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This week’s guest is Dr. Trang Hoang, Ph.D., LCSW. Dr. Hoang is a professor at the USC School of Social Work, former division director at SSG Alliance, and received her graduate and doctorate degrees at UCLA.
For folks who are trying to get on that boat or that plane, being alive is the mission.
Dr. Jordan B. Peterson says life is comprised of or repeats, so get those repeated things right. Sometimes it's bringing people back to these small moments of their lives. And later on, the poem from Rumi, the Persian philosopher.
Dr. Huang: The one greatest anchors and grounding mechanisms is finding the familiar. If we can find a familiar, we can stay grounded in moments at a time, I think it's a lot more manageable. We all need an anchor, and I think we forget to help people find that anchor for themselves.
Benoit: The best thing that I've learned is to be with someone. How do you empower people to find their own path? True empowerment is to really recognize the person underneath without their accomplishments.
Dr. Hong: It's important to recognize that you got to this point. Despite the odds, despite the challenges, that's your resilience. Life at large is a season. It's very cyclical, it's nonlinear. Just because you are in a season of darkness does not mean that your next seasons will also be dark.
Dr. Wong: Be less judgmental of ourselves and others.
Do you ever wonder why life is full of suffering? Do you get stuck in your negative thought patterns and self-talk? Do you want to improve your mental and emotional wellbeing?
This week’s guest is Dr. Trang Hoang, Ph.D., LCSW. Dr. Hoang is a professor at the USC School of Social Work, former division director at SSG Alliance, and received her graduate and doctorate degrees at UCLA.
This is a very special episode because Dr. Hoang does not do media appearances due to her high emphasis on privacy, so this may be the first and last time you hear from her directly.
Dr. Hoang has seven publications under her name and is the co-chair of the AAPI Equity Alliance Mental Health Subcommittee, and served on numerous regional and national associations, such as the UCLA Conflict Resolution & Mediation Team and Council on Social Work Education.
Dr. Hoang directly experienced the horrific reality of wars in southern Vietnam and the subsequent refugee experience when she was young, before seeking safety in the United States.
Expect to learn a lot about Dr. Hoang's horrific refugee survival experience on a boat, how to improve your mental health, be self-compassionate when it's the hardest, and more.
Let’s get this started.
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Show Notes
Dr. Hoang’s Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/trang-hoang-6b8b1643/
Dr. Hoang’s Email: Thcongviec@gmail.com
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