Hi all, Hope you're staying warm and dry as February turns to March! East Wind Ezine Sara Dosa’s “Fire of Love” is nominated for a 2023 Oscar for Best Documentary Feature. This outstanding film stirred me to think about the fires within our hearts, minds, and societies as we erupt into a new world. (February 28, 2023) MOSF 18.1: Sara Dosa’s Fire of Love…and the Fires Within and from Psychology Today:   12 Tools to Help Cope With Catastrophic Anxiety and Worry  Catastrophic anxiety can be debilitating and ...Continue Reading

Hi all, Happy Lunar New Year! Two articles just published on Wednesday, Feb 1 online - the first on racism and casteism, the second with reflections and advice for those helping loved ones who are suffering, including a nod to Mindful Self-Compassion. The first is in Lion's Roar - thus a good harbinger of the year to come, I hope!  Someone I Love Is Hurting  - Lion’s Roar, online 2/2/2023 We empathize with people with obvious physical health conditions; we sign their casts and send get-well cards ...Continue Reading

Dear all, Thanks for your continued indulgence - I hope I can add something for your interest and ongoing growth. As always, I welcome comments either directly or on my East Wind essays :) MOSF 17.14: Young, Asian American, and All the Feels: Hua Hsu’s Stay True (EAAPAAO Part 2) Hua Hsu’s /Stay True/ is a memoir about collegiate friendship, but also a cultural and mental health intervention, emphasizing that we stay true to the people in our lives and what truly sustains us. It is of particular interest for ...Continue Reading

Hi all, Just one essay for your attention this month :) I'm starting a new series at East Wind - Everything Asian American Psychology All At Once or EAAPAAO! MOSF 17.13: EAAPAAO Part 1: Dutybound Model Minorities, Dependent Sense of Self, and Dying Inside   erin Khuê Ninh (pronounced “AIR-in KWAY NING”) Associate Professor and Chair of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara, does a stellar cartography of pain points in the Asian American psyche in her two monographs to date, Passing for P ...Continue Reading

AABA president Charles Jung and City Attorney David Chiu at left at Justice for Vicha rally. See this article for more. Hi all,Election day is almost upon us. I'm cultivating hope though anti-democratic and even violent forces are at work. Paul Pelosi was just attacked with a hammer in his own home by a man who seemed egged on by right-wing conspiracy theories and the decades-long demonization of Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Contempt, hatred, disinformation and gaslighting are tools of abusive power. I think we ...Continue Reading

Hi all - The “summer of blogsoul” :) with these three latest in Psychology Today - Which of Six Power Types Will You Embody and Support? Psychology Today, September 15, 2022 Power takes many forms in society and in interpersonal relationships. Which of these have you experienced, and what should we cultivate within and between us? (Promoted To Essential Topic, in Ethics and Morality) Eight Types of Humility Needed for Cognitive Clarity, Psychology Today, September 8, 2022 We've gone through the "Me ...Continue Reading

Hi all! First off - I'm offering Mindful Self-Compassion workshops. I am happy to offer you a sliding scale. Let's do this. Details at the end of the email. Hope you're having a good summer. I'm 'laying flat' and enjoying time with my mom, friends, music, nature, and peace and quiet. A highlight this year has been seeing jazz superstar Esperanza Spalding in concert a couple of times, the last time with Gustavo Dudamel and an international youth orchestra that had just been together for 2 weeks before the concert at th ...Continue Reading

Hi all, A short message and just one essay this last month. If you missed last month's newsletter, it's available in the archive here. Just published this last weekend. MOSF 17.9: “Can I Withhold Care from a Bigot?” A Brown Psychiatrist’s Perspective This 3500 word essay expands on an ethical dilemma posed in the New York Times to NYU professor of ethics and law Kwame Anthony Appiah. His response was right on, but also underestimated the potential for damage to caregivers and caregiving teams from dealing with a hostil ...Continue Reading

Hi all, Morning meditation, 6/7/22: "Resting. Motion. Inertia. Trajectory. Trajectory of bullets aimed at children’s faces. How to change. How to change. This killing machine of America, callous and cruel, numbed, uncaring, careless, reveling in unrestrained power. Bodies, casually dropped on the streets, casual-ties of causality. Historical rampages played out on new victims, every day new victims. New tears. From Newtown to Buffalo, Kings and Kennedys, X’s and Arbery’s, veins and arteries, Buffalo to Uvalde, bu ...Continue Reading

"That's just like, your opinion, man!"   Happy spring! Like many of you, I was appalled by the unmasking behavior we saw last week on airplanes. My joke was "who knew that the first thing we'd see when the masks came off would be the a$$holes?" Sigh. So I wrote this article, to try to bring us closer to compassion and sensitivity to individuality and vulnerability. To Mask or Not to Mask When Masking is Not Mandatory | Psychology Today, April 26, 2022   And then I was appalled by watchin ...Continue Reading