Jo’s Reviews > Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans > Status Update

"Grief is the other side of the coin of love. It is only with deep love that we are even capable of experiencing such deep grief.... Your grief exists to show you that which you love most."

"When we have suffered loss, we are forced to recognize that life is temporary, fleeting, and ever changing. In this fleeting nature, finding what grounds us becomes crucial."

"Knowing that your parents gave up their dreams in order to give you a better chance at living yours has a strange effect on how you think and feel about your own choices."

"One goal of healthy anger expression is to prompt assertive communication, because it takes assertive communication to protect a boundary, to communicate harm that you have experienced, to speak up about unjust and unfair systems, and to self-advocate."

"Crying is not just a way that we express our emotion; it is a biological function that allows us to process stress out of the body. It is a release we often need when we are overwhelmed, scared, or heartbroken. Crying is a part of the language of the body, and it can offer healing in ways that words struggle to do."

"We cannot control, change, or be responsible for the emotions of others.... Our emotions are entirely our own. We are each responsible for our own emotions and how these emotions cause us to act. While we can support and be with each other in our emotions, we cannot take other people's emotions on as our responsibility to fix, regulate, or tame."