Hmong

Having been a crucial organizing member within the Justice for Yia Xiong’s case, and a general supporting community member of Jennifer Yang’s vigil, below lists key dates and events following the incidents. …

The difficulties of cultural competency in healthcare are explicitly discussed in the context of treating Hmong patients in California in Anne Fadiman’s book, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Important issues regarding cultural variations and how they may affect medical outcomes are raised in the book. The National…

The Spirit Catches You And You Fall Down, written by Anne Fadiman and published in 1997, presents a non-fiction narrative of a culture clash between two different worlds with different mindsets on healing the sick. Fadiman introduces Lia Lee, a sick child, and her parents, Foua Yang (mother) and Nao…

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” ― E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly Growing up, my dad and his two brothers had our families live in homes right next to one another. My older uncle lived next door and…

From strictly my own experience and research Is there a correlation between Shamanism, the Paranormal and the UFO/UAP Phenomena? Yes, from my direct experience there is but to varying degrees based on perspective, as everything in the human frame of reference is connected one way or another. Whether we chose to see it or not. In our personal lives this can be…

Sources used will be linked below. Basic background information on the Hmong before I start my story… So the Hmong are traditionally from China as mainstream history likes us to think. But there are countless traditions lost to the Hmong culture that may span and correlate all the way back to ancient Persia and Israel and some theorize that we could…

It was the middle of the night when my husband’s cell phone rang. It was 2001. The cell phones were thick and the buttons were…..actual buttons. My little daughter was still sound asleep, barely one year old. …

When I was very young, around 3 or 4 years old, I had a very large sized bump on the left side of my neck (throat area). I remember it so distinctly because I remember always titling my head to the left so that my short, chin-length, hair could somewhat…

Mindfulness for the mind. The amount of times that I told myself to do something. I overthink and scare myself from actually doing it. I convince myself that I’m not good enough to accomplish that or this. That is the overthinking in me. That is me. What am I doing…