Beyond Survival: Collective Healing in Lao Communities
Silent Burdens: Unseen Strength For five decades, beginning with the arrival of the first Lao refugees in 1975, our families have embodied perseverance and dedication to rebuilding life in a new country. All the while, they carried the invisible weight of forced migration, loss, and generational trauma. In many homes a quiet heaviness lingered, where grief was unspoken but deeply felt. Without the language, safety, or support to process what they had endured, many of our parents carried...
