end for Bee's reflections on how integration can happen without abandoning your ancestors or your culture.

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📚You can purchase Bee's book, Welcome Home: Healing Trauma and reclaiming wholeness via:
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com.au/Welcome-Hom...
Booktopia: https://www.booktopia.com.au/welcome-...

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