Episode #81
How does being High Funtioning mask Healing Response? with Gina Dang
Gina and I first met in the healing world around Pasadena, so I knew the shape of her work before we sat down, but I had not heard the whole arc. She was born in Los Angeles to parents who fled Vietnam by boat, her childhood carrying violence, neglect, and intergenerational weight. School was the safe place, so she processed it all from the neck up. That held until she had the degree, the job, the apartment — and then it stopped. Her line for what she learned next: knowing is not healing. She could name it and still could not stop the panic. What changed: a room that did not ask her to explain herself. As a student getting weekly treatments, a panic attack hit her in clinic; her supervisor told her to stay, then put her on the table. Her eyes fluttered, a colleague asked why, the supervisor said: it is just chaos leaving the system. She teaches from that image now: what moves through you can be passing, not who you are. We talk about the semester she stopped to travel; Japanese acupuncture's blind lineage-holders; and her grandfather, blinded in the war. Then we get practical: what she sees in bodies, and a client whose fast talk buried her pulses, until a sprained ankle did what her calendar never would. What Gina is after is not a better patient — someone who can feel their own rhythm clearly enough to stop running on somebody else's. Stay curious. - - - - - About the Guest: Dr. Gina Dang is a liberatory embodiment guide and licensed acupuncturist blending somatic trauma work, Taoist alchemy and anthropology. She studied anthropology at UC Berkeley before coming to this medicine sideways. She enrolled in a Japanese-style acupuncture program in Northern California planning one semester, and stayed for a master's and doctorate. She practiced first in Oregon before serving Los Angeles County with in-home acupuncture and coaching built on somatic awareness, Human Design, Taoist alchemy and earth-based practice, plus group facilitation. She also writes Auric Minority, described as a soft anthropology of consciousness for curious minds and soft hearts. - - - - - Social Handles: Website: ginadang.com Substack: auricminority.substack.com - - - - - Dr. Alya Ahmad, MD, FAAP LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alya-ahmad-md-0601b190/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/shamynds/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/shamynds Website: https://shamynds.com/ Dr. Suraiya Simi Rahman, MD, FAAP Website: https://palamedicine.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/suraiya-rahman-palamedicine/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pala_medicine/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/palamedicine.pasadena/ Too Curious MDs Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/toocuriousmds?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qr YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TooCuriousMDs - - - - - PODCAST Thank you for listening. Please subscribe and share. This podcast is produced by DrTalks.com https://drtalks.com/podcast-service/
