«How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life»
In How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life: Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health, licensed marriage and family therapist, speaker, and executive coach Jeanie Y. Chang says the answer is a resounding yes! The book explores how the wildly popular K-Drama global phenomenon can not just entertain us, but also help us grieve from losses, heal trauma, improve our overall mental health and navigate the complicated roadmap of life no matter what challenges we may face.
“K-Dramas are aspirational and inspirational. They allow us to strive, thrive, and hope for a better tomorrow,” Chang explains. “K-Dramas show us where we come from, who we are today, and what we could be. They’re like a roadmap of life, guiding us in navigating life’s speed bumps, roadblocks, twists, turns, and dead-ends. K-Dramas have helped my mental health over the years, specifically with my cultural identity. What started as self-care has blossomed into an integral part of my clinical work.”
Inspired by Chang’s own experiences using K-Dramas to improve the mental health of herself and her clients, How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life explores the many different themes commonly found in K-Dramas and what they can teach us about ourselves. A practical resource, Chang demonstrates how to apply these lessons to change our own lives for the better. Readers will learn how to use Cultural Confidence®, Chang’s trademarked mental health framework, to develop identity, mindfulness, and resilience. How K-Dramas Can Transform Your Life: Powerful Lessons on Belongingness, Healing, and Mental Health is an entertaining and highly insightful read for K-Drama lovers and all those interested in how pop culture can be a force for good.
Jeanie Y. Chang is available to discuss topics around K-Dramas, relationships, mental health and more, including:
- What K-Dramas can teach you about life, mental health, identity, mindfulness, and resilience
- How powerful and dialectical forces determine our emotions and what Korean culture can teach us about how to best harness and manage those feelings
- I stopped watching K-Dramas and prioritized my career and this is what happened (personal essay)
- How K-Dramas help us learn we are not defined by our trauma or worst moments and can aspire to be more
- K-Drama- “homework” for couples who want to improve physical and emotional intimacy
- K-Dramas to help you understand your teens and young adult and their crisis
- K-Dramas to help you understand a mid-life crisis
- Life lessons from Squid Game, according to a K-Drama expert
- Why we need escapism in our lives, according to a therapist
- How she launched her K-Drama tour business and formed a global community
- Processing grief through K-Dramas
