Press and other writing

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Facebuddha: Transcendence in the Age of Facebook and the Other Social Networks won a 2017 Nautilus Silver Book Award for Religion/Spirituality of Eastern Thought. 

My New York Daily News Op-Ed of March 28, 2015 (Deactivate Facebook and Become Human Again) went viral, staying the #1 most read article on the site for 3 days.  My letter about compassion in the therapeutic relationship was published in The New York Times on August 16, 2014, and my letter about social media was published in the International New York Times on April 13, 2015.  I have blogged for Psychology Today since 2011 (an average of two posts per month), and for the Center for Asian American Media since 2006, moving my Memoirs of a Superfan blog to Eastwind ezine in 2020, expanding my primary focus beyond CAAMFest, the Asian American Film Festival.  In San Francisco, I am a regular featured performer at poetry and prose events.  My poems were published in the California Book Award-winning anthology Indivisible:  A South Asian American Poetry Anthology, and my self-published book of poems, a fox peeks out, won an Honorable Mention in the San Francisco Book Festival in 2012.    I have also contributed to Hyphen and Nha Magazines.  I have been a guest speaker on several broadcast shows, including the BBC, “The Stream” on Al-Jazeera, AJ+, Judith Regan’s Sirius XM program, KPFA’s APEX Express and Talk It Out, the Matt Townsend Show on BYU Radio, and many others. The Pacific Heart podcast is available on Stitcher, Soundcloud and iTunes.

Miscellaneous articles

Greater Good Science Center: Six Tips for Loving Your Enemies (February 9. 2024)

Greater Good Science Center: The Eight Kinds of Humility That Can Help You Stay Grounded (August 22, 2023) – named one of the best GGSC articles of 2023!

Vulnerability Solidarity: A Campaign for Unity, Community, Depth, and Growth. Page 14, NCPS Newsletter, May/June 2023

Vulnerability Solidarity NCPS Newsletter May-June 2023 (PDF) Click here for JPEG.

Chandra R, Dunlap CE. SCOTUS Deals a Blow to American Diversity by Overturning Affirmative Action | Psychiatric News. July 14, 2023

Doximity Op-Med: Megalomania in the American Psyche: A Dangerous Conscious and Unconscious Influence (May 30, 2023)

Lion’s Roar: Someone I Love is Hurting (February 1, 2023)

Northern California Psychiatric Society: All Mental Health is Cultural Mental Health (May 21, 2021)

Hogg Foundation at the University of Texas, Austin: How We Should Respond to Anti-Asian Racism (May 10, 2021)

Center for Mindful Self Compassion: Medicine for Difficult Times (August 9, 2019)

Greater Good Science Center: How to Use Social Media Wisely and Mindfully (January 19, 2018)

Facebuddha press, audio and video

At Facebuddha.co

Broadcast and Online audio and video

Ageism – Why You Should Care At Any Age – Apple Podcasts and Podbean. Liana Kerzner’s “It’s Not Therapy!” podcast, broadcast August 8, 2024.

On Trump, the Goldwater Rule, and Compassion. Influence Continuum/Freedom of Mind Podcast with Steven Hassan (YouTube, Apple Podcasts. Substack, broadcast July 15, 2024.)

“Changing the World with Empathy and Love” Purposeful Empathy Podcast with Anita Nowak (Apple Podcasts, YouTube, Instagram, LinkedIn) (January 19, 2023)

What is PRGS (Pandemic Reverse Ghosting Syndrome)? For Dublin, Ireland’s Room 104 with Cormac Moore and Saoirse Long (7/23/20)

How to Cultivate Love, Peace and Compassion in a World Full of Pain & Restlessness, for Harvesting Happiness with Lisa Cypers Kamen (2/12/20)

CultureChat podcast with Mimi Chan, 2/12/19: On gun culture, and Asian American identity and mental health

NBC Asian Pacific America with Robert Handa, 7/3/18: On gun control (other appearance at facebuddha.co)

If you’re not white, it’s harder to get mental health care (AJ+)

Assault on the American Mind  (BYU Radio): about campus sensitivities and protests (12/9/2015)

Bullet Train Ep 4: Japanese Romance Simulation Games (Asian Pacific Arts, with Ada Tseng) (4/30/2015)

Queens International Catalog

Data, the Social Being and the Social Network, a response to Vivian Qin’s KZ (2016) at the Queens Museum

Clinical Psychiatry News

Amazon, Toxicity and Helping Patients Find Resilience (PDF of webpage: Amazon, toxicity, and helping patients find resilience | MDedge Psychiatry)

Hyphen Magazine

These Three Things – Mindfulness, Compassion and Relationship – These Three Things_FINAL

Hapa Hollywood – Directors Eric Byler and Mora Stephens – hapahollywood

Firebreather – Artist Kana Tanaka takes Blowtorching Seriously – kanatanaka

The Power of the Journey – Director Socheata Poeuv’s New Year Baby – Hyphen15_Chandra

Nha (Home) Magazine

Tech Troubles – Tech_Troubles

Goh Nakamura – Goh Love Someone – Goh_love_someone

Anger – the good, the bad and the beautiful – Asian American Anger-Nha mag

Veterans of War, Veterans of Peace – vetbookrev_1107

Others:

Writing Like An Asian: Five Questions with Ravi Chandra