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Emotional Health and Well-Being
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Apr 07, 2025
When our Mom graduated from a Seoul area high school in 1963, her family didn't have the money to send her to university. Thankfully, she had a friend whose father hired our Mom to do secretarial work for a local hospital. She saved what she could from that job and ultimately put herself through a 2-year college program to earn her diploma. Read more
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jan 20, 2025
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Dec 16, 2024
As a young child of immigrant parents in Canada, I didn't speak much English when I began kindergarten. I was the only East Asian child in my class, and my Mom tells me that I had terrible separation anxiety over the first few weeks of school. Read more
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Apr 15, 2024
The more intimately we get to know someone, the more clearly we see their shortcomings.
This is why some relationships fail. It's why family members can be abandoned, and why some friendships don't last. Read more
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Mar 27, 2024
My view has long been that a primary determinant of our health is the quality of our relationships.
Conventional education doesn't teach how to share from the heart or how to listen with pure intent to understand. Read more
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Feb 25, 2024
A while back, I stumbled upon the following priceless commercial that aired in Malaysia over the Chinese New Year holiday several years back. Most of it is painfully familiar to Asians of my generation and I'm guessing to many from other cultures as well. The closing scene never fails to leave me with a heavy lump in my chest.
I hope you have a chance to enjoy this lovely look at some of the different types of success that we can experience in this world: Read more
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Feb 05, 2024
The other day, a close friend asked me to recall a time when I was astounded by an unexpected event. Read more
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Feb 03, 2024
One of the joys of spending time in Korea this past year was getting to know people like the barber I visited monthly. In sharing life stories, I was genuinely surprised by her fascination with my mindset as a dad. Read more
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jan 28, 2024
Schadenfreude is a German word that refers to the human capacity to experience pleasure in another person's suffering. It's an unhealthy form of envy that is highly damaging to the person who feels it. Read more
Posted by Dr. Ben Kim on Jan 15, 2024
In caring for our health and relationships, I find value in understanding our innate level of happiness and natural strengths.
Dr. Albert Brooks uses a simple 20-question quiz to determine one's natural level of happiness, and what types of personalities mesh well. Read more
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