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🌿Dr. Marinette Asuncion-Uy, PsyD - Liberation & Clinical Psychologist & licensed in 43 States ✊🏽🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈Decolonial Healing + Inner Child
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You don’t have to be perfect to heal.You just have to stop leaving yourself.Your inner child is not asking for more effo...
04/25/2026

You don’t have to be perfect to heal.
You just have to stop leaving yourself.
Your inner child is not asking for more effort—
they’re asking for your presence.
Stay. Even when it’s uncomfortable.
Stay. Even when you don’t have the answers.
That choice, repeated gently,
is how we come back home to ourselves.

💛 To learn more about The Hilom Collective, click the link in bio or use this 🔗https://thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective

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.

You learned to make yourself smaller.In classrooms where your name was misread.At work, where you had to prove yourself ...
04/24/2026

You learned to make yourself smaller.

In classrooms where your name was misread.
At work, where you had to prove yourself again and again.
In the quiet space between cultures, where you wondered where you truly belong.

And somewhere in that, it started to feel like you came from something small.

But that is not the truth.

Long before borders and passports, our ancestors were already crossing the vast Pacific—guided by stars, wind, and memory. They built balangay boats that moved with the ocean, not against it. They knew how to find their way.

That is your lineage.

In Sikolohiyang Pilipino, we remember kapwa—that you are never separate from your people, even oceans away. The ache you feel is not emptiness. It is remembering.

So when the world asks you to shrink, pause.

You come from navigators.
From those who trusted the sea and themselves.

That pull in your chest?

That is memory.

And it is calling you back.

—

The Hilom Collective: Where Filipino cycle breakers come home to themselves — through inner child healing, decolonization, and the wisdom of those who came before us.
You don’t have to do this by yourself anymore.
To learn more about The Hilom Collective, click the link in our bio or visit this [https://thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective](https://thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective)

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

Feminism is not just about equality—it is about refusing a system that was built on women’s labor, silence, and sacrific...
04/24/2026

Feminism is not just about equality—it is about refusing a system that was built on women’s labor, silence, and sacrifice. Equality inside a harmful structure is not freedom; it is adaptation to harm.

As bell hooks teaches, ending domination means confronting every system that sustains it—patriarchy, racism, and white supremacy together. These forces decide whose bodies are used, whose voices are ignored, and whose lives are valued.

In Filipino history, resistance has always been here—from the babaylan to women organizing struggle across generations. Feminism, then, is not new. It is remembrance . It is return.

The Hilom Collective: Where Filipino cycle breakers come home to
themselves — through inner child healing,
decolonization, and the wisdom of those who came
before us.

You don’t have to do this by yourself anymore.
To learn more about The Hilom Collective, click the link in our bio or visit this 🔗https://thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective

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

Patriarchy does not fear women for who they are—it fears what happens when women begin to learn. Because education inte...
04/23/2026

Patriarchy does not fear women for who they are—it fears what happens when women begin to learn. Because education interrupts obedience. It breaks the spell of “just accept it.” It teaches a woman to name what she is living through, and naming is already a form of refusal.

From the babaylan who carried ancestral knowledge before colonization, to Filipino women who resisted empire and dictatorship, to journalists like Maria Ressa who continue to confront power today—Filipino women have always used learning as resistance, even when it came at a cost.

This is why decolonizing the mind matters. Because patriarchy does not stand alone—it is bound with white supremacy, shaping systems that decide who gets to think, who gets to speak, who gets to lead. Education, in this light, is not self-improvement. It is remembrance. It is return.

The Hilom Collective: Where Filipino cycle breakers come home to
themselves — through inner child healing,
decolonization, and the wisdom of those who came
before us.

You don’t have to do this by yourself anymore.
To learn more about The Hilom Collective, click the link in our bio or visit this 🔗https://thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective

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

Patriarchy does not just live outside of us—it is taught into our silence, our doubt, our distance from one another. It ...
04/22/2026

Patriarchy does not just live outside of us—it is taught into our silence, our doubt, our distance from one another. It survives when we are told to keep quiet, when we are kept from knowing, when we are made to feel alone. And it has always moved alongside white supremacy, shaping a world where control depends on who is allowed to speak, to rest, to belong.

But this is not how our ancestors lived. There was a time when the babaylan spoke without apology, when women and feminized bodies were trusted as healers, guides, keepers of memory. That knowing is not gone. It lives in the body, waiting for us to remember—together.

To decolonize our minds, we must also face patriarchy. Not alone, but in community. Because healing was never meant to be carried in isolation.

If you’re feeling that quiet pull to return—to your voice, your body, your people—come sit with us.

The Hilom Collective: Where Filipino cycle breakers come home to
themselves — through inner child healing,
decolonization, and the wisdom of those who came
before us.

You don’t have to do this by yourself anymore.
To learn more about The Hilom Collective, click the link in our bio or visit this 🔗https://thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective

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

When we heal without our history, we risk repeating patterns we don’t understand.But when we include our cultural memory...
04/20/2026

When we heal without our history, we risk repeating patterns we don’t understand.

But when we include our cultural memory, we make sense of why certain wounds exist.

This shifts the focus from self-blame to systemic awareness and collective healing.
It opens space for grief, for anger, and for reconnection to what was lost.

And it affirms: your way of healing is not wrong—it may simply be unfinished.

Join the Hilom Collective (link in bio)
- a movement toward healing justice where Filipinos across the globe gather to learn inner child healing and break generational trauma together, because your voice deserves to be heard and your heart deserves to be free.

Pe-Pua, R., & Protacio-Marcelino, E. A. (2000). Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology): A legacy of Virgilio G. Enriquez. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 3(1), 49–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-839X.00054

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.

When we heal without our history, we risk repeating patterns we don’t understand.But when we include our cultural memory...
04/20/2026

When we heal without our history, we risk repeating patterns we don’t understand.
But when we include our cultural memory, we make sense of why certain wounds exist.
This shifts the focus from self-blame to systemic awareness and collective healing.
It opens space for grief, for anger, and for reconnection to what was lost.
And it affirms: your way of healing is not wrong—it may simply be unfinished.

Join the Hilom Collective—a movement toward healing justice where Filipinos across the globe gather to learn inner child healing and break generational trauma together, because your voice deserves to be heard and your heart deserves to be free.

Link in bio or learn more at:
thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective

Pe-Pua, R., & Protacio-Marcelino, E. A. (2000). Sikolohiyang Pilipino (Filipino psychology): A legacy of Virgilio G. Enriquez. Asian Journal of Social Psychology, 3(1), 49–71. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-839X.00054

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.

If you grew up being the “good anak” or staying grateful even when something inside you was hurting, there is a reason t...
04/19/2026

If you grew up being the “good anak” or staying grateful even when something inside you was hurting, there is a reason that weight feels so familiar.

Many of us were taught to carry a blueprint of survival—passed down quietly, lived through obedience, silence, overgiving.

We learned to prioritize others over ourselves, to stay strong while breaking, and to prove belonging through constant performance.

But healing asks a gentler question: what if these were not truths about who we are, but adaptations to what we had to endure?

There is a story that once tried to say we began with colonization, as if our roots were empty before foreign arrival. But through Sikolohiyang Pilipino and the work of Virgilio Enriquez, we are reminded of something deeper: that our values were reshaped under a colonial gaze—hiya turned into shame, utang na loob into debt, bahala na into passivity.

Healing becomes a return to indigenization from within, where kapwa is remembered, and we begin to see ourselves again not through foreign definitions, but through the language of our own roots.

To learn more our own psychology, come sit with us in our workshops. You will also get access to our growing library of videos discussing our Filipino Core Values through our own lens.

To learn more about our workshops (all online),
at The HILOM COLLECTIVE, Click the link in our bio.

Rice was not always everyday food. There was a time our ancestors waited for it, spoke gently around it, believed it co...
04/17/2026

Rice was not always everyday food. There was a time our ancestors waited for it, spoke gently around it, believed it could turn away if handled without care. In places like Ifugao, the Bulul stood in the granary as quiet witnesses—reminding the community that food is never separate from relationship. Even a pot of rice carried prayer, marked and shared so no one would be left out. This is how our people understood nourishment: not just for the body, but for kapwa—for all of us, together.

If you feel that quiet longing to remember this way of being, come sit with us.
Join Kamayan: Rediscovering the Menu of the Archipelago with Christian Origenes, one of the gatherings inside
The Hilom Collective:

To learn more The Hilom Collective, Link in bio.

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.

We were never meant to understand ourselves through frameworks that don’t reflect who we are.When we return to our langu...
04/16/2026

We were never meant to understand ourselves through frameworks that don’t reflect who we are.

When we return to our language—kapwa, utang na loob, pakikisama, hiya—we begin to see that these were never just “concepts.” They were ways of being in relationship, in community, in care.

This is why decolonizing our understanding matters. Not to reject what we’ve been taught, but to gently return to what was always ours beneath the distortion.

At The Hilom Collective, we hold space for this kind of remembering—where healing is not individual performance, but shared return. A place where inner child healing, cultural grounding, and Sikolohiyang Pilipino come together in community.

If this resonates, join our virtual workshops at The Hilom Collective—and continue the work of coming back to yourself, with others beside you.

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.

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