Publisher's Synopsis
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.
