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🌿Dr. Marinette Asuncion-Uy, PsyD - Licensed Clinical Psychologist & licensed in 42 States 🇺🇸
✊🏽🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈Filipino Inner Child Healing Through Ancestral Wisdom, Liberation & Decolonization
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Weaving Futures: Anak, Feed Yourself is a 90-minute ritual weaving workshop for Filipinos in the diaspora who want to ex...
12/27/2025

Weaving Futures: Anak, Feed Yourself is a 90-minute ritual weaving workshop for Filipinos in the diaspora who want to explore healing through creativity, reflection, and community.

Using simple, repurposed materials found at home, you’ll create a personal weaving infused with care for your inner child and hope for the future—then join others in forming a collective Digital Dream Weave.

✨ Facilitated by Dr. Blessyl Buan
✨ Exclusive to The Hilom Collective
✨ Online & community-centered

If you’re craving a gentler way to reconnect—with yourself and with others—comment THC and we’ll send you the details.

The Hilom Collective: The only global Filipino healing community where your inner child journey continues every week—so old patterns don’t return.

Understanding well-being through a Filipino worldview reminds us that healing was never meant to be isolated.Through Kal...
12/26/2025

Understanding well-being through a Filipino worldview reminds us that healing was never meant to be isolated.

Through Kaluluwa, we honor the soul and the loob.
Through Kapwa, we recognize the shared self and our interconnectedness.
Through Kalikasan, we remember our relationship with the living world around us.

Healing, through a Filipino lens, is not about fixing the self.
It is about restoring harmony between the self, the community, and the world we belong to.
This is the heart of our work.
A return to indigenous truths that honor Filipino ways of being—rather than erase them.

For those who feel ready to begin this remembering:

🌱 Roots & Rebirth — a self-paced return to the loob

Comment REBIRTH (for them the guided reflections) or THC for collective healing and we’ll send you the details.

References:
Journal Article: Cervantes, C. L. G. (2023). Kaluluwa, kapwa, kalikasan: Mental health implications of Filipino folk beliefs. Spirituality in Clinical Practice. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1037/scp0000358

Research Paper: Cornel, J. (2024). Lived experiences of Filipino mental health professionals working with Filipino clients [Unpublished research paper]. Department of Counseling & School Psychology, San Diego State University.

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.

12/26/2025

Why does becoming your own person feel like betrayal for so many Filipino cycle breakers?

Western psychology teaches individuation as separation.
But in Filipino families, identity was formed through shared survival, responsibility, and belonging.

So when healing sounds like distance, the body resists—not because you’re unhealthy, but because separation once meant danger.

Individuation doesn’t have to mean disconnection.
It means learning who you are without disappearing from your relationships.

Healing isn’t choosing between selfhood and family.
That’s a false choice.
It’s learning how to belong and still have a self.

🎥 Watch Dr. Nette’s new YouTube reflection on Filipino healing, attachment, and individuation.

👇🏽 Comment LINK and we’ll send you the channel.

Disclaimer:
This content is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for mental health care, diagnosis, or therapy.

12/25/2025

This season can hold many things at once —
joy and grief, love and fatigue, hope and uncertainty.

For Filipinos across the diaspora and in the homeland,
this year has asked a lot of our bodies and spirits.
Still, kapwa reminds us we don’t survive alone.
Our presence for one another matters.
We are each other’s medicine.

🎥 Come listen to Dr. Nette’s new YouTube video,
where she gently unpacks Filipino psychology, collective care,
and what it means to rest and stay human in heavy times.

👉 Comment “LINK” and we’ll send you the channel.

Happy holidays.
And for those who celebrate, Maligayang Pasko.

The new year doesn’t begin empty. It begins with what we carry.Join us for our January Didactic Session & Open Q&A:What ...
12/23/2025

The new year doesn’t begin empty.
It begins with what we carry.

Join us for our January Didactic Session & Open Q&A:
What We Carry Into the New Year:
A Filipino Inner Child Perspective

This is a reflective space to pause, understand what our Filipino inner child brings forward, and gently explore what may be ready to be released—without shame, pressure, or forced optimism.

Grounded in Sikolohiyang Pilipino, ancestral wisdom, and inner child work, this session offers gentle teaching, cultural insight, and an open Q&A where curiosity and care are welcome.

✨ Come as you are
✨ Listen, reflect, or ask questions
✨ Heal in community, at your own pace

📅 Jan 13, 2026
🕗 8 PM EST
👤 with Dr. Nette, Psy.D.
🌱 Inside The Hilom Collective

👇🏽 Want to join?
Comment THC and we’ll send you all the details.

No pressure.
Just the next right step.

12/23/2025

When you try to apply Western psychology to Filipino families,
your body tightens.

Instead of feeling free,
you feel guilty. Heavy.
Like healing made you the bad child.

Western psychology assumes
the healthiest unit is the individual.

But Filipino families were shaped through interdependence —
shared survival, collective care.

So when closeness gets labeled as enmeshment
without cultural context,
connection turns into pathology.

That’s why boundaries can feel like betrayal.
Not because you’re weak —
but because your nervous system remembers
a time when distance meant danger.

Healing isn’t choosing between selfhood or family.
That’s a false choice.

It’s learning how to belong
without disappearing.

🎥 Come listen to Dr. Nette’s new YouTube video
where she unpacks why Western psychology often misses the Filipino context —
and what healing can look like without abandoning family.

👉 Comment LINK and we’ll send the channel.

The holidays can bring up the weight you’ve carried for years. 💛You weren’t just a child—you were the emotional parent, ...
12/22/2025

The holidays can bring up the weight you’ve carried for years. 💛

You weren’t just a child—you were the emotional parent, soothing others when you didn’t even have space to soothe yourself. Your small heart learned to hold your parents’ moods, your siblings’ conflicts, and the unspoken tension in the room.

This wasn’t your fault. It’s generational, ancestral, and shaped by survival. But now—you get to choose differently.

In Filipino culture, hiya and utang na loob can blur boundaries. True kapwa, however, honors your heart without asking you to carry everyone else’s.

🌿 Join The Hilom Collective if you want a space to rest, be witnessed, and unlearn survival patterns. Comment “THC”.

📘 Not ready for community yet? Begin gently at your own pace with Roots & Rebirth. Comment “Rebirth”.
You were never meant to carry everyone’s heart. You’re allowed to carry your own first.

Disclaimer: This post is for educational purposes only and is not a substitute for personalized mental health care. Filipino experiences differ across culture, faith, class, and region, so these insights may not fit everyone’s situation. If you are thinking about or planning to harm yourself, please seek immediate help by going to your nearest emergency room, calling a mental health crisis hotline, or contacting a licensed therapist or counselor. You are not alone, and help is available.

12/22/2025

You weren’t allowed to be angry.
So you became quiet.
Careful.
Accommodating.

You called it being respectful.
Being matatag.
Being a good daughter.
A good son.
A good child.

But inside — your body held the heat.
In your jaw.
In your gut.
In every yes that should’ve been a no.

Many Filipino cycle breakers don’t realize
how much rage they carry —
because we weren’t taught how to feel it.
We were taught to fear it.

So it comes out sideways —
as shame,
self-blame,
burnout.

🌱 That’s why I created Roots & Rebirth —
a 30-day self-paced healing guide
for Filipino inner children
who need a safe place
to feel what was once forbidden.

You don’t have to be afraid of your anger.
You just need a way to stay with it,
so it doesn’t stay trapped inside you.

🌾 And if you’re tired of doing this alone —
The Hilom Collective is a global Filipino healing space
where anger isn’t weakness —
it’s welcome.

👇🏽 Comment Rebirth for the eBook
👇🏽 Comment THC to join the community

You’re not broken for feeling what they suppressed.
You’re telling the truth out loud.

—

Disclaimer:
This content is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for mental health care, diagnosis, or therapy.

You catch yourself mid-sentence. Your voice turns sharp. And the fear hits:“Am I becoming like them?”This fear is common...
12/21/2025

You catch yourself mid-sentence.
Your voice turns sharp.
And the fear hits:

“Am I becoming like them?”

This fear is common for Filipino cycle breakers—
not because you’re failing,
but because you care.

In hard moments, old patterns can rise.
Then comes the shame. The doubt.

But this doesn’t mean you’re broken.
It means you’re aware.
And awareness already makes you different.

🌱 Roots & Rebirth was created for these moments—
a gentle space to come back to your body
and practice responding, not reliving.

🌾 And if you don’t want to do this alone,
The Hilom Collective offers weekly healing in community.

👇🏽 Comment Rebirth for the eBook
👇🏽 Comment THC to join the Collective

You don’t need to be perfect to stop the harm.
You just need to stay present.
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Disclaimer:
This content is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for mental health care, diagnosis, or therapy.

12/21/2025

You work abroad.
Send money home.
Ship the balikbayan box.
Show up.
Stay strong.
Keep giving.

And you’re proud of that —
masarap naman talagang tumulong.

It feels good to help.
To ease someone’s burden back home.
To be the one they count on.

But this is what I hear often —
from clients and from Filipinos in my inner child healing workshops:

“I don’t know how to stop overgiving.”
“I feel guilty when I don’t send enough.”
“I work so much, but I still feel empty.”

The grief of the diaspora is quiet.
Because on the outside, you’re thriving.
But on the inside?

You’re tired.
Lonely.
Disconnected from the part of you that still needs care.

You learned early that being needed meant being loved.
But your inner child doesn’t need another box.
Another deposit.
Another act of proving.

They need rest.
They need to be chosen — by you.

🌱 That’s why I created Roots & Rebirth:
A 30-day healing guide for Filipino cycle breakers in the diaspora
who want peace, not performance.

🌾 And for those who can’t do this alone —
there’s The Hilom Collective:
the only global Filipino healing community
where we continue inner child work every week,
so old patterns don’t return.

👇🏽 Comment Rebirth for the eBook — we’ll DM you the link
👇🏽 Comment THC to join The Hilom Collective

You’re not too much.
You’re not broken.
You’re just carrying more than one lifetime.

And maybe this is the year
you give something back to yourself.

—

Disclaimer:
This content is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for mental health care, diagnosis, or therapy.

You’re surrounded by family—and still, you feel completely alone.Not because you want to be dramatic.But because you see...
12/20/2025

You’re surrounded by family—
and still, you feel completely alone.

Not because you want to be dramatic.
But because you see what no one else wants to name.

You notice the jabs wrapped in jokes.
The silence used as punishment.
The way love is offered only when you perform.

And when you try to speak up, they call you sensitive.
They say, “It’s not that deep.”
They act like you’re the problem—just for feeling.

So you start questioning yourself.
“Why am I the only one who sees this?”
“Maybe I should just stay quiet.”

This is the quiet exile so many Filipino cycle breakers carry.
You’re still in the family.
But no one really meets you.

That’s why I created Roots & Rebirth—
a 30-day self-paced healing guide
for Filipinos who feel emotionally alone in their own homes.

A soft place to come back to yourself—
when no one else is willing to do the work.

And if you can’t do this alone—
The Hilom Collective is the only global Filipino healing space
where your grief isn’t “too much.”
Where you are met, week by week, in shared rhythm and care.

Comment Rebirth for the eBook — we’ll DM you the link
Comment THC to join The Hilom Collective

You’re not the problem for noticing the harm.
You’re the first one willing to name it.

And that is a beginning.
—
Disclaimer:
This content is for educational and informational purposes only and is not a substitute for mental health care, diagnosis, or therapy.

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Jacksonville, FL
32257

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