Identity & Integration Resources
A little note.
Safer spaces are harder to come by.
Below is an evolving list of resources that have felt safe enough and healing along my journey. Maybe they will meet you where you are, too~
Body | Heart | Mind | Spirit
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The Curious Onigiris /ft. Satsuki Shibuya & Taryn Hiroshima
Onigiri means rice ball in Japanese & there are always two. Satsuki and I started The Curious Onigiris podcast hoping to create a safe and aligned space to explore life, spirituality, and identity, laughing along the way and trying to make sense of this wild reality.
Our lenses come from shared and differing identities as intuitives, an artist & designer, spiritual channel & therapist, manifesting generator & projector (human design), and 2nd & 4th gen Japanese Americans—plus other less-serious and awkward ones lol.
Feel free to come and adventure with us as we find and cultivate moments of belonging, connection, and alignment of our paths. ♡
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The Crowded Room
The Crowded Room is a compelling and authentic psychological thriller based on true events, set in Manhattan of 1979, when a young man is arrested for a crime—and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it.
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“That's what art is for me, a way to fold the inexplicable and overwhelming into something we can carry with us.” /Britchida
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“ Mary Oliver wrote:
and what could be more comforting than to fold grief like a blanket—
to fold anger like a blanket with neat corners—
to put them into a box of words? ”
Britchida (they/them) creates queer abstract art exploring healing, trauma, gender, mental health and relationships. -
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Perspective /Tori Reid
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Perspective by Tori Reid offers a unique perspective in connecting better with the self and others in relatable and profound ways. -
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“For me, foraging as a Black woman is an act of rebellion through restoration of knowledge, it is an act of justice to put our hands to the earth to support ourselves.” /Alexis Nikole Nelson, "Black Forager"
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Alexis Nikole shares recipes, plant differentiations, her favorite “chicken-of-the-woods” mushroom finds, and other wild adventures through fun and fascinating video shorts. -
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How We Feel App
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A beautifully designed and simple way to check in with your feels, this app has a vast visual matrix of emotions with corresponding definitions that help track patterns and strengthen feeling identification. -
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“We go through this life slowly but surely, just collecting these little pieces of ourselves that we can’t really live without until eventually, we have enough of them to where we feel whole.” /Kevin
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This Is Us follows the Pearson family's generational story of love, connection, triumph and heartbreak, through the lenses of flashbacks and flashforwards. -
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"Lessons from a redwood tree" /Spoken-word poem by Andrea Gibson
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Andrea Gibson (they/them) is a queer spoken-word artist that focuses on gender norms, politics, social reform, and the struggles queer people face in today's society. -
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“I don’t need fixing, I will be searching for answers my whole life, not because I’m a half-formed thing, but because I’m brilliant enough to keep growing.”
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Home Body by Rupi Kaur is a collection of raw, honest conversations with oneself—reminding readers to fill up on love, acceptance, community, family, and embrace change. -
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Sleeping At Last: Enneagram Episodes /Ryan O'neal
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Musician, Ryan O'Neal, from Sleeping at Last journeys to capture the substance of each Enneagram type through his songs titled “one” through “nine.” These podcast episodes dive deeper into each number with a special guest, Chris Huertz, who authors an Enneagram book saying the Enneagram is a “sacred map to the soul.” -
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I'm Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense /Danez Smith
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A poet leaves California to return to their Minnesotan homeplace, a place where winter makes sense, where sadness makes sense, where the isolation that’s at the heart of humanity can be met with a landscape that can contain it.
Race | Ethnicity
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“Asian Americans, even in all our diversity, often lack the words to describe how it hurts, why we feel this way, the ways our loneliness manifests, and — most importantly — how we can change things." /Soo Jin Lee & Linda Yoon
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Where I Belong shows us how the cycle of trauma can play out in our relationships, placing Asian American experiences front and center to help us process and heal from racial and intergenerational trauma. -
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“What if our community invested in the individual transformation that could give way to communal and collective healing?” /Dr. Jenny T. Wang
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Permission to Come Home takes Asian Americans on an empowering journey toward reclaiming their mental health. Dr. Wang explores a range of life areas that call for attention, offering readers the permission to question, feel, rage, say no, take up space, choose, play, fail, and grieve. Above all, she offers permission to return closer to home, a place of acceptance, belonging, healing, and freedom. -
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"To build a better tomorrow, we have to reimagine today" /Nicole Cardoza
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Reimagined has evolved their space from unpacking how systemic oppression faces us today and amplifying the voices of those most marginalized, to reimagining today for a better tomorrow. What are the tools we need to cultivate more just and laboratory futures? How do we fortify ourselves in tumultuous times? And who can we learn from that’s provided models for inclusive, equitable and meaningful connection? -
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“It is becoming increasingly clear that this country will still turn on you in a second if they don’t like the way you look, or where you’re from." /J.K. Yamamoto
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Jon Osaki ‘s Alternative Facts tells the hidden story of government lies and political influences which led to the World War ll incarceration of Japanese Americans. -
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“Living everyday in the presence of those who refuse to acknowledge your humanity takes great courage.”
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Pachinko, a drama series adaptation from Min Jin Lee’s novel, follows the generations of a Korean family who move to Japan amidst Japanese colonization and political warfare. -
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“We’ve tried to teach our brains to think better about race. But white-body supremacy doesn’t live in our thinking brains. It lives and breathes in our bodies.”
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Resmaa Menakem’s My Grandmother’s Hands examines the damage caused by racism in America from the perspective of trauma and body-centered psychology. -
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“You have to know your past if you want to create a future.” /Gene Luen Yang
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Based on the graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang, American Born Chinese follows a Taiwanese American boy coming to terms with his racial identity in school, with family, friends, and himself. -
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“Right now, we now have more Black Americans under criminal supervision than all the slaves back in 1850s.” /Angela Davis
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13th explores how the 13th amendment created a loophole to legalize modern-day slavery in the form of criminal punishment, showing us why the US prison systems are disproportionately filled with Black Americans. -
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“Watchmen is a story about America and it’s about self-proclaimed “heroes” fighting an intangible enemy that is almost impossible to defeat… that enemy is the long overdue reckoning with our country’s camouflaged history of White Supremacy. That said, this is not the ONLY plot arc because there are also alien squids.” /Damon Lindelof, Series Creator
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Watchmen takes place in an alternative, contemporary reality in the United States, in which masked vigilantes became outlawed due to their violent methods. -
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“If there’s something that everyone should know about adoption, it’s that there is no end... there is no closure.”
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All You Can Ever Know is a memoir about the growing up as a Korean American transracial adoptee in a predominantly white small Oregon town and the nuances of transracial adoption. -
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“You're growing into consciousness, and my wish for you is that you feel no need to constrict yourself to make others comfortable... I would not have you descend into your own dream. I would have you be a conscious citizen of this terrible and beautiful world.”
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Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me is written as a letter to his teenage son about the feelings, symbolism, and realities with being Black in the US.
Sexuality | Gender
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“Do you ever feel like you’re only doing things because everyone else is? And you’re scared to change, or do something that might confuse or surprise people? Your real personality has been, like… buried inside you for a really long time?” —Nick
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Based on the graphic novel by Alice Oseman, Heartstopper highlights a group of friends navigating community, love, vulnerability, relationships, and the complexity of coming out in the midst of a world of judgment and beratement. -
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“Sexuality is fluid. Sex doesn't make us whole. And so, how could you ever be broken?”
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Sex Education explores the complexity and beauty of sexuality across a spectrum, with humor, wit, nuance and honesty. -
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“I really just want to be visible so people know this is possible that I exist—not 'I' as in Schuyler but 'I' as in a trans athlete.”
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Schuyler Bailar is the first openly transgender athlete to compete in any sport on an NCAA Division 1 men’s team. He is an internationally celebrated inspirational speaker, bestselling author, and advocate for trans inclusion, radical body acceptance and mental health awareness. -
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“Being our own safe haven and secure base requires that we first have the capacity to be with our self. To sit, to listen, to be available to whatever arises within us.”
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Polyamorous psychotherapist Jessica Fern uses her nested model of attachment and trauma to expand our understanding of how these emotional experiences influence our relationships.
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Genderbread Person
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An illustrative visual and explanation using nuanced languaging that nods to the expansiveness of sexuality and gender. -
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Coral App
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Coral is an interactive sexual wellness app designed to help individuals and partners learn how to connect back to each other and themselves. -
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“Platonic love was not romantic love undergoing subtraction. It was a purer form of love, one for someone's soul.”
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Marisa G. Franco’s Platonic is all about friendship and the profound importance of platonic connection, with practical guides to making, deepening, and ending friends as an adult. -
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“Many people use culture and difference as barriers to acceptance and love, saying that these identities cannot coexist in one person. But I am living proof that they certainly can. In all of my intersectionality, I am still here. Alive. And Korean. Alive. And white. Alive. And an athlete. Alive. And transgender. And alive.”
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Schuyler Bailar’s Obie is a coming-of-age story about transgender tween Obie and the struggles faced coming into his own identity.
Spirituality
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Satsuki Shibuya
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Satsuki Shibuya is an intuitive artist and spiritual guide whose practice is deeply rooted in spirituality, with each creation emerging from her profound connection to the unseen. Based in Los Angeles, Satsuki's journey began with a background in music and design, but a pivotal period of illness deepened her spiritual insights and redirected her focus toward the healing arts. -
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Samantha Chung
Samantha Chung is known as “Simplifying Sam.” She specializes in mindset and manifestation, on a mission to help more people wake up and live fully as their authentic self.
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What is God? /Brey
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Brey, a spiritually gifted kiddo, shares his channeled knowledge and thoughts about what the God energy is like. -
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Solar Glow Meditations /Megan
Megan explores the universe by asking spirit questions and spirit responds by moving my dowsing rods. She shares reiki energy healings, what I’ve learned about life, and uses the dowsing rods to answer curiosities from the public.
Community-based alternative crisis resources to calling the police
Portland, Oregon
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Call or Text BlackLine
(800) 604-5841
Crisis line that provides a space for peer support, counseling, witnessing and affirming the lived experiences to folx who are most impacted by systematic oppression with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens.
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Project Respond
(503) 988-488824-Hour mental health crisis hotline and mobile mental health crisis response team provide an array of crisis, specialized, and culturally aware services.
Mental health crisis teams may be accompanied by police. They will generally leave if the site is deemed safe for the mental health team.
Racial Equity Support Line
(503) 575-3764
The Racial Equity Support Line is a service led and staffed by people with lived experience of racism. We offer support to those who are feeling the emotional impacts of racist violence and microaggressions, as well as the emotional impacts of immigration struggles and other cross-cultural issues.
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Call to Safety (formerly the Portland Women’s Crisis Line)
(503) 235-5333
(888) 235-5333 (24/7 Crisis Line)Provides a comprehensive 24/7 crisis line, follow-up advocacy for survivors, support groups, community outreach, and education, and sexual assault medical advocacy.
*Language bank allows translation into any language, and connects callers to local culturally-specific resources
Linea Unica
(503) 232-444824-hour Spanish language sexual assault helpline, also offering support groups, medical advocacy
Native American Youth and Family Center
(503) 318-5213Programming such as emergency energy assistance, clothing closet, food pantry, homeless services and domestic violence interventions – responding to the real life emergencies that impact Native families and individuals.
Raphael House
(503) 222-6222Emergency shelter for families fleeing domestic violence. 24-hour hotline available (with language line support) – Russian, Spanish, English. Safety planning, advocacy, and other services. Pet friendly, confidential.
SAVE Fund (Sexual Assault Victims Emergency Medical Response)
(503) 378-5348Emergency medical services funding – covers medical exam costs, STI testing, emergency contraception and more for all victims of sexual assault who get an exam within 7 days. This is a state-run program.
Sexual Assault Resource Center
(503) 640-5311
(888) 640-5311SARC’s 24-hour anonymous, confidential, free support line offers a safe place for survivors and their loved ones to get immediate support. Confidential and free.
Volunteers of America – Home Free
(503) 771-5503 (DV + Sexual Assault Hotline: 8AM-5PM Mon–Fri)
(503) 802-0506 (Restraining Order Hotline: 8AM-4PM Mon-Fri)Crisis and supportive services to victims and survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. Long-term, post-crisis support is designed to prevent victims from having to return to an abusive home. Mobile, active advocacy that reduces the barriers to domestic violence support services. All services are free, flexible, individualized, and driven by survivors’ needs and goals. Calls after hours will be returned within one business day.
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Bradley Angle
(503) 235-5333 (24-hr crisis line)
(503) 232-1528 (Office)Bradley Angle works with a local network of domestic violence providers to help survivors fleeing domestic violence. Provides emergency housing and other services. Focused on serving Black and LGBTQ+ communities.
Forge
(414) 559-2123Information, resources, and referrals for trans+ survivors of domestic, sexual, or hate violence or stalking.
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Bradley Angle
(503) 235-5333 (24-hour crisis line)Bradley Angle works with a local network of domestic violence providers to help survivors fleeing domestic violence. Provides emergency housing and other services. Focused on serving Black and LGBTQ+ communities.
Impact NW
(503) 721-1740Impact NW provides a safety net for families in crisis, with services that connect them to housing and energy assistance while supporting them as they move toward independence. Will assist or refer callers.
Native American Youth and Family Center
(503) 288-8177Programming such as emergency energy assistance, clothing closet, food pantry, homeless services and domestic violence interventions – responding to the real life emergencies that impact Native families and individuals.
Raphael House
(503) 222-6222Emergency shelter for families fleeing domestic violence. 24-hour hotline available (with language line support) – Russian, Spanish, English. Safety planning, advocacy, and other services. Pet friendly, confidential. Serves anyone impacted by domestic violence regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, disability, immigration status, primary language, or sexuality.
West Women and Children’s Center*
(503) 731-3900Salvation Army emergency shelter for women and children seeking assistance. Also provides hygiene and school essentials. Open 24/7/365.
*Please note this resource is Christian-affiliated
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Child Abuse Hotline*
(855) 503-SAFE (7233)Oregon Dept. of Human Services hotline for reports of child abuse or neglect. 24/7 assistance available.
*Please note this is a State service and may work with law enforcement
Oregon Youthline
(877) 968-8491
Text “teen2teen” to 839863YouthLine is a free, confidential teen-to-teen crisis and help line. Reach a teen to talk between 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. daily – adults available by phone 24/7.
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Aging and Disability Services
(503) 988-3646 (24/7)
(503) 988-4450 (General)24-hour information and assistance to seniors, people with disabilities, and caregivers by assessing their needs, identifying services to meet those needs and linking them with providers of those services.
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Portland Alcohol and Drug Helpline
(503) 244-131224-hour helpline for people struggling with drug and alcohol addiction or abuse