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🌿Dr. Marinette Asuncion-Uy, PsyD - Liberation & Clinical Psychologist & licensed in 43 States ✊🏽🇵🇭🏳️‍🌈Decolonial Healing + Inner Child
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01/09/2026

Hiya is often translated as shame—but that translation misses the heart of it.

In Sikolohiyang Filipino, hiya is not about damaged self-worth. It’s about relational awareness—knowing context, attunement, and how we move within community.

Hiya shifts depending on how it’s used:
mahiyain, napahiya, kahihiyan
Each holds a different meaning.

Hiya isn’t one emotion.
It’s our social compass.

✨ Watch the full reflection on Dr. Nette’s YouTube channel for deeper cultural context.

They told us the problem was inside us—our anxiety, our rage, our sorrow. But what if our symptoms are not personal fail...
01/09/2026

They told us the problem was inside us—our anxiety, our rage, our sorrow.
But what if our symptoms are not personal failures,but protest songs?
What if our grief is not dysfunction, but memory trying to speak? Modern systems ask us to adjust to aworld built on forgetting—forgetting our language, our rhythm,our dead.
But we were never meant to fit into an empire. Wewere meant to outlive it.

This is for the ones who were called too sensitive. Too loud.Too brown. You are not too much—you are responding exactly as a human should in an inhuman world. Your grief is not a flaw, it is a flame. You carry what they tried to tame. You are not meant to stay the same.
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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.

January Events: The Hilom Collective🌿 Rooted. Rising. Radiant. This January, The Hilom Collective invites you to begin t...
01/08/2026

January Events: The Hilom Collective

🌿 Rooted. Rising. Radiant.
This January, The Hilom Collective invites you to begin the year with intention — reflecting on what you carry forward, what you’re ready to release, and how you want to move through the months ahead.

Because healing doesn’t start on a clean slate — it unfolds in community. 💛

Here’s what’s coming up:

🧵 Jan 6 — Weaving Futures: Anak, Feed Yourself
with Dr. Blessyl Buan
🕓 4:00 PM EST

🪞 Jan 13 — Didactic Session + Q&A
What We Carry Into the New Year:
A Filipino Inner Child Perspective
🕗 8:00 PM EST

🤝 Jan 20 — Kapwa Konek
with Harmonie T. Tangonan
🕗 8:00 PM EST

🌱 Jan 31 — Inner Child Healing Workshop
Visioning With Your Younger Self:
Healing and Planning the Year Ahead
🕛 12:00 PM EST

Join us this January.
Come as you are. Come into kapwa.
👇🏽 Comment “THC” to join
📍 Or visit: thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective

Breaking patterns is hard work. Especially when you’re the first. Especially when you’re Filipino, taught to survive wi...
01/08/2026

Breaking patterns is hard work. Especially when you’re the first. Especially when you’re Filipino, taught to survive with silence, to confuse hiya with worth, to call self-abandonment love. Sometimes the hardest part isn’t the healing itself—it’s not having anyone to show you how.

No elder to say “Anak, you’re allowed to rest.”
No map for how to stop yelling like your father or disappearing like your mother.
Just you, raw with memory, trying to raise your kids differently while still re-raising yourself.

Feeling this in your bones?
Join us at The Hilom Collective
to break the patterns.
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.

01/07/2026

Let’s talk about utang na loob.

It’s often translated as a “debt of gratitude,” but in Filipino psychology, it’s not transactional.

Utang na loob reflects relational solidarity, not obligation or repayment. It’s about enduring bonds that connect us across time and generations. 💛

✨ Watch the full explanation on our YouTube channel for deeper reflections.

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’ve been judging your progress by a timeline that never considered your culture, your childhood, or your survival ...
01/06/2026

If you’ve been judging your progress by a timeline that never considered your culture, your childhood, or your survival —
let this be your reminder:
You are not late.
You are healing in real time.
Cycle breakers move differently
because we’re the first to choose softness over survival.

For extended discussions and cultural insights on Filipino Psychology, visit The Brown Psych Channel on YouTube.

Podcast Coming Soon!!

🔗 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.

So many Filipina women are praised for being strong.But strength, in our culture, often means silence.Self-denial.The ab...
01/04/2026

So many Filipina women are praised for being strong.
But strength, in our culture, often means silence.
Self-denial.
The ability to carry pain without complaint.
We see it in our mothers.
Our titas.
Sometimes, in ourselves.

But what if strength isn’t the full story?
What if the version we inherited is slowly breaking us?

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.

January Events: The Hilom Collective🌿 Rooted. Rising. Radiant.This January, The Hilom Collective invites you to begin th...
01/03/2026

January Events: The Hilom Collective
🌿 Rooted. Rising. Radiant.

This January, The Hilom Collective invites you to begin the year with intention — reflecting on what you carry forward, what you’re ready to release, and how you want to move through the months ahead.

Because healing doesn’t start on a clean slate — it unfolds in community. 💛

Here’s what’s coming up:
🧵 Jan 6 — Weaving Futures: Anak, Feed Yourself
with Dr. Blessyl Buan
🕓 4:00 PM EST

🪞 Jan 13 — Didactic Session + Q&A
What We Carry Into the New Year:
A Filipino Inner Child Perspective
🕗 8:00 PM EST

🤝 Jan 20 — Kapwa Konek
with Harmonie T. Tangonan
🕗 8:00 PM EST

🌱 Jan 31 — Inner Child Healing Workshop
Visioning With Your Younger Self:
Healing and Planning the Year Ahead
🕛 12:00 PM EST

Join us this as 2026 unfolds!
Come as you are. Come into kapwa.

👇🏽 Comment “THC” or check link in bio for the link.
📍 Or visit: thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective

01/02/2026

Before colonization, Filipino families had boundaries—
but they were relational, not defensive.

There was role clarity.
Belonging.
Shared responsibility.

Colonization disrupted that system.
Roles collapsed.
Power distorted.
Survival replaced attunement.

So now, when Filipino cycle breakers use Western boundary scripts,
conflict erupts.
Arguments happen.
Bodies react.

Not because boundaries are wrong—
but because the framework doesn’t match the system.

The guilt you feel isn’t immaturity.
It’s not weakness.
It’s history living in the nervous system.

Healing means learning how to create boundaries
that fit Filipino relational worlds—
not forcing separation where connection once kept people alive.

🎥 Watch Dr. Nette’s full teaching on Filipino boundaries, colonization, and cultural memory on YouTube.

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

January Events: The Hilom Collective🌿 Rooted. Rising. Radiant. This January, The Hilom Collective invites you to begin t...
01/01/2026

January Events: The Hilom Collective

🌿 Rooted. Rising. Radiant.
This January, The Hilom Collective invites you to begin the year with intention — reflecting on what you carry forward, what you’re ready to release, and how you want to move through the months ahead.

Because healing doesn’t start on a clean slate — it unfolds in community. 💛

Here’s what’s coming up:

🧵 Jan 6 — Weaving Futures: Anak, Feed Yourself
with Dr. Blessyl Buan
🕓 4:00 PM EST

🪞 Jan 13 — Didactic Session + Q&A
What We Carry Into the New Year:
A Filipino Inner Child Perspective
🕗 8:00 PM EST

🤝 Jan 20 — Kapwa Konek
with Harmonie T. Tangonan
🕗 8:00 PM EST

🌱 Jan 31 — Inner Child Healing Workshop
Visioning With Your Younger Self:
Healing and Planning the Year Ahead
🕛 12:00 PM EST

🌀 The Hilom Collective is the only global Filipino healing community where you can continue your inner child journey every week — so you don’t fall back into old survival patterns.

Join us this January.
Come as you are. Come into kapwa.

👇🏽 Comment “THC” to join
📍 Or visit: thebrownpsych.com/hilom-collective

✨ To the Filipino inner child who carried more than anyone knew—this is for you.You stayed.
With your body.
With your gr...
01/01/2026

✨ To the Filipino inner child who carried more than anyone knew—this is for you.

You stayed.
With your body.
With your grief.
With your softness—
even when the world told you to harden.
You didn’t heal in a vacuum.

You healed while facing capitalism, white supremacy, racism—
systems that thrive off your burnout and silence.
So no, your healing wasn’t selfish.
It was political.

Choosing rest in a culture of extraction.
Choosing boundaries in a lineage of survival.
Choosing tenderness where numbness is rewarded.
You didn’t heal perfectly.
You healed honestly.
And that is resistance.

In 2026, we’ll root even deeper—
in Indigenous Filipino Psychology,
decolonization,
and the soft power of Liberation.
Because remembering who we are
has always threatened the systems built on our forgetting.

We’re not just healing—we’re returning,
To the names they buried, the fires still burning.
To the songs they tried to shame into silence,
To the love that resisted through hunger and violence.

We are the dreamers our grandmothers prayed for,
The soft-handed warriors who won’t beg at the same door.
We are the laughter that outlived the fear,
The balm passed down through each salted tear.

So come as you are—bruised or whole.
This path was never for the flawless soul.

We’re so glad you made it. Stay near.

We are each other’s medicine—
now and in the coming year.

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