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🌿Dr. Marinette Asuncion-Uy, PsyD - Liberation & Clinical Psychologist & licensed in 43 States ✊🏽🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈Decolonial Healing + Inner Child
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06/09/2026

Note on Abuse:
As we unlearn the colonial frameworks, we must hold a difficult truth: our most sacred values — pakikisama, utang na loob, Kapwa — can be weaponized against us, even by those we love.

Remember: Kapwa includes you. You are not separate from the shared self — you are the shared self. And because of this, your safety is never a betrayal of culture.

If you have experienced physical, sexual, or severe psychological violence, you are not obligated to maintain contact for the sake of culture. Sometimes, the most ancestral thing you can do is draw a boundary — to call on lakas ng loob and pakikibaka, that deep courage and resistance already living in your bones.

Sikolohiyang Pilipino does not ask you to endure harm. It asks you to remember who you truly are.

If you are ready to go on a deeper dive, join us at the August workshop:
Link in bio or click here: https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1

Disclaimer: This is for informational & educational purposes only & does not constitute therapy or professional advice. This does not replace personalized therapy or consultation with a qualified mental health professional.

Mental health is influenced by complex factors like our colonization history, discrimination, patriarchy, systemic oppression, racism, educational and economic disparities, sexism, etc., and deeply impacts our psychological well-being. Please explore how these broader societal issues intersect with personal mental health.

In my 20s, I would’ve turned away from these words. I wasn’t ready and I share them now for whoever is.So, before you as...
06/08/2026

In my 20s, I would’ve turned away from these words. I wasn’t ready and I share them now for whoever is.

So, before you ask, “What is wrong with me?”
Pause and ask, “What happened to us?”

So much of what we carry — anxiety, burnout, shame, silence — did not begin with us. It lives in our families, our histories, our migrations, and the ways we were taught to survive.

You are not broken. You are carrying history.
Stop blaming yourself for pain that was never ours alone to hold.

Join us this August inside Unlearning the Colonized Mind 🇵🇭

Link to Register - https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1

Disclaimer: This is for informational & educational purposes only & does not constitute therapy or professional advice. This does not replace personalized therapy or consultation with a qualified mental health professional.

Mental health is influenced by complex factors like our colonization history, discrimination, patriarchy, systemic oppression, racism, educational and economic disparities, sexism, etc., and deeply impact our psychological well-being. Please explore how these broader societal issues intersect with personal mental health.

06/06/2026

As a Filipino American psychologist, I was trained entirely in a colonial framework. I did not learn about Sikolohiyang Pilipino - our indigenous psychology until later on. Just Western tools - that I passed on to my clients.

Here's the problem: Western therapy centers the individual.

But our healing — especially as Filipinos and that includes us in the diaspora — is inseparable from our colonial history, migration story, collective trauma, community, and the racist, oppressive systems we move through every day as a person of color.

That's not a flaw in us. As Audre Lorde said — the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. A framework built on colonialism was never designed to heal the people it harmed. So, when I finally found Filipino Psychology, things shifted.

Because representation isn't enough. Your therapist can look like you and still think in that colonial framework that was never designed to understand you.

You deserve a healer who knows your Kapwa (shared identity) and doesn't pathologize our culture.

And a necessary truth: cultural values like pakikisama and utang na loob are beautiful — and they can be weaponized against you. Kapwa includes YOU. Your safety is a priority. Sikolohiyang Pilipino gives us lakas ng loob (inner courage) and pakikibaka (resistance) — not obligation to endure harm.

Join us this August inside Unlearning the Colonized Mind 🇵🇭
Register here: https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1

Disclaimer: This is for informational & educational purposes only and does not constitute therapy or professional advice. It does not replace personalized therapy or consultation with a qualified mental health professional.

If you’ve been wondering why healing never felt quite right in Western spaces—if you’ve carried utang na loob like a bur...
06/06/2026

If you’ve been wondering why healing never felt quite right in Western spaces—if you’ve carried utang na loob like a burden, or been silenced by hiya—this space is for you.

Together, we will gather not to fix ourselves, but to remember what was once whole. This work grounded in Sikolohiyang Pilipino—a decolonized path of returning to the wisdom of our ancestors, the softness of our younger selves, and the truths that colonization made us forget.

You were never meant to be small.
Join us this August inside Unlearning the Colonized Mind 🇵🇭

Register here: https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1.

Reference:
Pe-Pua, R., & Protacio-Marcelino, E. (2000). Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino Psychology): A legacy of Virgilio G. Enriquez. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 3(1), 49–71.

Disclaimer: This is for informational & educational purposes only & does not constitute therapy or professional advice. This does not replace personalized therapy or consultation with a qualified mental health professional.

Mental health is influenced by complex factors like our colonization history, discrimination, patriarchy, systemic oppression, racism, educational and economic disparities, sexism, etc., and deeply impact our psychological well-being. Please explore how these broader societal issues intersect with personal mental health.

2 days to go...The early bird price for Unlearning the Colonized Mind closes on Monday, June 9 at 6:00 AM ET.This is for...
06/06/2026

2 days to go...
The early bird price for Unlearning the Colonized Mind closes on Monday, June 9 at 6:00 AM ET.

This is for the part of you that has been tired of performing wellness while still carrying the old colonial wound of shame, silence, overworking, and disconnection.

The early bird price is $250 until June 9.
After that, this price closes and does not return.
Come back to kapwa.
Come back to the wisdom your people were taught to distrust.
Come back to the self beneath survival.

Link in bio to register before the early bird closes. 🌿
Or click this link: https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1

Some phrases sound “normal” because we inherited them before we ever questioned them.But when we look closer, we begin t...
06/06/2026

Some phrases sound “normal” because we inherited them before we ever questioned them.

But when we look closer, we begin to see how colonialism shaped the way we speak about language, skin, labor, history, obedience, cleanliness, and even our own capacity to lead.
This is not about shame.

This is about remembering what was taken, unlearning what was planted, and coming back to our kapwa, loob, and ancestral knowing.
Join us this August inside Unlearning the Colonized Mind 🇵🇭
Register here: https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1

Disclaimer: This is for informational & educational purposes only & does not constitute therapy or professional advice. This does not replace personalized therapy or consultation with a qualified mental health professional.

Mental health is influenced by complex factors like our colonization history, discrimination, patriarchy, systemic oppression, racism, educational and economic disparities, sexism, etc., and deeply impact our psychological well-being. Please explore how these broader societal issues intersect with personal mental health.

What if healing was never meant to be done alone? In Sikolohiyang Pilipino, kapwa means more than just "others" — it mea...
06/05/2026

What if healing was never meant to be done alone? In Sikolohiyang Pilipino, kapwa means more than just "others" — it means shared self and shared humanity. It is a deep knowing that your pain, your healing, your story, and your becoming are all connected to the people around you.

Before many of us were taught to become hyper-independent, to suffer quietly, to keep family pain private, or to heal in isolation, our people already understood that the self is relational.

We are shaped by the people who raised us, the silence we inherited, the love we were given, the wounds nobody named, and the communities that either held us or harmed us.

Kapwa reminds us that needing connection does not make us weak — it makes us human. And sometimes, the shame we carry is not personal. It was passed down through systems, families, histories, and survival. Many of the things you were taught to feel ashamed of were never yours to carry in the first place.

If you have been longing for a space where your story does not need to be explained from scratch, you are warmly invited.

Unlearning the Colonized Mind is a three-week workshop in Indigenous Filipino Psychology for those who are ready to explore healing through culture, history, kapwa, family, and decolonization.

Join us inside - link in bio to register or click here: https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1

Come heal in kapwa, come be witnessed, and come remember that you were never meant to carry this alone.

Disclaimer: This content is for informational and educational purposes only and does not constitute therapy or professional advice. It does not replace personalized therapy or consultation with a qualified mental health professional.

3 days to go...The early bird price for Unlearning the Colonized Mind closes on Monday, June 9 at 6:00 AM ET.This is for...
06/05/2026

3 days to go...
The early bird price for Unlearning the Colonized Mind closes on Monday, June 9 at 6:00 AM ET.

This is for the part of you that has been tired of performing wellness while still carrying the old colonial wound of shame, silence, overworking, and disconnection.

The early bird price is $250 until June 9.
After that, this price closes and does not return.
Come back to kapwa.
Come back to the wisdom your people were taught to distrust.

Come back to the self beneath survival.
Link in bio to register before the early bird closes. 🌿
Or click this link: https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1

06/05/2026

Note: I’m speaking in English because about 75% of my audience are diasporic Filipinos, including most of my 116,000 Instagram followers, do not understand Tagalog.

Speaking multiple languages is a gift, and I’m proud to be Filipino. There’s no shame in speaking Tagalog—the shame is in being embarrassed of who we are and where we come from.

Renato Constantino asks us to look deeper:
What did that same system do to our identity?
To our language?
To how we see our people, our culture, and ourselves?
This is why we’re unlearning.

Because decolonization is not just about history.
It’s about remembering what was taken, questioning what we were taught, and coming home to what has always been ours.
If this speaks to something you’ve carried, join us inside Unlearning the Colonized Mind 🌿

A 3-week workshop on decolonization and Indigenous Filipino Psychology.
Link in bio to register:
https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1
Where are you watching from, kapwa?

Reference:
Constantino, R., & Constantino, L. R. (1982). The miseducation of the Filipino. Quezon City: Foundation for Nationalist Studies.

Disclaimer: This is for informational & educational purposes only & does not constitute therapy or professional advice. This does not replace personalized therapy or consultation with a qualified mental health professional.

Mental health is influenced by complex factors like our colonization history, discrimination, patriarchy, systemic oppression, racism, educational and economic disparities, sexism, etc., and deeply impact our psychological well-being. Please explore how these broader societal issues intersect with personal mental health.

Some habits in our families did not begin as weakness.They began as survival.Gambling. Shame around manual labor. Prefer...
06/04/2026

Some habits in our families did not begin as weakness.
They began as survival.

Gambling. Shame around manual labor. Preferring what is foreign. Waiting for rescue. Obeying without question.

These were not simply “Filipino flaws.” Many were shaped by colonization, poverty, religious control, and generations of trying to stay safe.

This does not excuse harm or harmful choices. But it helps us understand the wound with more honesty.
We remember not to blame our ancestors — but to stop passing down what empire taught them to carry.

Join us inside Unlearning the Colonized Mind 🌿
Link in bio to register or click here: https://thebrownpsych.com/unlearning-the-colonized-mind-level-1

Disclaimer: This is for informational & educational purposes only & does not constitute therapy or professional advice. This does not replace personalized therapy or consultation with a qualified mental health professional.

Mental health is influenced by complex factors like our colonization history, discrimination, patriarchy, systemic oppression, racism, educational and economic disparities, sexism, etc., and deeply impact our psychological well-being. Please explore how these broader societal issues intersect with personal mental health.

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