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Podcast: Insight Myanmar
Episode: Drawing a Line Between Hope and Fear
Description: Kyawt Thiri Nyunt’s journey from Myanmar to the United States at age 19 was not just a physical one, but a cultural and psychological one as well. She had traveled to enroll in a small liberal arts college in California, having won a full merit scholarship. But then came the pressure of integrating into a new environment, on top of the anxiety to achieve, and so she did something she had never done before: she began therapy to explore the stress that was building up inside her.The therapy also uncovered deep-rooted trauma that she had been ho...