How k-dramas can transform your life: powerful lessons on belongingness, healing, and mental health

Table of content:
Foreword ix

Introduction xi

Part I The Powerful Intersectionality of K-Dramas and Mental Health 1

Chapter 1 The Global Appeal of K-Dramas 3

Chapter 2 K-Dramas Are for Self-Care 15

Chapter 3 K-Dramas and Processing Grief 35

Chapter 4 K-Dramas and Korean Han 47

Chapter 5 K-Dramas and Healing Our Traumas 57

Chapter 6 K-Dramas and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder 71

Chapter 7 K-Dramas and Suicide Awareness 81

Chapter 8 K-Dramas and Coping with Depression 91

Chapter 9 K-Dramas and Managing Anxiety 105

Part II The Powerful Intersectionality of K-Dramas and Identity 117

Chapter 10 K-Dramas and Life Stages 119

Chapter 11 K-Dramas and Cultural Identity 133

Chapter 12 K-Dramas and Neurodiversity 151

Part III The Powerful Intersectionality of K-Dramas and Resilience 159

Chapter 13 K-Dramas and the Workplace 161

Chapter 14 K-Dramas = Belongingness + Jeong 169

Resource List 181

References 183

Acknowledgments 187

About the Author 189

Index 191

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Discover the power of how K-Dramas can improve your wellbeing and provide a sense of belonging

Love K-Dramas and want more permission to binge watch them? In How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life: Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist Jeanie Y. Chang explores what K-Dramas can teach us about our own well-being and how we can use the lessons they teach us to live better and more meaningful lives. She also touches upon the powerful interrelationship between K-dramas, mental health, and belongingness. Topics covered include:

Using K-Dramas as a roadmap to life, showing you how to navigate speed bumps, roadblocks, twists, turns, and dead ends
Building cross-cultural relationships that you otherwise may not have without being a K-Drama fan
Processing grief from the loss of a loved one to a loss of anything—a job, your physical safety, a relationship, or something else
Harnessing the idea of Jeong, which is innate in Korean society and refers to the emotional sentiment of affinity, affection, kinship, and connection which is the thread throughout Jeanie's community
Working the author’s trademarked mental health framework, Cultural Confidence®, to build up your mental health, identity, mindfulness, and resilience

For K-Drama fans and enthusiasts and anyone curious about the influence of pop culture, How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life is an entertaining and educational must-read on how this enormously popular global phenomenon can help us become the best versions of ourselves.

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