A conversation about heritage and healing.
I was very chuffed to be asked on Sabine Wilms podcast, “Pebble in a Cosmic Pond.“ In their 2024 season, Sabine and her co-podcaster, Chinese Medicine Doctor Leo Lok, wanted to interview female Chinese Medicine practitioners of East Asian descent. That’s pretty awesome, as the professional conversation within acupuncture and East Asian Medicine in Western countries tends to be dominated by people of European descent, usually male.
I was born in New Zealand and lived for parts of my youth in Singapore, Japan and China. My mother is Singaporean Chinese, and it turns out, her grandfather was a Chinese medicine herbalist and acupuncturist. My father is an Irish New Zealander who met my mother while he was in the NZ army in Singapore. Growing up ‘half and half’ wasn’t always easy, and in recent years I have uncovered underlying internalised racism in myself. It has been a process of unfolding and discovering how much I was influenced by the dominant culture I grew up in, at the expense of the minority culture – when these two cultures show up in one human being, it can make for a confusing time!
It was a pleasure and a lot of fun to have this real and at times very vulnerable conversation with Leo and Sabine.
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