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on may 31, I held space with folks on grief and solidarity day, a global call to action from @hollytruhlar. we cozied up and created a communal altar together, expressed and processed our individual and shared grief through writing, and singing, ending our session with @alexandra_blakely carry this all. we also shared so much sweetness, care, and gratitude to one another in transmuting our collective ache. for this event, I compiled my first zine ever (!!!), a companion for tending grief, with teachings and healing spells from @camillesaparabarton @mosaiceye @annika.izora & malkia devich cyril & francis weller. planning to expand this offering over the next month or so! would a virtual grief space be of interest to folks? 🤍 #griefandsolidaritydays #grieftending #griefandloss #collectivegrief #climatejustice #freepalestine

I am honored to be invited as a breakout session facilitator at the @apaics_org / @apaicsleads Women’s Collective Summit in Arlington, VA on June 12! I will be speaking about Overcoming Imposter Syndrome, an experience I know all too well as a queer, neurodivergent, 1.5 generation Asian American woman and entrepreneur. The APAICS Women’s Collective Summit celebrates and uplifts women in pubic service through a series of panels, workshops, and networking opportunities. Hope to see others there! To learn more and join the Women’s Collective, visit apaics.org/womens-collective. • #APAICSLeads #WomensCollective

gather with me on may 31 to create space for and be in solidarity with grief. to those longing for a more liberated world: you are invited to gather and honor your heartbreak. grief is not what pulls us away from the movement, it is what roots us deeper in care. and we were never meant to carry it alone. we will co-create an altar, sing, share a meal, witness, and be, together. details: may 31 from 11am - 1pm location in columbia heights, NW DC *address shared upon registration *is accessible via metro, bike, car, bus *space not wheelchair accessible and has stairs *masks are encouraged registration required and limited to 15 people please text/DM/email Wing for registration info - wellnesswithwing@gmail.com • gratitude to @hollytruhlar for this global call to host grief & solidarity days on may 31 and june 1, and for generously sharing resources.

recap of the grief space offerings for the @freedomhealersdc replenishment event on april 27 🤍 • #grieftending #griefandloss #griefritual #healingfromloss #asiantherapist #dmvtherapist #queertherapist #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth #fhdc

part of healing generational / ancestral wounds can be using your voice as a channel to express and release pain and grief, to being witnessed, seen, heard. it might not always be safe, nor feel safe and comfortable to speak out, so try sharing within supportive, healthy, nurturing relationships and spaces. 🤍 … #nationalpoetrymonth #grieftending #healingfromloss #asiantherapist #dmvtherapist #queertherapist #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth #intergenerationaltrauma #intergenerationalhealing #ancestralhealing #ancestralwisdom

I’ll be holding space for grief on april 27 replenishment event. come join us @freedomhealersdc for restorative offerings in service of the ongoing work towards collective liberation. … #grieftending #healingfromloss #asiantherapist #dmvtherapist #queertherapist #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth #fhdc

to acknowledge and sit with the experience of loss is not easy nor comfortable, and it is necessary, for “to live is to grieve more than death itself.” 💌 would you join a grief circle to talk about the messiness and beauty of loss, especially non-death related loss, the losses that often times go unnamed? stay tuned for more details this week! 🕊️🤍 … #grieftending #healingfromloss #asiantherapist #dmvtherapist #queertherapist #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth

hello! as I continue to re-emerge here, taking some time to share a bit about me and the direction of my work lately. 🕊️🫶🏼 gratitude to you for your presence and curiosity! I invite you to follow along for offerings, insights, and reflections on grief tending. for now, I’d love to know in the comments ways you are/would like to be supported through grief. 🕊️🫶🏼 … 📷 @airinyung … #grieftending #healingfromloss #asiantherapist #dmvtherapist #queertherapist #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth

it’s been awhile y’all... I’d like to share some musings from march, related to loss, gratitude, springtime, artistry, and community. and what has helped in my winter thaw towards my steady spring bloom and what has filled me up to show up with greater presence and clarity with you. maybe some of this will inspire you or help you feel less alone, wherever and however you are. thank you for continuing to journey along with me. … it feels so centering to write and share openly again. to (re)connect with you. to share in supportive space with you, wherever you are, to receive or leave here. I invite you to follow along and look out for my community-based grief offerings (📍piscataway+anacostan / md+dc) and expanded therapy services coming soon! in solidarity with care wing … #grieftending #healingfromloss #asiantherapist #dmvtherapist #queertherapist #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth

I am SO looking forward to sharing and holding space with folks who will be joining @its_oliviakim and myself TOMORROW for our grief workshop @ 7pm EST / 3 pm PST! 🤲🏼🤍 here’s a little preview of what I’ll be guiding folks through in the beginning, focused on being with our grief, and other emotions and sensations through embodied breath and movement! the invitation to connect with the breath and offer gentle, supportive touch to the body is in service of bringing attention to our individual and collective nervous system, followed by some movement to help move any stagnant energy! 💌 do you already practice / have you tried anything you see? 🤭 📷 cover @airinyung

I wrote this poem to help process some of what I’ve been moving through this week, and will share it in written form in another post. I’ve attuned more deeply with spirit, nature, and the earth as sources for wisdom that my/our commitment to preservation and liberation must grow from here. I’ve also been filled with hope and inspiration by my upcoming co-created workshop with @its_oliviakim where we will hold space to collectively witness grief, together, through connecting with our breath, body, and creative spirits 🤍 there are a few spots left, if you’d like to gather with us. register is 🔗 above, and in my story. in solidarity, with deep love, care + support for the fabric we are weaving and tending to, together. 🤲🏼🤍🌿 p.s. I LOVE the asmr in this video! gifted by nature’s bounty.

talking through the parts of me that came up from choosing to paint tonight, rather than do the things I should/could have done instead. I share how the inner work never really stops, which is why practice is key. I share about parts of me that felt uncomfortable, and how my higher self has/is coaxing me through. choosing to love on ourselves and gift ourselves moments of ease, slowness, creativity, and joy is part of ways I acknowledge breaking cycles of intergenerational suffering. and also fuel self preservation and wellbeing. reminder to practice kindness towards yourself through your process of practice. 🤍

rather than doing — doing the things I should / could be doing, I am choosing to nurture and be with my inner creative self. @fivebelow has these cute paint kits, that I also love to gift! 🖼️ how do you manage the sunday scaries?

here’s a snippet from our IG live! @its_oliviakim and I share what inspired our upcoming collaborative workshop focused on processing grief and loss through movement, breathwork, embodiment practice, and art, specifically with/for the experiences of adult child of immigrants. the layered, complex grief experience we all face at some point in our lives continues to be taboo and uncomfortable for many of us. the reality is grief needs a loving witness, and invites us out of isolation. grief, whether personally felt, collectively, ancestrally, requires a dose of vulnerability, connection, courage, radical honesty, and love. grief, among other emotions, can and will often live in our bodies until we give attention and space for it to move and transform. as children of immigrants, we likely hold and carry the grief of our ancestors who may have suffered trauma, hardship, and violence. as beings living through the polycrises of our times—climate, gen0cide, loss of safety and security in our daily lives— we must prioritize practices that allow us to digest, metabolize, process, and rest. if you feel curious / called to connect & process with us around grief, we invite you to join us on tuesday november 12 @ 7pm est / 4pm pst for a free, virtual workshop centered around witnessing each other in community. sign up for the event via 🔗 in by-oh— & full replay of our live available now in our profiles! (I give a shoutout to @avietplace who is doing anti displacement and intergenerational advocacy work in the vietnamese community across the dc-md-va area!) 🤍 #grief #griefjourney #collectivegrief #loveandloss

the gift of my grief (🎞️ moments over the course of my week) a companion I had not yet fully known, am still getting to know, and have grown to find friendship with. a tender, patient relating where I listen more closely between the stillness and the noise, to hear the whispers that slowing down is ok right now, slowing down is necessary here. and in the slowing down and the in between moments, I take in the vibrancy outside of myself and all around, and open myself to receive, to be poured back into. and as life moves in cycles, there will come time again to shed and release outwards. the gift of my grief has guided me closer again to me and to all those who love and support me, who I’m grateful to call community. 🤍🕊️ 🫧 sound bath @melbeyondyoga 📖 tending grief @camillesaparabarton 💐 @momsorganicmarket (p.s. did not realize today is #nationalgriefawarenessday when I posted 🥹) • • • #grief #slowliving #healingjustice #collectivehealing #collectivecare #connection #embodiment #somatichealing #healingwithnature

🪷 healing justice 🪷 @apidvrp hosted their first ever healing justice summit - lotus renewal on saturday. as soon as I walked into @festivaldc I exhaled a much needed sigh. I felt able to release— perfectly aligned with full moon vibes 🌕😮‍💨! ty @fictionals for your modeled care and reminding me of the event 🥹🫶🏼 I felt at home among intentional community uplifting and moving us forward in creativity, heart centered solidarity practice, resistance work, and intergenerational healing. 🇵🇸 my day was filled with experiencing qi gong, communing with folks some new, some emerging; smiling masked faces all around; playing with soil and reflecting on nature as ally and healer @plantsandbloomsreimagined; origami folding. a joyful nod to supporting local multidisciplinary artists: @gentlesuns @buppletea (🐚✍🏻!!!) & @nehamisrastudio for being in flight with me, reminding that “the only certificate we need [for being enough] is already within.” received abundant garden goods from raven @xercessociety, avantika @dcmutualaidapothecary, & seeds from @ujamaafarms! I left feeling light, open, soulfully nourished, delighted, renewed. and even more so after treating myself to some 🍦🥲! excited to continue community building and co-creating with new connections! to support @apidvrp work, follow their page! to learn ways to share space with me, to flow and be well, together, follow along here @wellnesswithwing 🤍🕊️🤍 • • • #healingjustice #collectivecare #tendinggrief #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth#wellnesswithwing

when self trust is greater than fear 🕊️ rebuilding my sense of self, my strength, my capacity this past year has meant moving at the speed of regaining trust, primarily within myself. returning to climbing reminds me of the self trust required to overcome fear, to communicate honestly and trust nurturing others, and to breathe steadily and affirm myself lovingly as I take one step at a time. I know that trust was never too far, it’s been in me all along waiting to be tended to. finding my way back to movement of all kinds has been especially supportive, with felt delight and surprise. surprise in what I am capable of when I honor my voice within, that tells me “it’s ok, necessary even, to go slow,” “it’s ok to say not right now,” “it’s growth to recognize if this is too much, too soon.” when we work towards deconditioning from narratives and trapped bodily experiences rooted in scarcity, fear, and trauma, we create space for the inner wisdom and trust that’s been there all along to be our guide. this practice and process is what brings us closer to liberation. please remember you are not alone on this journey. 🤍🤍🤍 • • • #movement #healing #selflove #selfcare #collectivecare #grief #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #love#wellnesswithwing

🌱 creative living to me honors my multi-faceted Self, in communion with nature, spirit, the company I tend to, and who tends to me; being open to curiosity, exploration, learning, unlearning, and relearning every step of the way. 🌱 the art of daily living to me is an attunement to what enlivens and energizes me, what moves me, shakes me, breaks me, fuels me. what helps create space so I can be more in my body, and with the collective body. 🌱 inspired by what @gisellebuchanan writes: “creative living is not just about what you can produce. it’s about how you tend to your daily living. the lens through which you look. how you adore your body. how you prepare your food. what you notice as you’re looking. what you hear when you’re listening. it’s about the beauty you extract from the quotidian of this life.” 🌱 what are you creating in this moment or season? • • • #heartcentered #healing #collectivecare #grief #tendinggrief #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #love #wellnesswithwing

hi all! 🕊️ wing here, extending an invitation to those who are seeking therapeutic support to navigate the poly crisis of our times, with guidance to attune deeper within, with each other, and re-member the truth of our interconnectedness. more below on what my focus areas are! 🤲🏼🪷🤲🏼 part of my heart work is co-creating therapeutic space with individuals, dyads, and groups, focusing on healing intergenerational and attachment trauma, navigating grief, loss, anxiety; exploring spirituality and identity; navigating non-traditional relationship structures; and centering the whole person (body-mind-spirit) in the process. 🤲🏼🪷🤲🏼 i am welcoming virtual therapy clients who are based in maryland, and invite referrals and anyone curious to connect! 🔗 in bio to book a FREE 15 min connection call, and to learn more about me, and self pay sliding scale options 🤲🏼🪷🤲🏼 #heartcentered #healing #collectivecare #grief #tendinggrief #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #love #wellnesswithwing

the night won’t end grateful @busboysandpoets organized this critical documentary film screening investigating “attacks on civilians by the Israeli military in Gaza and the United States’ role in the war.” @ajfaultlines “worked with journalists in Gaza over the course of several months to follow three Palestinian families as they recount horrific experiences they endured and their struggle for survival amid the relentless Israeli assault. each family’s experience tells a different story of the war and how their experiences and losses occurred alongside the Biden administration’s continued support for the Israeli offensive.” the screening was followed by panel (and a much appreciated debrief-esque) discussion with the director, writer and producer Kavitha Chekuru, correspondent @sharifkouddous and former director in the state department’s bureau of political-military affairs Josh Paul.  please, please, please watch this film FREE on y0u tube via @aljazeeraenglish @ajfaultlines (🔗 in my b!0) contact them if you’d like to organize a group screening! keep contacting your reps! keep your loved ones close! 🤍 keffiyah @sarahmusa • print + stickers (gifted from mel!) @onelanestudios with love, grief, solidarity 🕊️🇵🇸

@cafecinodc presents: Hi! Tea Time 🫖 🌻 featuring yours truly @wellnesswithwing for guided meditation, supporting a mid-summer slow down and refresh. 🌻 stay for a communal tea tasting, with optional THC & CBD tinctures courtesy of @reeferchieferdc (see previous post for more details), small bites, and conversation! 🌻 join us saturday july 13 @ 1-3pm • near eastern market dc 🔗 registration link in b!oi

🌈 grateful to have witnessed, met, after-party-danced with, and shared heart to hearts with @alokvmenon and @travisalabanza in oslo, and in support of palestine! 🥹 I laughed heartily, sobbed achingly, and felt so deeply held during y’all’s show, from start to finish. thank you @alokvmenon for your kind being and doings; for creating pockets of joy and shining a light on us tender queers— tears, glam, and all. that while it is hard for me/us to receive love, we remember through the mirrors of one another that we are inherently and deeply deserving. we give love transformed from the deepest wells of pain, and share it. and that is a gift some unfortunately fear. not only the love we give, also how we choose to show it and live it. and still, love is not finite. love is abundant. love is love is love is love. 📍oslo → ålesund → reykjavik #pride #tenderqueer #noprideingenocide

sharing this metta (loving kindness) practice to any and all who might need it 🤍🍉 may i / you / we be happy may i / you / we be healthy and well may i / you / we be safe and protected may i / you / we be at ease “you” as in anyone in your life who might be going through a hard time “we” as in our greater collective across our respective geographies and our world 🤍🍉 @sarahmusa kuffiyeh 100% proceeds aid gaza relief efforts #loveandliberation #freepalestine

“when we feel, we heal” @susanlieu 🫶🏼 during the illuminasia festival last weekend, I got to hear and meet these asian authors and advocates for mental health in our communities! thank you @yellowchaircollective for your warm reminder that I belong, we belong. and from one manicurist’s daughter to another, thank you chị @susanlieu for your courageous voice and being a model of how art is such a strong support in helping to process, understand, and move our emotions through. grateful to be part of this movement and work of intergenerational trauma healing and post traumatic growth. 🤲🏼 now welcoming new therapy clients based in maryland! see 🔗 to book a connecting call or share a referral! 💌 susan gave me a stack of these thoughtful postcards! if you’d like one, please dm me your addy and I’ll get one to ya ☺️ limited in quantity!! • #asianmentalhealth #aanhpiheritagemonth #mentalhealthawareness #intergenerationalhealing #freepalestine

repost @asianmentalhealthcollective 🕊️🫶🏼🍉 • As it is Asian Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month, many of us are grappling with living with feelings of immense grief, anger, and helplessness while wondering if it is okay to feel joy and celebrate. Grief and joy can coexist. Through sadness, heartbreak, and grief - joy, celebration and resilience persits. We invite you to hold onto all of those powerful emotions and use them as fuel to take action however you are able to. • #asianmentalhealth #mentalhealthawareness #endthestigma #freepalestine

WKND — aanhpi mental health & community care illumnasia was incredibly restorative, heart healing, connective, and affirming. perfectly aligned with this month and taurus 🐂 season. 1-3, 10: the people’s garden 4-9: @natasianart hosted @melbeyondyoga sound baths @soaroverhate self defense workshops @anthonyleart live painting @fishhousefunk silent disco plus @yumeasianfusion treats 🍙 🤍 reminding folks this #mentalhealthawarenessmonth #mentalhealthweek and in general: create space to listen to your needs, follow what helps you return to a centered, joyful, compassionate, and expansive place. be with others who help you bloom into more of your creativity, authenticity, love, and multifaceted feeling being; also practice helping yourself bloom in those ways. seek spaces that are inclusive of various forms of care and healing, and accessible to every body. choose to do less, if you feel overwhelmed by trying to do the most right now. remember the support of mother earth— the ground, the sounds, the sights, the smells. grieve, release, laugh, cry, repeat as many times as needed. #asianmentalhealth #freepalestine

MAY — aanhpi heritage + mental health awareness month a vulnerable post for a vulnerable time: I want to share a glimpse into my personal healing and liberation work, and what it’s been like to navigate my mental and overall health as someone who has experienced dissociation and body dysmorphia for much of her life; coming to terms with her neurodivergence later in life; been exposed to personal, relational, and collective crises and trauma; and trying to show up daily to the resistance and liberation of palesteen, anyways, the best I can. intersections of my life, my identity that I continue to unpack, reckon with, crawl through the dark depths of in hopes of getting closer to the truth, my truth, of how I move with and inhabit this body. rage, trauma, fear, grief— of my own, my ancestors, our ancestors, our collective now, aching, dying, fighting for liberation of palesteen and for all beings— are lodged inside nooks and crannies of my being— my head, my heart, my gut, my lungs; my jaw, ears, throat, shoulders, back, hips. I have frozen, collapsed, desired to flee many times. and there’s still my will to fight, growing stronger by the day. simultaneously, my creative, curious, hopeful spirit, and joy continue to gently nestle their way in to hold, nurture, and cradle the rage, trauma, fear, and grief. reminders to move at the speed of trust within my own body. how the parts of me, the ones I know and the ones I’m getting to know, come together in support of my whole. to help me align and connect deeper to my insides and my outsides. this is how I know I belong, even though the colonial, white supremacist, capitalist machine attempts to convince me I am meant to be alone and isolated. I met with one of my peer support mentors last week who validated for me that it’s a good thing I am actively experiencing this collective grief and rage, rather than distance from it; that it’s good to tune into humanity. I need you, and we need each other to remind us of our shared humanity, our collective bodies and existence, to support the liberation and well-being of palesteen and of all living beings. 🍉🤍🇵🇸 • @sarahmusa 💚 100% proceeds to gaza relief

M O T H E R E A R T H holds us through the seasonal cycles of life and death, across time, land, and space; through devastation, loss, and grief; through change. how do we honor her sacred, yet hurting land with more care, intention, and deep reverence? can we hold her, as a collective, as she does us? 🪵🐢🪶🌳🌱🌸 thank you @natureplugtours @louthenatureplug for the guided nature walk for friends’ birthday activity! it was so neat to commune with and learn from nature’s intricate network of wisdom. #earthdayeveryday #natureswisdom #decolonizeyourmind #decolonizetheland #collectivewellbeing

🫚 THE ROOT - MULADHARA defined as the “root,” or “support” energy center located at the base of the spine focuses on survival needs, self-preservation, our connection to our bodies, the earth, and how we are in relation to the world 🫚 MANTRAS I am here I belong I love my body and trust its wisdom The earth supports me and my needs Source: @trauma_conscious_yoga_method 🫚 BALANCING HERBS dandelion root , ginger root , ashwagandha 🪷 join us (myself + @cafecinodc) for week ✌🏼 of this 8-week mindfulness series! we will slow down together, to connect with our own energy and bodies to improve our personal and collective well-being. each week will be supported by balancing herbal tea, mindfulness, practice, journaling & conversation. space is cozy, so spots are limited. 1825 18TH ST NW 2ND FLOOR @plntrdc 🔗 sign up above!

GROUNDED amidst TRANSITION 🌷 tuesday, ruled by the planet Mars, is usually the best day of the week to be active, productive, and focused on tasks and to-dos. 🌷joined with the transition into the Spring season (**and Aries season**), which activates the fire in us— the fire to do, to produce, to create— means we also have to remember what helps us feel connected and grounded. 🌷 I am grateful my workplace allowed me to start an initiative called “mindful moments” which invite folks to join biweekly for 15-30 minutes to pause and reflect together. 🌷 today we shared what spring means to us/brings up for us, and what are ways that help us feel connected to ourselves. ⬇️ invitation to respond to these questions in the comments!☺️💌 • • • #transitions #humanbeingnothumandoing #workplacewellbeing #collectivewellbeing #bewell

E N E R G Y via C H A K R A S 🌀 what are chakras? • sanskrit word meaning “wheel” • the energy centers of the body • helps guide our thoughts, feelings, and inner and outer experiences • helps us identify our social and environmental needs • can be open&balanced or blocked&imbalanced at any given time 🌀the 7 chakras: root (muladhara) sacral (swadhisthana) solar plexus (manipuri) heart (anahata) throat (vishuddha) brow/third eye (ajna) crown (sahasrara) 🌀 want to learn how to work with your chakras in community, to feel more connected, balanced, and aligned with yourself and your relationships? ⚡️supported by community convo, mindfulness practice, and herbal tea pairings @cafecinodc 🌀 watch till the end or read two previous posts ☺️🫶🏼

what slowing down means to me: allows me to practice how to be a human being rather than a human doing helps to connect and experience the present moment inside of and around me, and with other people helps me remember how to ground and align as we transition from the hibernation of winter into the active nature of spring join us, @cafecinodc and I, in an 8 week mindfulness series to slow down, together. the space will be supported by herbal tea pairings, guided mindfulness practice, journaling, and conversation. 🔗 sign up for one, more, or all sessions! we start next thursday april 11 7-8:30pm @plntrdc ‘s vibrant and lively space located at 1825 18th st nw, dc, 2nd floor 🌱 please note: • if you attend all 8 sessions, we’ll gift 1 session PLUS a free bag of coffee • the shop is located up a set of stairs, so is not wheelchair accessible • if you are experiencing any cold/flu/covid-like symptoms, please prioritize your recovery and join us another time • • • 🌅 captured from maputo city, mz

MINDFULLY SLOWING DOWN, TOGETHER 🌬️ we live in a fast paced and trauma filled world, demanding so much of our minds, bodies, and spirit. with this, experiences of loneliness and other forms of blocked energy are on the rise. 🪷 join @wellnesswithwing and @cafecinodc for an 8 week mindfulness series, inviting us to slow down together each week to explore one of the chakras and corresponding herbal tea. 🪷 we’ll connect with our energy and body to improve our inner wellbeing and connection with each other, the collective body. 🪷 the space will be supported by herbal tea, guided mindfulness practice, journaling, and conversation. 🪷 DETAILS: starting thursday april 11 7-8:30pm 1825 18th st nw, dc, 2nd floor 🔗 sign up in bio! please note: • if you attend all 8 sessions, we’ll gift 1 session PLUS a free bag of coffee • the shop is located up a set of stairs, so is not wheelchair accessible • if you are experiencing any cold/flu/covid-like symptoms, please prioritize your recovery and join us another time

friends, here is an invitation to P A U S E 🤲🏼 have you check in with yourself today? have you checked in with a loved one? here are some prompts to support you 🤍 today I release... peace lives within me and I am going to exhibit that by... today I spread kindness by... my instruction manual on how to love me would include... my joy is important to me. I will protect it by... . . . #communitycare #mentalhealthmatters #mentalwellness #wellbeing #endthestigma #endgenocide #ceasefirenow

W O R L D S O C I A L W O R K D A Y 🤲🏼 My mom is the reason I am a social worker. It took a few detours to arrive at the decision to pursue this profession, and I am so grateful I did. In 1990, my mom boldly and courageously found a way to leave her hometown of Vũng Tàu, Vietnam. She left behind an abusive partner, an unsupportive family, and the only home she ever knew. With only herself, my older brother who was two years old at the time, and little money saved up, she was chosen among many desperately hoping to make their way to the United States. After six months at a refugee camp in the Philippines, she was on her way to plant roots somewhere in the West. After a a couple of detours herself, my mom began to settle on Piscataway Land, colonially know as Maryland, where she was connected to various social workers from to support our family. As an eventual single mother of three, she had support to navigate social welfare to help us get our basic needs met, like comfortable housing, clothing, and food vouchers; later, counseling and family court. Fast forward to me. My first job out of college was helping Asian residents in my county connect to local resources and provide education on health issues prevalent to our diaspora. It was working with adults around my mom’s age and older to navigate a daunting, highly inaccessible, predominantly English-language health care system that connected the dots for me, and what filled my spirit with meaning and curiosity. Social work seemed like the next best step to continue advocating for health equity and justice, with a focus on mental health in socially marginalized communities. My mom is how I came to be, here; much of the reason I am who I am; and much of my why and my how— why and how I have made the decisions I have along my journey to this day. Today, holding my mom and the depth of my full origin story, warmly in my heart and soul.

O N S O L I T U D E 🌸 as I stretch out of winter mode and welcome in the extended sun and increasing warmth of spring, I reflect on my grappling between solitude and loneliness — text pulled from dr. vivek h. murthy’s book “together— loneliness, health & what happens when we find connection” \solitude “a state of peaceful aloneness or voluntary isolation.” “an opportunity for self-reflection and a chance to connect with ourselves without distraction or disturbance.” “enhances our personal growth, creativity, and emotional wellbeing, allowing us to reflect, restore, and replenish.” “unlike loneliness, solitude is not burdened with shame. rather it is a sacred state.” “[solitude] can feel a bit daunting, even scary...it’s in the grappling that we work through issues, gain clarity about our feelings, and build comfort with ourselves.” “solitude, paradoxically, protects against loneliness.” set against a selfie of me dawning a vintage pink floral dress in an elevator at a dear friend’s wedding celebration in march of 2023. 🌸

The wit(h)nessing of our world has felt heavy, and at times, has me cycle between hopelessness, helplessness, cynicism, fear, and a sense of paralysis. And yet, it has also been a time of greater clarity of my purpose, and deeper integration of all that has led me to now: The calls to action and knowing what I actually can do, what’s in my capacity, choice, and control. The necessity of creating healthier boundaries between how much I consume mindlessly versus how much time I spend mindfully, intentionally connecting with myself and others. The unburdening, and acceptance that I am / we are worthy of love, care, belonging, safety, support. The surrender to deconditioning of deeply ingrained beliefs that no longer serve me is no easy feat, and is worth the discomfort. The internal wisdom and compass that has known the way and will continue to show up authentically and wholeheartedly to my calling. The active inner listening to the urgent calls of not holding back in creativity and (re)imagination. ✨ What is bringing you a sense of clarity and purpose as our collective reckoning continues?

🤲🏼 I K I G A I 🤲🏼 what gives your life worth, meaning & purpose? I did a mini exercise the other night on @zenbusiness to hone in on what really matters to me, my #ikigai, and the result as shown in the reel: to support people feel less alone in their healing, help guide them towards connecting more within and returning home to their whole, true selves, and provide space for slowness, calm, & well-being. this is a moment that calls us to come together more than ever. the powers that be thrive on us being in isolation, burnt out, afraid, swimming in grief; drifting apart from our collective calling to show up and be in support of one another’s survival, liberation, and healing. we need each other to feel seen, held, heard, nourished, and nurtured. to feel like we belong with each other, here and now. 🕊️ curious to share therapeutic space with myself and others across the collective? offerings for virtual individual therapy & community well-being gatherings, coming soon! #collectivewellbeing #mentalhealth #communitycare #freepalestine 🇵🇸

POV: last friday, a spring like day in the middle of winter. the woes of climate change, of our global existence on fire. I partly strutted and partly dragged myself about all day— my heart aching, breaking, burning with rage, and grieving for my internal landscape changing by the day, my external relations warping, and the witnessing of our collective humanity wading in denial, dissociation, desensitization, and avoidance of the immense suffering and erasure of children, families, and whole cultures outside the Western de/illusion. I felt/feel immobilized by the pain, by my privilege, by the role of being a woman, here and now. I feel disgusted and angered by “business as usual” and needing to pay into a system that validates my rights to practice as a mental health professional, while maintaining complicit in the face of g3n0cid3. I’m looking at you #naswsocialworkers (a building anger that I’m still trying to put words and actions towards. thank you for the work of @dopeblack_socialworker @decolonizingtherapy @inclusivetherapists) how I’m making sense of and processing this deep grief and pain is connecting with the spirit, art, and stories of p@l3stin3. 🙏🏼🇵🇸 I wear @nolcollective to honor and embody resistance and female strength (tatreez tee), and to be a walking reminder that rest (the tote) is a privilege AND a necessary act of resistance. I’ve been reading, learning, and reflecting across social media and webinars. also this deeply moving book by @susanabulhawa has been a most welcome and hopeful bedtime companion— helping me to process and channel my rage and helplessness towards heart-centered action. I remember to take in what’s in front of me, and to check in with my heart. I stand with p@l3stin3 and call us all in to stand on the right side of peace, of now, tomorrow, and history. 🇵🇸🍉🕊️❤️‍🔥 #ceasefirenow #fromtherivertothesea #freepalestine

2023 marked my first full year established as @wellnesswithwing 🥹🕊️ it was a year committed to curiosity, experimentation, community building, stretchy growth and learning, and arriving at a place that gently told me I needed to pause, listen deeply, and rest. rest to be able to grieve, to gather all the tender, vulnerable pieces of myself once more, and to help me gain deeper clarity and intention as I remember the courage within to flow forward. including still feeling out my relationship to social media 🫠 2024, I’m ready 🤍 photos in no particular order: 1. me before leading my @accessibleyogaschool 200hr practicum! I’ve still got a little over 30 hours to go! 2. a collage of all that centering joy collective offered, and the beautiful soul connections who joined us! 3. with tearful relief and joy in myself, I passed my clinical licensure exam— a long time coming, and yet right on time. 4 & 5. I had the honor of being invited to speak on a panel with other bipoc mental health professionals at @ccat_health conference! @jas_inflow and I were also able to offer a healing movement and sound session for the attendees!!! 6. @discoverpulse continued to be a sacred space of healing for me during a year of great pain, retraumatization, adrenal fatigue, and suffering. zero balancing with wajida has truly been the gentle medicine I needed. 7. intentional we made its debut with two episodes (so far… a lesson learned of being honest about my solo capacity) and was listened to and downloaded 75 times within a 5 month period! 8. how 75% of 2023 looked/felt like to me… grateful for my therapist, peer support coaches, and dear dear friends who consistently guided me back towards my strength and light. 9. centering joy collective’s last event of the year where I guided a creative reflection and meditation around grief and gratitude. 10. when I co-hosted @mindfulqueer ’s wind down 🪩 disco event and led a guided meditation!

Centering Joy Collective is back! We invite you to join us on 💜 Sun Nov 19 from 4-5:30 @yogaheightsdc in Takoma Park 💜 for a community gathering to reflect and heal around the themes of grief— what we want to acknowledge and release— and gratitude— what we want to thank and harvest. Jasmine of @flowstate_sounds will be guiding relaxing sound bathe, and I will be guiding a mindfulness practice and creative journaling exercise. We intend to provide a space for people of color and queer identifying folx to feel supported and held in community and discover ways to cultivate gratitude during these challenging times. 💜 Eventbrite registration link in bio!

🇵🇸🕊️#CEASEFIRE NOW The other night, I woke up startled. Apparently, so did my mom, and a few other friends I spoke to later that day. Today, I woke up from a nap, lightly trembling, heart aching, on the verge of tears. On my birthday this past Sunday (when this photo was taken) I broke out in tears (again) when pausing before blowing out my candle. I immediately wished for ceasefire, for peace in the world, peace in my life, the lives of my loved ones, the lives of all; peace for the spirits of those whose physical presence on earth is no longer. I’ve been moving through shock, rage, and deep sadness, and have been alchemizing all that to fuel movement in my body, my spirit, my actions. Our presence, our voice, our actions MATTER NOW, more than ever. Here are some personal guidelines and supports that have kept me afloat & accountable: Remember “Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” Attune to my individual capacity as I navigate staying informed, educated, action-oriented, and present & grounded in my being. - How does my/your body return to felt safeness when feeling triggered? - Somatic check (see @collective_rest @kimsaira @with.meenadchi) - Read @jamilareddy reminders during times of crises, as a fellow highly sensitive person. Identify and share credible sources of information (not exhaustive): @sbeih.jpg @muna.elkurd15 @eye.on.palestine @imamomarsuleiman @jewishvoiceforpeace @gabormatemd @theslowfactory Exercise Empathy— @ayeshaophelia: “We can hold two truths at one time. We can care about the Jewish community and the devastation in Gaza. Trying to raise coherence for myself and the collective” Action - Call your Congress representatives and demand ceasefire NOW. We must stop resources being sent to the Israeli military, and allow aid to enter Gaza. - Donate if you can for humanitarian aid to assist the people of Gaza. - If it’s in your spiritual practice, pray (words from @jumakae). Or even sing as @adriennemareebrown encourages. - Hold conversations and gather support from/with your people, near and far. #ceasefirenow #istandwithpalestine #freepalestine #callforpeace #endgenocide

R E M E M B E R L O V E ;words for tender times. an invitation to return to, and anchor in how we each and collectively define, practice, learn, and act in, with and around love. in awe and grateful to have been in warm, familiar-like, communal space last night with @cleowade @symonedsanders @mahoganybooks @bumbleforfriends ♥️ I jot down so many nuggets of wisdom and heart-full insights and gems. such a beautiful shared experience with my darling friend and all the lovers there! reading through #rememberlove truly feels like a friend holding me through the tenderest of times 🥲 what a gift. (peep the last slide when jasmine and I met @cleowade in oxford mississippi for her heart talk, #courageouslovetour in 2018!)

from one of my guides to me, to you: “may you remember that there is an entire world ready to share your love.” 🤍

listened in on some of the collective trauma summit speakers today, including @miamingus, who posed the question: 🌊 how do we get free together? on her blog, leaving evidence, she also writes: 🌊 we must leave evidence. evidence that we were here, that we existed, that we survived and loved and ached. evidence of the wholeness we never felt and the immense sense of fullness we gave to each other. evidence of who we were, who we thought we were, who we never should have been. evidence for each other that there are other ways to live—past survival; past isolation. 🌊 I’m receiving this medicinal wisdom, a beautiful reminder as I come undone from the stuckness and stillness of the past several months into a breaking open, inviting in new beginnings and curiosity. 🎥: tulum in july

G R O W T H 🌱 I am so proud of my growing patience as a plant parent, I mean look at these healthy roots 🥹 I’ve been feeling daily joy waking to the growth all around me, and inside myself, even in the most micro of moments. gentle, loving kindness, compassion, and forgiveness have been my most welcome sidekicks, along with some heart warming reads. spoken words from ~affirmations for turbulent times~ by @sarahpeytonauthor: may I breathe deeply and feel peaceful inside, no matter how chaotic and quickly-changing the outer world is. may I hold with compassion the ways that my inner world and the outer world come together. 💚

my girl 🐶 would’ve been 14 today. the second slide was from last year 🥲 as I’ve been moving through some big, challenging life transitions, I’ve missed having my little companion who always offered emotional support and unconditional lovin’. appreciating and receiving @gisellebuchanan words on grief 🤍 “WE GRIEVE BECAUSE WE HAVE LOVED. WE GRIEVE BECAUSE WE HAVE KNOWN BEAUTY. WE GRIEVE BECAUSE WE HAVE HELD MEANING. WE GRIEVE BECAUSE WE HAVE IMAGINED POSSIBILITY. ALL THESE THINGS STILL EXIST FOR US ON THE OTHER SIDE. I AM CHOOSING TO LET MY GRIEF BRING ME CLOSER TO MY HEART.”

D U A L I T Y 🕊️ exploring theme of duality today, as it came up in my readings from @jivanaheyman yoga revolution last night and my therapy client call an hour ago. (shoutout to the thorough learnings and enriching resources offered through @accessibleyogaschool) 🩵 thank you to my client for sharing her words and experience of FIGHTING and FLOWING through challenge. 💌 so I ask, how can we hold with loving curiosity and compassion the duality and reality of our lives? that two things can be true at once? . . . #thoughtfultuesday #grounding #healing #selflove #selfcare #collectivecare #grief #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

🕊️this part of my life is called (returning to, and re-rooting in) peace. -being with the sun, the earth, bodies of water -finding joy in my own company again -feeling joy in connections that foster safeness -taking much rest and slowness -adorning myself with goodness, inside and out -moving my body more, moving out internalized stress and stagnancy -attuning my nervous system with soul-nourishing music 💌what does being in, feeling at, or returning to peace look like for you? . . . #mindfulmonday #grounding #healing #selflove #selfcare #collectivecare #grief #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #bipocmentalhealth #asianmentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

“grief is the price of love.” { @valariekaur : see no stranger a memoir and manifesto of revolutionary love } august 30 is grief awareness day. ❤️‍🩹 I’ve been moving through grief: of my dog of parts of me dying + reborn of relationships taking on new forms of the stories of my bones— recovering from lineages old / decades old / months old / weeks old pain + hurt of collective wounds ❤️‍🩹 ways I’ve been tending to my grief journey: - crying + being witnessed - receiving support of all kinds - zero balancing energy medicine (learning the story of my bones) - spiritual / ancestral consultation - indigenous internal medicine - connecting with nature’s gifts - writing - connecting with my inner children - being gentle + kind to myself - therapy + emdr - slow days with abundant rest - allowing myself to experience joy + laughter amidst the heartbreak 💌 do any of these resonate with you? how else do you attend to + nurture your grief? { 🎵 music credit : DAO - YU + the birds of dc } . . . #griefawareness #healing #selflove #selfcare #collectivecare #grief #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

this is what grief and joy can look like. “grief is evidence of love.” spent sunday in local loving company: 🌼 a mindful dosing, meditation, and sound bath with @comfyp @holisticdante : a beautiful gift that helped guide me through my grief story and transformed it to one of hope again. 🌼 dupont circle’s farmers market : helper in reminding me I deserve to feel joy and invite in more of what sparks that. 🌼 maryland’s plant fest @plantsalive : a lush, vibrant experience reminding me of the generosity of plants and people. I am grateful to commune with open hearted people, plants, and the unseen supports all around, especially during these weeks and months of heartbreak and ache, of ongoing transformation, and grief tending— language I originally learned from @hollytruhlar during the early days of the pandemic and what I will be writing / speaking about more in the days to come. sending all peace, compassion, and ease through all that life is presenting at your heart’s door. . . . #mindfulmonday #grounding #healing #selflove #selfcare #collectivecare #grief #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

✨I was invited to be a panelist in partnership with Community Catalyst for BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month. The discussion today centered mental health and burnout of community-based organizations and direct service workers in the vaccine and public health space, specifically related to COVID-19 fatigue. ✨A timely panel, I am grateful to have been part of such a powerful, vulnerable, and deeply insightful conversation with other women of color mental health providers. ✨We shared personal pandemic stories, identified the impacts of collective, intersectional trauma, named the challenges of maintaining self care while also caring for others, and how our identities influenced our paths in the helping profession. ✨I’m looking forward to broadening and continuing the conversation with these women and the dedicated community health workers at the VEAP Conference next month in New Orleans! [Community Catalyst’s Vaccine Equity Access Program (VEAP) works to address vaccine hesitancy and increase vaccination coverage among BIPOC populations experiencing disparities in the United States. Community Catalyst partners with community-based organizations to develop and implement effective health communication and community engagement strategies designed to increase adult vaccination confidence and acceptance, with a focus on COVID-19 and influenza vaccine confidence.] . . . #bipocmentalhealth #bipocmentalhealthmonth #healtrauma #traumarecovery #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth

🕊️ Mid year/Full 🌝 check-in: What has felt transformative for you lately? For me, I could not have predicted that all of the heart-bending, deeply challenging, and transformative experiences of the past 6-8 months would all culminate into what I’ve been working towards and waiting for. I feel so emotional, mostly excited to share about the collaborative projects I have coming up with folks and orgs doing work rooted in racial equity, restorative justice, wellness and health justice. I’ll have the opportunity to facilitate mental health and movement workshops across communities, locally and nationally! I will also continue connecting with other local BIPOC/AAPI-focused grassroots visionaries! 🕊️ Follow here for updates, upcoming events and general life shares! . . . #mindfulmonday #grounding #healing #selflove #selfcare #collectivecare #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

what will you remember and embody within yourself today/this week ahead? 🌞🕊️ these resonate with me: I am enough I am worthy of love and acceptance I will surround myself with people who have my best interest at heart Everything I need to feel loved is inside of me I accept myself . . . #affirmations #mantras #grounding #healing #selflove #selfcare #collectivecare #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

🤍🎙️In this solo episode, I share a bit about the dream and vision that birthed Intentional We, the podcast, to being. I speak about how inspired I am by the connections I have made throughout my travels, work, and personal life; how healing and wellness are at the intersection of what I am passionate about and how that leads me to being in deep presence with others; how Intentional We is a love letter to my younger selves; and a way for learning with and from community.  ✨Intentional We can be heard, downloaded, and subscribed to on @spotify and @applepodcasts! 🔗 See link in bio! . . . #healing #collectivecare #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

✨ Our Healing Movement and Sound event last Sunday was magical! ✨Jasmine @flowstate_sounds and I are so grateful for the deep presence of those who came to move, rest in relaxing sound and vibrations, and reflect with us in the light and airy @yogaheightsdc studio! 🌞 We set an intention of connecting primarily with our root chakra. As we move towards the summer solstice, the reflection was: What might you need to help ground and root yourself in this season, and what it might bring? ✨I felt especially moved by the distance some folks traveled to join us, and a poem shared by a new friend at the end. She then admitted she had NEVER written in the way she did until our event 🥹 ✨Centering Joy Collective is excited to continue envisioning and offering experiences for POC across the DMV, with collective engagement and support in 🧠 + 💛! Follow here for updates @wellnesswithwing or DM me your email for CJC newsletter updates 🤗

This season of my life calls me to begin again towards reclaiming what brings pleasure and joy to my life. Yesterday I delighted myself in a relatively short solo date, viewing @rose_inks exhibit and collaborative art market. I felt so moved by this artist’s vibrancy, playfulness with the human form, and range in expressions of embodied connection with self and others. 💖 As a practitioner and ongoing learner of somatics and other body based healing approaches, I appreciated the exhibit’s focus and statement: ‘What can we learn when we slow down and truly listen to our bodies? What sources of power, healing and knowledge may be revealed when we release long held judgment and embrace who we are, exactly as we are? “Embodied” explores what genuine connection inside of us looks like - the relationship with our physical bodies and our energetic selves. The use of forms, figures and vibrant colors are showcased as a celebration of this relationship, which is the longest and most consistent one we will ever have. These pieces investigate the deep connection of mind and body and importance of cultivating self-love through mediums spanning painting to printmaking and most recent endeavor of metal working.’ @rose_inks . . . #therapeuticthursday #somaticexperiencing #energyhealing #embodiment #embodied #somatics #healtrauma #traumarecovery #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

“Joy is an act of resistance.” -Toi Derracott Scroll through to learn more about what inspired the vision of Centering Joy Collective, a collaboration and offering of love with my dear friend Jasmine of @flowstate_sounds 💜🥹 If you are a POC in the DC/MD/VA area and feel called to connect and heal with others in community, 🔗 visit my link in bio to learn about our event this Sunday, June 11! We will be moving, breathing, resting in sound, and journaling together 🙌🏻 • • • #yogaheights #joy #energyhealing #soundhealing #embodiment #somatics #healtrauma #traumarecovery #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

💌 A note on me and my healing journey: I am incredibly grateful for being selected to receive an extended solo session with @weareauraaura, which took place today! This timely experience was incredibly aligned, potent and moving. To be seen, read and understood through my aura, capturing the essence of my recent and now, to a tee— such a gift, Eileen, thank you. I feel deeply affirmed that my journeying through the trenches of survival mode for the past six months has been taking a turning point as of late, and I AM COMING THROUGH! Coming through with Renewed energy A return to more being, rather than doing A return to my flow state and intuitive Self Prioritizing trust within rather than outside myself Surrender ✨ It can be hard to believe and see that there is another side to the pain, challenges, and heavy emotions at times. What I have learned, relearned and carry with me are these reminders: Everything is temporary Practicing self compassion, kindness and patience go a long way I am loved, cared for and supported and do not have to struggle alone Mutual, collective care is vital ✨ To connect and collaborate around wellness and support group offerings, visit my link in bio! ✨ #humanatmosphere #mindfulmonday #energyhealing #embodiment #somatics #healtrauma #traumarecovery #ancestralwisdom #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

I am excited to share this upcoming event, Healing Movement & Sound, held by myself and my dear friend, co-founder of Centering Joy Collective, and sound healer, Jasmine. Join Centering Joy Collective (CJC) on Sunday, June 11 at 2pm at Yoga Heights Studio in Shaw, DC! 
 We will be guiding an afternoon of gentle movement, group journaling, and a relaxing sound bath. 💛🔗 Link in bio to sign up! Feel free to pass along to a loved one as well! CJC co-creates spaces with people of color to rest, reflect, and connect in community, though pranayama (breath work), yoga and gentle movement, sound healing, and joyful experiences. This initiative is based in DC and MD and was co-founded by Wing Bui of @wellnesswithwing and Jasmine Berry of @flowstate_sounds.

After the long, reflective pause over the past months, I am truly honored and giddy about sharing an update about my podcast project, Intentional We, which was set to launch this past January. Part of my journey of healing and embodying my true nature, including my Southeast Asian roots has been through quality time and cultivating connections with other Asian folx across the diaspora, in real life and online. 🤍 One of my IRL besties, soul sisters, and boss boos, Yoo-Jin Kang, is also the first guest I wish to share on Intentional We. ✨ Tomorrow at 12pm EST, I will be releasing our conversation on Community & Heart Centered Healing. 🤍 In our conversation, Yoo-Jin shares: * About navigating post college life, healing and career transitions * What it means to practice heart and value centered living * The importance of interdependence * Radical self care and accountability as integral to community care * Healing shame through self compassion * How to create spaces of felt belonging * How to build tolerance for the good things in life ✨ Most intimately, we giggle and share about how we met and continue to sustain our love filled friendship over time! Intentional We can be heard, downloaded, and subscribed to on @spotify and @applepodcasts! 🔗 See link in bio for more deets!

It’s been a minute, so I wanted to take some time today and later this week to reintroduce myself! 🕊️ My name is Wing, founder of Wellness with Wing, and I’m based on Anacostan Land (DC). I want to take a moment today to honor the month of May being Asian Pacific American Heritage month. I am a 2nd generation Vietnamese American who was born and raised in Piscataway Land (MD). I’ve been journeying along trying to reconnect more with myself and my ancestral roots. Lately, it’s been a painful intersectional experience of healing through ancestral, generational wounds, feeling disconnected from my body and slowly (re)learning how to reconnect and embody all that makes me whole. I look forward to continuing to practice, offer and connect in the space of mental health and wellness with community and in my own life, sharing that journey here. I invite you to be in connection and community with me along the way! 🤍✨🕊️ . . . #aapiheritagemonth #mindfulmonday #embodiment #somatics #healtrauma #traumarecovery #ancestralwisdom #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

🧠 February 6th is #TimetoTalkDay, worldwide! Why is it important? 🕊️ To help people open up to talking about mental health, and aimed towards reducing the fear and stigma, and towards understanding it’s ok to reach out and talk about mental health struggles Some loving notes: 🕊️ You have permission and deserve to speak your truth; seek out supportive and trusted connections to hold space with you to express yourself 🕊️ We CAN change the narrative and normalize mental health conversations and help seeking 🕊️ You are not alone. Ever. For more information about Time to Talk Day, please visit https://nationaltoday.com/time-to-talk-day/ . . . #grounding #healing #mindfulmonday #embodiment #somatics #healtrauma #traumarecovery #ancestralwisdom #medicine #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

🕊️ Last Friday night, Jasmine of @flowstate_sounds and I hosted our 3rd Centering Joy Collective gathering, this one titled, Sip & Journal (mocktail recipe @holisticrendezvous; cocktail @diversedinners) 🕊️ We gathered with 8 others to invite ease together after a long week, to connect with each other, to reflect back on 2022, and to dream forward and set intentions for 2023. 🕊️ As I continue to sit and process through the tragedies in CA over the days of Lunar New Year, I remember the warm supportive space we held and will continue to hold, and I feel less alone in allowing these feelings to flow. 🙏🏻🫶🏻 🎙️ Voiceover was part of the meditation I recorded for our gathering: “Gratitude to your breath for filling your being, your mind, body, and spirit with life. This precious vessel that allows you to move about the world to share your gifts and receive love and abundance. The late Vietnamese monk, Thich Nhat Hanh, said ‘To begin anew is to look deeply and honestly at ourselves, our past actions, speech and thoughts and to create a fresh beginning within ourselves and in our relationships with others.” “Living is a joy. Dying in order to begin again is also a joy. Starting over is a wonderful thing, and we are starting over constantly.’ I have returned. ‘I am home. In the here, in the now.’” . . . #fridayflow #grounding #healing #selflove #selfcare #collectivecare #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

I spent this past MLK weekend and day in and around Atlanta, GA. I was shook and moved to my core while experiencing the @ctr4chr. So much learned, relearned, unlearned… so much history, tragedies, injustices, sacrifices, and lessons, to continue reflecting on, practicing, processing, understanding, and integrating into the ways I live, breathe, build my character, and be. To witness history then, presently now, there’s much to be done to carry forth the legacy of our great leaders, models, and ancestors. Theirs are words and actions that influence and uplift community wellbeing, peace, justice and equity. Who’s in? ✊🏻🤍🕊️ 🔊 Quote by John Lewis, read aloud . . . #mlkday #johnlewis #grounding #healing #embodiment #somatics #healtrauma #traumarecovery #ancestralwisdom #medicine #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

I am excited to announce that I have been accepted into the Milestone Circles program at the Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center! Milestone Circles is a 12-week program that provides women entrepreneurs with the access, resources, and knowledge they need to grow. Over the next 12 months, Milestone Circles will support more than 1,000 women and their businesses! This program remains free for entrepreneurs. To apply or learn more, visit https://thecenter.nasdaq.org/milestone-circles/ #MilestoneCircles #WomenEntrepreneurs #WomenInBusiness #WOCInBusiness #AAPI @nasdaqcenter

What’s by your bedside? 💤 For me, usually a candle, my journal, mini air purifier, and a few books 🤓 I’ve started The Artist’s Way and am loving the morning pages, so having it by my bedside is perfect for waking up and getting started with writing. I also try to read a few pages before bed rather than scroll through my phone! . . . #creativity #grounding #healing #selflove #selfcare #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

2 0 2 3 ✨🕊️ Joyful, healing and reflective new year wishes to you all! I’m happy to share some of my personal intentions for this year, and continuing with some soulful work intentions. After much needed space from business things, I am furthering grounding myself in my ethos of slowing down, which means intentionally working with this platform at my pace to share resources and insights, not to be sucked into the noise of social media gains and what that demands. ✨though thank you so much to my little over 100 followers since August 2022 🥰. thank you for seeing me and supporting me thus far✨ I also intend to uplift the healing and wellness work and voices of persons of the global majority. I love @themantraco, founded by an Asian American woman who appreciates astrology just as much as I do! I’m excited to be sharing more updates in the coming weeks as I prepare to release my first official podcast episode of Intentional We! Visit the link in my bio to listen to the trailer 😍 . . . #mindfulmonday #affirmations #mantras #grounding #healing #selflove #selfcare #decolonizeyoga #aapi #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

GIFT, G.L.A.D. 💝 For much of the world, this month, and particularly this weekend, are filled with holiday celebrations, gatherings, gifts, and travel. For many, a mix of emotions may arise. Our individual and collective experiences of grief are valid and real, especially seeing the end of the year inching closer and recognizing how change has impacted our lives. We may experience personal/relational/familial grief due to loss of loved ones, traditions or other familiar aspects to our lives. 💝 One gift I invite you to try for yourself is the gift of G.L.A.D. 💝 This grounding technique will take a few moments and invites reflection. It could also feel supportive to try this with someone else! Gratitude: reflect on one thing you are grateful for Learned: reflect on one thing you learned today (about yourself, a new fact or skill) Accomplishment: reflect on one thing you accomplished today (making your bed, cooking a meal, calling a friend) Delight: reflect on one thing that brought you an experience of joy, sense of delight or curiosity today 💝 Wherever and however you are, remember, you are not alone. Wishing you warmth and self-compassion as you flow through these last days of 2022. 🫶🏻🕊️ . . . #flowfriday #holistic #holidayseason #grounding #grief #healing #selflove #selfcare #decolonizeyoga #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

C A C A O 🍫 As the weather has gotten colder here on the East Coast, this Oaxacan cacao hot chocolate has been my go to nightcap treat a few nights a week. Buenas noches 🌛🫶🏻 💌 Any yummy warm beverages you enjoy before bed, especially during the winter time? I’d love to know below! 👇🏻 . . . #therapeuticthursday #healing #selflove #selfcare #decolonizeyoga #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

2022 READS 📚 I’m so giddy to share some essence captured from a most lovely indie bookstore I visited in Puebla, MX this summer- Profética 😍! & of course these reads from my 2022 bookshelf, shared in no particular order: ✨Polysecure @jessicafern411 ✨See No Stranger @valariekaur ✨Self Care Package @londrelle ✨Crying in H Mart @jbrekkie ✨Clarity & Connection @yung_pueblo ✨ Decolonizing Non-Violent Communication @with.meenadchi 💌 I share my reflections on each in my story/highlights! 💌 Have you read any of these? Or perhaps curious to read any? Would love to know your impressions below!👇🏻 . . . #wednesdaywisdom #wellnesswednesday #readinglist #healing #selflove #selfcare #decolonizeyoga #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

I’m excited to be working with @seshgroups as a way to increase accessible, affordable and supportive mental health care options for people. I appreciate working with a values aligned platform that offers such a wide range of support group topics! How are sesh groups accessible? WELL, they are virtual and welcome people from all around the world to join in! For the months of December and January, I will be facilitating a couple of sesh groups, including: ✨ “Health and Well-being in the AAPI Community” (Mondays @ 8:30PM EST) ✨ “Weathering Seasonal Depression” (Sundays in January @ 3PM EST). 🔖 Get an extra month of Sesh free with code 😍: WINGSESH *Please note, though led by licensed professionals, these are NOT therapy groups. They can be a great supplement to individual therapy!* . . . #wellnesswednesday #healing #selflove #selfcare #supportgroup #sesh #decolonizeyoga #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

PARSVA BALASANA (thread the needle) ✨emotional relief, grounding, calming ✨increases range of motion in spine ✨stimulates internal organs please note: this video is sped up a bit. I take about 5-6 full rounds of breath per side/per asana 🤗 ✨use a pillow, blanket or block to support neck if pain/injury OR forego this pose— it’s important to listen to what our bodies may or may be up for, especially if injuries or discomfort exists! If unsure whether to try or not, please consult a licensed bodyworker/medical provider/physical therapist/chiropractor 🤍 ✨I am not a trained yoga teacher, though I have been practicing since 2009 and am certified in the @trauma_conscious_yoga_method which I integrate in my therapy offerings! 🧘🏻‍♀️ p.s. I love my antimicrobial, jute yoga mat by @abundantlyashley— this color is pearl princess! . . . #mindfulmonday #moonday #tcym #traumaconsciousyogamethod #healing #selflove #selfcare #decolonizeyoga #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #mindfulmovement #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

KAKI PRANAYAMA (Beak Breath) ✨ For grounding, ease anxiety, activates parasympathetic nervous system, and opens up the heart chakra! To start: ✨hold palm a few inches from face 1 way to try breath: ✨inhale with “O” shaped mouth exhale through nose invitation to also: ✨notice the texture, sound and temperature of your breath. ✨notice the outline of your palm. I rested my other hand on my lower abdomen to help follow my breath too. ✨I’ll be posting more videos like this as I brush up on my @trauma_conscious_yoga_method training! 🌈also, love this tank from @chnge that I wore all during pride this year! . . . #therapeuticthursday #breathwork #tcym #traumaconsciousyogamethod #healing #selflove #selfcare #decolonizeyoga #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

R I T U A L 🕊️ Pulling cards has been a practice I loved in the past, especially when I had an office job. It would be part of my morning ritual before diving into the 9-5 grind. Recently I pulled these out and dusted them off to begin again. As someone who has worked from home for the past 3 years, it’s been hard for me to stick to a consistent flow. Excited to reintegrate this practice into my morning ritual. Today, as I shuffled these @louise_hay_affirmations (gifted by @lotusinaseaoffire in 2019!) and @innercompasscards (kids edition hehe) I asked for guidance and these are what I pulled: 🕊️ Divine wisdom guides me; l am guided throughout this day in making the right choices. Divine intelligence continuously guided me in the realization of my goals. I am safe. 🕊️ Hero magic spell; Is that another superpower?! You’re a hero, every minute, every hour. You’re a real hero. Did you know that? As a hero, you can overcome setbacks and obstacles. For this, you’ve been given super powers: you’re clever, brave and you don’t give up easily. But being kind to others, is also a superpower. And being grateful. And while we’re at it, let’s not forget the power of your thoughts. By trial and error, you can reach all your goals. Nothing can stop you. In fact, you don’t even need to do something special. You are already the hero as long as you keep believing yourself! Do either these resonate with you today? Share below 🤗✨🫶🏻 . . . #wellnesswednesday #wednesdaywisdom #affirmations #healing #selflove #selfcare #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor#mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

💌 Pulse check on this Friday: How is your heart, friend? How is your body? How is your mind? How is your spirit? Timely audio: “I’m tired, I’m exhausted.” Some rescheduled meetings today meant earlier naps! I’m becoming more aware of my need to create more of an intentional, proactive rest practice rather than having rest be a reactive care strategy, while welcoming both/and! ✨🫶🏻 Part of my rest practice today and through the weekend is to take a break from social media. I’ll hop back on, on Monday ✨🫶🏻 Sending warmth and care wherever you are in the world and along your healing journey 🕊️ . . . #fridayflow #fridayfeels #healing #selflove #selfcare #yinenergy #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor#mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

D E C E M B E R ❄ I don't know about you but this year... even the month of November alone felt like I have lived a number of lifetimes. So much internal and external witnessing of death, rebirth and renewal. I am going to hold myself this month with gentle accountability so that I do not feel the pressure to be consumed by what I've experience as the rush, noise and capitalistic nature of the holiday season and new year... I instead wish to gift myself the presence of stillness, rest, deep reflection, and hibernation. I gift myself, and whomever would like to receive, these affirmations for the month ahead: ❄ I have everything I need within myself. ❄ I trust the path uniquely for me. ❄ I am allowed to slow down and rest. Which one(s) resonate with you? I'd love to know, below 😊👇 . . . #therapeuticthursday#affirmations #mantras #healing #healtrauma #trauminformed #traumarecovery #selflove #selfcare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #normalizementalhealth #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

“When love is your vibration, your energy is your protection.” 🫶🏻✨ @londrelle I tried my hand at my friend’s sound bowl focusing on the heart chakra. I’m a very sensory oriented person and sounds, especially solfeggio frequencies (!) 9 out of 10 times soothes and grounds me regardless of what distress/re-traumatized response I may be in. (This is a personal knowing and truth, so what may work for me may not for you.) Here I also recite heart centered affirmations from @londrelle deeply thorough guide on the 7 chakras: self care package 💛✨ I am rich in love. I vibrate radiant light. I forgive myself. I open my heart and release grief. I love myself. ✨What heart centered affirmations resonate with you in this moment? I invite you to share below! 🫶🏻 . . . #mindfulmonday #affirmations #mantras #healing #selflove #selfcare #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #together #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor#mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

🌿 Part of my personal healing journey has been unlearning colonized mindsets and beliefs, and learning how to connect with the land, Mother Earth with deeper care, intentionality, away from harmful practices and acts, as best I can. 💚One action I’m opting for is to not partake in Black Friday, spearheaded by big corporations, who perpetuate capitalism and the overproduction of “goods” that harm our environmental and economic wellbeing. Alternative are to consider shopping Small Businesses on Saturday and/or donate moneys on Giving Tuesday, especially in support of Indigenous/BIPOC owned businesses. 🌿 This Thanksgiving I am holding myself through loving self-compassion as I continue learning how to best honor Indigenous Peoples, especially the Piscataway Conoy Tribal Nation, whose land I was born on and currently occupy. 💚I am in no way an expert, so I am grateful to know of and have access to teachers and guides. 🌿If you feel resonance and called to learn more, I loved learning from Natives Outdoors’ Toolkit for Switching the Narratives of History, how to Decolonize Thanksgiving. 🌿I have added the link in my bio! And will share in my story other ways to support AND feel supported holistically during this season of gathering. . . . #decolonizethanksgiving #decolonizeyourmind #honornativeland #wellnesswednesday #wednesdaywisdom #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #together #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor#mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

P O D C A S T 🎉 Wow, YES! So excited to share widely my podcast, Intentional We. What inspired me to do such a thing, you may wonder? I have felt so moved, grateful, and in awe of the beautiful souls I’ve crossed paths with throughout various chapters of my life. I have felt inspired by their stories, the conversations and experiences that we have shared, AND how we weave wellness and healing in the mix!! 🫶🏻✨ I reflect on how this pandemic has increased a sense of isolation, loneliness, and disconnection. AND I also remember how deeply connected I am, with my evolving Self, my given and chosen family, and my growing community; therefore I am never actually alone. I am reminded of the necessity of collective, intentional community, that can be felt near, far, within and all around. All of the above, along with more personal, embodied experiences [STAY TUNED FOR EPISODE ONE ☝🏻👀] are at the heart of Intentional We. 🎉I invite you to listen to the podcast trailer available now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts! Links in bio! 🎉Please like, download, leave a review, and/or subscribe! 🎉Full length episodes will be launched in January 2023! I’d also love to (re)connect with those who are interested to be in (recorded) conversation with me on Intentional We! 🤍 Thank you for being YOU, and for the ways YOU are showing up in this world. We heal, are brave and nurtured when we can be, together. 🤍Wing P.S. shoutout to @cathy.heller for offering her “Time to Podcast” workshop in September! I really got the BIG nudge I needed to JUST. START. 😍 . . . #mentalhealthpodcast #therapypodcast #newpodcast #wellnesswednesday #wednesdaywisdom #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #together #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor#mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing #intentionalwepod

M I N D F U L M O N D A Y 🪷 MUCH arose this past weekend, physically, spiritually, emotionally, psychologically, that activated unpleasant sensations and experiences. MUCH of which was and still is hard to move through- some stuckness and frustration, too. ✨What’s my care plan? - scheduled a support call with a friend (remembering I am NEVER alone) - name a need and make a request (in this case, space to process individually and a request to respect that space) - set intentional time to journal and work with my internal parts towards forgiveness, compassion and love (#ifs) - recall and practice some of the exercises during @heartoheal101 sound bath event on Saturday (such a beautiful space, right?!), including: 🪷qigong 🪷pranayama (breath work) 🪷ecstatic dance - tantric movement ✨What is one care plan item you have for yourself? I invite you to share below in the comments!👇🏻 Wishing you all a gentle flow into your day and week ahead, and that you ask and receive the support you need. Sending so much care and love. 💖 . . . #mindfulmonday #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #yinenergy #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor#mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

C H A N G E 📣 It is opportune and necessary for womxn of color and bodies of culture to stop playing small to our gifts, our voices and our abilities to act, move and shake up change in this world! We need to continue disrupting the system that is stacked against our health, well-being and prosperity! For our Selves, for and with each other and our descendants! . . . #therapeuticthursday #socialwork #radical #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #traumainformed #medicine #selfcare #yinenergy #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #healersofcolor#mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

🌞 H A B I T I’ve been trying to stay consistent this past week with my morning drinks, including this hot ginger, lemon, and honey water! Sometimes I also add cayenne. I have a sensitive digestive system so this helps soothe my tummy first thing in the morning! Plus the lemon and honey clear out any ickiness in my throat. 💌 What are some new wellness habits you’re trying? . . . #therapeuticthursday #wellness #embodiment #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #medicine #selfcare #yinenergy #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

Éfu Nyaki @efunyaki spoke on mother child bonding at birth and the healing power of being in connection with ancestral lineages and community. The slides highlight some main takeaways. Here are some other refreshers / new information I appreciated: 1. The impact of interrupted movement on development of a child, especially from birth. 2. New perspective on reverence. 3. Affirmation of the need to heal in and with community. Thanks again @theembodylab for gathering such moving, educational speakers last Sunday! ✨ I am excited to integrate these learnings as I create and offer trauma/somatic informed recovery and support programs! ✨ . . . #wellnesswednesday #wednesdaywisdom #embodiment #embodiedhealing #somatics #somatictherapy #somaticattachment #healtrauma #traumarecovery #medicine #selfcare #yinenergy #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

🦋 Last Sunday, I co-facilitated the 2nd Centering Joy Collective Sunday gathering, with intentions of preparing for the cold, darker months ahead. 💛 I appreciate my dear friend, co-founder of CJC and co-facilitator greatly for hosting us and cooking homemade gumbo for the group! She also shared her sound bath gifts to lead us into the circle! 💛 We spoke about Seasonal Affective Disorder and overall impact on mood and changes in needed soothing and coping strategies. It was beautiful to hear resonance across the group and hold space for vulnerability and heart-open conversations. I loved seeing how engaged pairs were during their shares! ✨ Fun facts of how I slowed down and grounded myself for this gathering included: (1) handwriting names with new stationary from @jennibick, and (2) setting up the candle lit circle with a seasonal variation of flowers, pine and berry branches from @traderjoes — not to mention all the snacks. ✨Also special shout-out to @sunshine_for_breakfast for these “Today I choose Joy” affirmation postcards! We invite people to write one to send to themselves or a loved one ☺️ 💛 Overall incredibly grateful for shared community space, overflowing support and the kind hearted words that followed. 💌 Scroll through to read some!

Grateful for free learning opportunities, especially around healing modalities and practices that I really jam with, like yesterdays all day summit hosted by @theembodylab, healing through Somatic attachment therapy. I’ll be sharing some of what resonated with me from the few speakers I was able to listen in to, including Barbara Collier who spoke on developmental trauma. The slides highlight some main takeaways. Here are some other refreshers / new information I appreciated: 1. The vastness and power of our senses-beyond 8!- on how we relate to others. 2. Beyond flight, fight, freeze are flock and fawn as nervous system responses to distress and trauma. 3. Exploration and understanding of sustainable physiology. ✨ I am excited to integrate these learnings as I create and offer trauma recovery programs! ✨ . . . #mindfulmonday #embodiment #somatics #somaticattachment #healtrauma #medicine #selfcare #yinenergy #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

M O V I N G M I N D F U L L Y ✨ Beginning with Ajna Chakra Asana/Balasana - wisdom/child’s pose - for grounding and inviting stretch to psoas, hips and back. ✨ Wrapping up with Savasana - a unifying, grounding asana allowing the body to relax and restore, and helps tend to the spine and back. ✨ Ending on three chants of OM known to activate Sahasrara - crown chakra, with Jnana Mudra - the hand gesture of wisdom, promoting a connection to the higher Self. . . . #traumaconsciousyoga #tcym #mindfulmonday #movemonday #decolonizeyoga #wintersolstice #medicine #selfcare #yinenergy #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #normalizementalhealth #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

Y I N 🖤 my inherent nature is yin, so practicing slowness and rest is literal energy medicine for me. those who may be more inherently yang and fill up when being more active and doing, may experience more challenges during these fall and winter months. nonetheless, both are necessary to make up the wholeness of who we are; our aliveness, in balance, as neither yin nor yang can exist without the other. ☯️ what are some ways you can feed your yin energy? . . . #flowfriday #holistic #wintersolstice #medicine #selfcare #yinenergy #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #normalizementalhealth #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

J O Y 🦋 This was taken earlier in October, when I facilitated my first community event since beginning Wellness with Wing! ✨Centering Joy Collective is an exploratory community initiative a friend of mine and I started to invite intentional connections with other people of color in their late 20s-30s. This came from a need we heard from others seeking spaces to heal and build community with other like-minded and open-hearted individuals; warm, inviting, accessible, therapeutic space where vulnerability is welcome and reflective processing is guided in slowness and support. ✨I am continually moved and uplifted by this line by poet, Toi Derricotte, “Joy is an act of resistance.” This is an inspiration that ignites this collective forward. That through the ebbs, flows and complexities of our human experience—especially as bodies of culture, people of the global majority, yet socially marginalized— how is it we can understand, practice, reclaim, and share joy within ourselves and with each other? I’m excited for the second Centering Joy Collective offering this coming Sunday, and to share reflections received in the days that follow! 🙏🏻🕊️✨ . . . #selfcare #therapeuticthursday #collectivecare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #community #belovedcommunity #joy

N O V E M B E R 🧣 ♥️ my personal affirmations for this month, and others that resonated from @wetheurban @wearpepper @themantraco! (I’m a Scorpio, hehe) 👇🏻what are you wanting/needing to affirm for yourself? I invite you to share below 🤗 . . . #affirmations #mantras #healing #selflove #selfcare #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #normalizementalhealth #destigmatizementalhealth #wellnesswithwing

B E Y O U I celebrated my birthday a couple days ago. 💛 Reflecting on this past year, phew. Many firsts… many endings, many new beginnings, and continuations… I recall the numerous, beautiful experiences that lit me up and broke me open, in ways that felt absolutely stunning, devastatingly heart wrenching, and everything in between. All of those experiences were witnessed by dear friends, strangers and strangers that turned into friends. Bringing the vision of Wellness with Wing to existence is one gift of many that I granted to myself this past year, and I am excited to continue nurturing it and more personal and collective visions to life. With you, in community. Together. . . . #mindfulmonday #healing #selflove #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #normalizementalhealth #destigmatizementalhealth #asianownedbusiness #wellnesswithwing

“It’s better to struggle for what is meaningful and fail than to succeed with ease at what doesn’t matter. Chase an impossible dream and see how fast you can run. Push back against the weight of your burdens and realize how strong you really are. Strive for that distant horizon and discover how far you can go. In the roughest moments, that is where you will feel the grit of life. To enjoy peace, you must endure conflict. To feel victorious, you must face battle. To be able to contend with the world, you must be willing to conquer yourself.” 🕊️ @gfda.co . . . #therapeuticthursday #healing #selflove #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #normalizementalhealth #destigmatizementalhealth #asianownedbusiness #wellnesswithwing

Moments after these were taken, I shifted into a spell of vulnerability in the presence of a trusted nurturer. 🌊 By the water I allowed for what had felt stagnant as fall transitions flowed, to well up, move and release. By the water I was gently reminded I am divinely protected and I can speak it all to Oshun. By the water my beloved friend held me through my tears, reflecting back to me all I am and all I am not. Sitting with these cyclical seasons of releasing, unlearning, learning, processing, integrating, dying, grieving, accepting, repeat… I am reassured that community care is vital to living as the fullest being I know possible. 💙 Interested in being in a community support group / processing circle? ✨I invite us to connect and chat!☝🏻Explore link in bio to learn more, email me and/or schedule a free consult! . . . #therapeuticthursday #healing #mindfulness #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #generationalhealing #breakingcycles #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #normalizementalhealth #destigmatizementalhealth #asianownedbusiness #wocbusiness #wellnesswithwing

✨ On this World Mental Health Day, I would like to share the launch of my mental health consulting business website! This has been a labor of self-love, healing, and moving through hard, unpleasant internal challenges. I am grateful for the endless support along my journey. My heartfelt intention for creating Wellness with Wing is to connect with more people like you and beyond; to explore, collaborate, and engage in co-creating community healing spaces. I am also excited to partner with existing mental health programs to analyze strengths and areas of growth, and work on integrating/adapting mental health and wellness practices that are needed. In the near future, I will also be offering psychotherapy services. I invite you to read more about me and my offerings, and welcome the opportunity to connect more with you and/or anyone you know who comes to mind! ✨ Lastly, a reflective prompt to consider if you feel called: Who is one person I can reach out to for support and/or offer support to today? Sending deep gratitude, < 3 Wing

H O L I S T I C ? 🪷 As a holistic mental health consultant and therapist, I approach my work being mindful, inclusive, and integrative of the 8 dimensions of wellness and yoga philosophy, which helps understand our energy/chakra system. I believe in the importance of being aware, connected and aligned with our internal and external Selves to optimize our overall wellbeing and processes of healing. 🫶🏻🕊✨ . . . #ifs #partswork #energyhealing #alignment #mentalhealth #wellbeing #holistichealing #divinetiming #spirituality #intentionalcommunity #belovedcommunity #healingcircles #mentalhealthawareness #mentalhealthadvocacy #normalizementalhealth #destigmatizementalhealth #asianownedbusiness #wocbusiness #solopreneur #fempreneur #wellnesswithwing

O C T O B E R 🍂 & Autumn Equinox! 💛 What are you harvesting as we flow further into this season of transitions? 🧡 What supports do you have and possibly need (people, resources, etc.) during this time? ✨ I have personally been practicing and expressing more affirmations to myself and with others in my life. Here are a few that feel present for me lately! 👇🏻 Below I invite you to share which ones resonate with you and what affirmations you would like to create for yourself for the month ahead! < 3 Wing

W E L C O M E 🌱🕊🫶🏻 It’s been almost 4 weeks since I’ve left my job as a psychotherapist and transitioned to being a full time solopreneur. This was a choice to take a chance on myself to allow my inner visions, dreams, and wisdom become reality— to be shared and co-created with others. That inner knowing, affirmed by so much externally, seen and unseen, has been consistently evidenced by: D I V I N E T I M I N G I am a highly sensitive, empath who connects best through my senses and energetic frequencies. With that, divine timing has shown up in natural and created sounds in my surroundings at a given time; verbal shares from others that have been very much on theme with my own thoughts and/or something I had learned/read about; visual cues that remind me to slow my pace and drink in the now (I will be OK); the alignment of my actions—my simultaneous healing and shadow work with that of the cosmos. Consistent reminders of how I am on time. I am on the right path. I am here. I am now. Crossing thresholds. Moving towards my purpose. In and with intentional, beloved community. Supports, old and new, flowing into my life as if spirit dropped off an invitation on my behalf. These supports offered answers and further affirmations of my abilities and my gifts, and their willingness to be in communion with me along my journey in the most beautifully giving and receiving ways. I am so incredibly grateful for this life I get to create and witness unfolding. I cannot do this alone and am grateful I don’t have to; for ALL who I have had the absolute honor to share/continue to share it with, I love you. Deeply. I am excited for all that’s to come, and to share it OUT very soon. Thank you for being with me. Here. Now. Together. < 3 Wing

S T A Y T U N E D <3 Wing

T H E L O G O S T O R Y Hiya, I'm Wing! As I envisioned this consulting business, now birthed to life, my intentions were rooted in (1) continuing to hold space for wellness, healing, resource sharing, and education, and (2) cultivating intentional community. I attuned to what felt senses those intentions elicited in me, and what I would want to express and communicate to all of you: calmness, serenity, warmth, connection. 🌱 Green represents earth, nature, heart chakra ☀️ Yellow represents the sun, fire, solar plexus chakra 🌊 Blue represents the sky, water, throat chakra 🕊 White represents light, spirit and the unseen, connection of the chakra energy system Wellness with Wing is a mental health consultant business that emphasizes holistic, therapeutic, experiential, energy focused, and embodied approaches to care, support, and service. Thank you for following along! Let's connect to see how we can work together <3 Wing