Challenge colonial mentality and colorism while growing self-worth, cultural pride, and solidarity-based belonging. Name anti-Blackness and proximity-to-whiteness shaping SEA lives.

Create a culturally familiar, embodied pathway to surface guilt, regret, repair bids; witness harms; and invite forgiveness, accountability, and forward movement in family/couple work. Center embodied, ritual action as legitimate therapeutic communication.

Externalize “unwellness,” refuse pathologizing scripts, and re-author meaning through brief letter-writing and relational witnessing (Khúc, 2024).