I find the most significant and most impactful in deciphering and confirming my counseling career has to be learning about the Identity Model. I believe that I do already live a life of integrative awareness where I am able to practice my own identity while accepting others. After reflecting and looking at all of my relationships and its effect on my life has helped me gain a better understanding of how my mind works. It has also led me to ponder on the various techniques I am applying to my everyday life in regards to these theories. I thoroughly enjoy learning about Rogerian theory where it implies of a more person centered approach and this I can apply with my personal/love life. I also enjoying applying the narrative approach to help …show more content…
I find that my identity has been shaped by my cultural identity. Growing up as an Asian American which I did not understand what this meant until college. Yet in college I had to further identify who I was and that is a Cambodian-American. The hyphen stands for the balance that is being creating among both cultures. I think that social constructions like media portraying Asians is far from what Asians has to offer. I feel that because of the small or not having Asians or specifically Southeast Asians in mainstream media has pushed me further to understand what it means to be Southeast Asian and Cambodian-American. Also, being classified as Asian and its stereotype of being smart yet being Southeast Asian fell into this category of being the model minority. I think with the surge of gangs and aid in technology, the view of Southeast Asians started to drift from mainstream Asians. Southeast Asians were then called FOB or fresh off the boat. Growing up, this was what created and most of us identified as due to the lack of understanding that we were different Asians. We were among the marginalized of the marginalised group in …show more content…
I believe that with the ability and desire to learn will carry us a long way. To ultimately live above the smog line as we have learned in class, is to forgive but not forget, this is something that I have been doing my life. I am able to forgive but will not forget the impact that people have made in my life. It was a process that is learned and I think I came to this point was to forgive myself first. This will lead to that transcendent identity that we are yielding to achieve is to understand how our mind and heart but also how our spirit works in our society of “isms”. I feel that if one promotes, like I do, meditate on our mind, body and spirit, the space that we live in will illustrate a vivid and colorful space to live. Everything that I have come to learn I retract and acknowledge that I am mindful along with the language and health of my body as well as my spirit, reflecting the person that I am today. I believe that I am becoming more holistic but again I am a work in progress rather than being complete. Most importantly, I have learn to be true to myself and with this mindset I will able to manuever through life a little