Erasing Shame

The ever creative Brian S. Chan—Pastor, Professor, Author, Artist, Martial Artist—shares his keen insights about the power of beauty to win over depression, those dark feelings and negative thoughts that inconveniently keeps us stuck. We explore various aspects of beauty, truth, goodness, immersive visuals, the creative arts, kinesthetics, and much more. Follow Brian on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/brianseechan Brian's book "The Purple Curtain: Living Out Beauty in Faith & Culture from a Biblical Perspective " https://amzn.to/3JCQMqz --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erasingshame/message

Jenn Suen Chen (a spiritual director, international speaker, enneagram coach, and writer) joins DJ Chuang wraps up this conversation series about spiritual formation and what God is doing in us, with us, and through us. Plus, a mention about a new book that Jenn is authoring. • Catch the entire series at https://erasingshame.com/tag/jenn-suen-chen/ • Connect with Jenn Suen Chen via https://www.jennsuenchen.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erasingshame/message

Jenn Suen Chen (a spiritual director, international speaker, enneagram coach, and writer) joins DJ Chuang to continue this conversation series about the fourth stage of her spiritual formation paradigm, remaking. Oh it's so glorious when God is remaking all things new. • Catch the entire series at https://erasingshame.com/tag/jenn-suen-chen/ • Connect with Jenn Suen Chen via https://www.jennsuenchen.com --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/erasingshame/message

Jenn Suen Chen (a spiritual director, international speaker, enneagram coach, and writer) joins DJ Chuang to continue this conversation series about the four stages of spiritual formation. Awakening is the third stage, following shaping and undoing. Most of us want to grow spiritually; here's how you know what it looks and feels like, and when it's happening. Connect with Jenn Suen Chen via https://www.jennsuenchen.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Jenn Suen Chen explains the second of four stages in her spiritual formation paradigm: undoing. By sharing our real life examples of going through the stages of shaping and undoing, these first 2 stages, we learn how it looks and feels when God is working in our lives during times like these. • Connect with Jenn Suen Chen at https://www.jennsuenchen.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Jiwon Woo, Program Director at Mustard Seed Generation, explains how their mental health training is equipping churches to address mental health issues in congregations and communities around the USA. The next training starts on April 7th, 2023 and goes for 7 weeks.  Get all the details and register at https://learn.mustardseedgeneration.org/ Early bird registration is coming up on March 17th, 2023, and our Erasing Shame listeners get a special $50 discount! Listen for the coupon code and put it to good use.  총 7주간의 프로그램을 통해 한인 교회 지도자 여러분들이 정신건강 전문가분들을 통해 효율적으로 이슈를 다룰 수 있는 방안을 배워나갑니다. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Jenn Suen Chen (a spiritual director, international speaker, enneagram coach, and writer) joins DJ Chuang for a conversation series about spiritual life. Connect with Jenn Suen Chen via https://www.jennsuenchen.com --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Phyllis Myung and DJ Chuang invites you to join us for this in-person event on March 18th, 2023 in New York City, New York - "Have You Eaten? A Mental & Emotional Health Symposium for Asian American Christians" - Register for free at asianamericanchristiancollaborative.com/health-symposium - space is limited Watch or listen to Phyllis Myung's mental health lived experience erasingshame.com/insights-from-a-suicide-attempt-survivor Watch or listen to DJ Chuang's mental health lived experience djchuang.com/my2017 an introduction to Christian Asian Mental Health youtube.com/watch?v=0F5W3Vvk0Xs Christian Asian Mental Health camh.network • CAMH is ready and available to collaborate or partner with you and your church to develop its care ministry --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

David Kim, author of the new book, “Made to Belong: Five Practices for Cultivating Community in a Disconnected World” shares his life experiences that led up to writing this valuable resource for church leaders and followers of Christ to practical and doable ways to overcome loneliness in our times. Recorded live on YouTube. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Where do we even begin to tackle this huge topic? We’re going to begin by presenting the entire episode of The Same Boat Podcast that talks about Spiritual Abuse in the immigrant Asian church. This episode is a conversation with Dr. Roy Kim (Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist at New Legacy Family Counseling), Pastor Wilson Wang (lead pastor of Renew Church OC in Fullerton CA), and Jenna Fu. Thanks to the Same Boat Podcast for permission to syndicate this episode.  See the show notes at erasingshame.com/episode622 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Many of us Asians and Asian Americans have experienced trauma in our lives, from recent events as well as from past events, possibly even from generations past.  This short episode answers 2 basic questions: What is trauma? How do we begin to heal from our trauma? Thanks to the Trauma Healing Institute https://www.traumahealingbasics.org/ and their free resources via Creative Commons share-alike license, they share 3 questions to ask someone who is hurting. Learn how to listen to people who are in pain. And we close this episode with a reading of the Asian American Christian Collaborative Statement on the Gun Violence in Monterey Park and Half Moon Bay—https://www.asianamericanchristiancollaborative.com/statement-on-the-gun-violence-in-monterey-park-and-half-moon-bay   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

(content warning: this episode talks about infertility and sexuality) Dr. Jessica Cho shares her experiences and research into options for women seeking to be a mother, but have infertility and fertility issues, and the many challenging considerations involved with options like domestic adoption through the child welfare system, foster children, international cross-cultural adoption, fertility treatment, or remaining childless. We talk about how this affects our faith and identity in Christ, and how God gives hope in the midst of one's sorrows, griefs, and yearnings. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Dr. David Chao shares about the pioneering work of the Center of Asian American Christianity at Princeton Theological Seminary that's paving the way for Asian Americans to more fully experience the abundant life. These four main focal areas are: race, mental health, discipleship, and leadership. And, you're invited to join a free online conference on January 19, 2023, "The Pursuit of Asian American Happiness: Improving Mental Health in the Asian American Church" to get inspired and equipped - get more info and register at https://pts.events/2023-mental-health-conference/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoJyDhgmN6Y   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Yes we Asian and Asian Americans have strong family values, but that often comes out of duty rather than delight. Dr. Jessica Cho shares about how to grow relationships by practicing emotional availability during those early years of parenting young children, and how that's so valuable in the long run. And then when those children become adults, the'll love being with their parents, and vice versa, full of joy and delight and obliged to visit their parents out of duty. https://youtu.be/oPe24q-SL_k --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Dr. Jessica Cho chats with DJ Chuang about how marriage can be much more than a perfunctory or functional stage of life between adulting and parenting. Listen to this episode for how you can enjoy your marriage with your partner and experience the naked-and-unashamed intimacy that the Bible talks about in the beginning. Learn what emotional connectedness looks and feels like up close. https://youtu.be/r2Hg1ADXc8o Show Notes Dr. Jessica Cho - A New Leaf Counseling https://www.anewleafcounseling.org  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Jeanie Chang of Noona's Noonchi chats with DJ Chuang about how the Christmas holidays is the annual tradition that gathers family together physically but sometimes it's not the smoothest sleigh ride in town. How can being family time be a better opportunity for meaningful conversations and growing healthy relationships rather than steering into family drama? That's what we talk about, having bite-sized morsels of intentional thoughts shared with kindness and firmness that have the potential to grow over time into the quality time, joy, and appreciation for the people we belong with in family. https://youtu.be/MmfYnIpbYz4  Show Notes Noona's Noonchi noonasnoonchi.com • "a deep dive of your favorite K-Dramas from a mental health perspective" Connect with Jeanie Chang at Your Change Provider yourchangeprovider.com • speaker, therapist, author Jeanie Chang's book "A is for Authentic: Not for Anxieties or for Straight A’s" https://amzn.to/3v9EDBf How Korean Culture Went Global on NPR's Thoughtline npr.org/2022/09

Dr. Jessica Cho shares her back story of going from marketing at MTV to the mission field in Japan (where they used talk therapy as part of ministry outreach) and becoming a mental health professional, with a Doctor of Psychology (PsyD) degree and also a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW). Tuck in your earbuds and listen to quite the adventure in how faith and work come together in her life. We also discuss navigating the many roles and careers in the mental health world and how does someone choose or decide. Dr. Jessica Cho's private practice is A New Leaf Counseling https://www.anewleafcounseling.org and her clinical specialties are in the areas of Anxiety, Relational/Marital Discord, Fertility, Adoption Triad, and Grief & Loss. Dr. Cho is a second generation Korean-American who understands the melding of multiple generations and cultural complexities. https://youtu.be/1VCoBvwLYIw --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Pastor Jin Lee poignantly shares the urgent need for mental health among Korean American communities, opening with an alarming statistic. Jin serves as an executive board member of Mustard Seed Generation (MSG), a nonprofit ministry that is training Korean American churches to be strategically caring and supporting communities for those who struggle with mental health by providing all of its programming in English and Korean languages. MSG's impact has already exceeded tens of thousands and recognized by national leaders.  And you don't have to be Korean American to benefit from the valuable training and resources that MSG offers. Our hope is that MSG will be a great example that inspires other Asian language communities to develop programs to advance care and compassion in their churches too. Plus, you're invited to join their virtual event on December 8, 2022, a fundraiser that will be fun and inspiring as MSG goes from a moment to a movement. Register for free at https://www.lovemsg.org • Mustard Seed Gene

NewStory Church in Los Angeles, California, hosts a ministry called Celebrate Recovery. One of its leaders, Peter Ma, talks about how it's helped him and others in their process of becoming free from their hurts, habits, and hangups. Over its history, Celebrate Recovery has helped over 7 million people around the world experience freedom in Jesus Christ, and currently over 35,000 churches have a Celebrate Recovery (CR) ministry. Plus, Cultural Communities Connections hosts a monthly live virtual event, to share resources specific to communities with Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, black, latino, indigenous, and other people of color. • Celebrate Recovery https://www.celebraterecovery.com • NewStory Church https://newstorychurch.com https://youtu.be/wn6XJmveqEk   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message

Daniel Im (Lead Pastor of Beulah Alliance Church in Alberta, Canada) talks about how he manages his life, marriage, and ministry in one of the most stressful jobs there is.  He describes how he does so much—authoring books, podcasting, pastoring, parenting, and more. And we learn about how he stays healthy emotionally and mentally, why it's important for a pastor to have a counselor and see a therapist, as well as how to talk about difficult topics like mental health in church.  • "Asking for a Friend" - message series https://beulah.ca/asking-for-a-friend/ • Beulah Alliance Church https://beulah.ca/ • Daniel Im https://www.danielim.com/   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/erasingshame/message