CHRAUMA Sam Townsend & Daniel Choi

This is it folks -- the finale of season 1! In today’s episode Choi and Sam share key takeaways for listeners consolidating all topics to date. After our journey together navigating past traumas from the church and from AAPI culture we wanted to reflect and highlight the main messages we hope you guys take with you. 

A big thanks to everyone who tuned in this season, let us know what you think!

Regardless of what church he joins Choi knows that he’s going to run into some friction and turbulence along the way and in this week’s episode our dynamic duo discuss how Choi would do church differently this time around knowing what he knows now. After a long season of self discovery and self awareness will he be able to turn his chrauma and scars into wisdom and action?

Last episode we talked about the stigma around church hopping and how to balance finding a church that works for you while not being overly consumeristic about the process. Today we discuss Choi’s personal framework that he’ll be using as he looks to find a new church and community to join.

Even though church has always been a huge part of our lives we’re never really taught how to look for a church or what that process looks like. Choi and Sam discuss church hopping culture and what it would look like for Choi to find his way back to a church.

Worship has always been a part of the Christian experience but why do we do it and how does it differ from other music that we listen to? Choi and Sam discuss worship culture and how praise is just another form of self-expression. 

Feeling ashamed of yourself might be one of the shittiest feelings in the world. Shame is something we can all relate to and have battled with at one point and in today’s episode Sam and Choi discuss shame culture, which has unfortunately become a foundation of the AAPI and church experience, and what you can do to start overcoming it.