"The first of its kind, Permission to Come Home is a crucial resource for the rapidly growing community of Asian Americans, immigrants, and other minorities and marginalized people to practice mental and emotional self-care. This book helps readers work on their mental health while understanding and honoring the richness of their heritage and embodying a new, complete, and whole identity. Throughout, Dr. Jenny Wang weaves together personal stories of strength, pain, and resilience with incisive analysis of Asian American and immigrant identities and how they affect our individual and collective mental health"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes reading group guide.

Permission to question --Permission to feel -- Permission to rage -- Permission to say no -- Permission to take up space -- Permission to choose -- Permission to fail -- Permission to play -- Permission to grieve -- Permission to come home.