39 episodes
On Living Leanh Nguyen, Ph.D.
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- Society & Culture
What does it mean to be human? What do we make of this life? How do we hurt, and heal, one another? What does it take to love? What does it cost to hate? How do we stay fully alive to our humanity? How do we find the means to behold beauty and kindness? How do we live fully and authentically?
Through this series of intimate, thought-provoking conversations, you will have a chance to reflect on questions about survival, fulfillment, connection, living and dying well. We encounter a deep place of questioning and, ultimately, awaken toward the powerful questions and ambitions that lay unbidden in our daily existence.
Dr. Nguyen brings 25 years of engagement with trauma survivors, refugees of war and persecution, immigrants from all over the world, and patients from all walks of life. As with her work, this show is an opportunity to explore the meaning of being alive and to support people in the ambition toward a life fully lived.
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On living and being human: The case about psychotherapy
In this final episode on Voice America, Dr. Nguyen opens up the question about what her profession offers toward the struggle to be human.
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How do we love each other: The case for curiosity
Dr. Nguyen continues to make her case for human connection by questioning the forces behind curiosity, Friendship, and psychotherapy.
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How we de-humanize each other
In continuing to make her case for kindness and tenderness, Dr. Nguyen examines the forces that prevent our recognition of each other's humanity and corrupt our sense of connection to each other.
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What makes us human: The case for tenderness
Dr. Nguyen gives a retrospective of the series.
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Fighting against trafficking: Retrieving the human.
In this last interview of a guest for the show, the host features a Vietnam-based foundation that is devoted to the empowerment of women and youth via the fight against human trafficking.
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Training for music or for life
In this special, intimate episode Dr. Nguyen is in conversation with a celebrated concert pianist about her work.
The host interviews her fellow Vietnamese about her life experiences and insights as a musical prodigy, an immigrant, and a teacher.
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