S10E02: Why Do We Spend Our Lives Looking For Belonging? | Jean Seizure & Hun Ming Kwang

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Everyone wants to belong.Few realise how much of themselves they've abandoned just to fit in.Church.School.Family.Society.In Episode 2 of Beyond Pride: The Darkness We Battle, queer artist Jean Seizure joins Hun Ming Kwang, LGBTQ+ Ally, Master Coach, and InnerWork, Diversity, Inclusion, Deep Democracy & Process Work Facilitator for a deeply personal conversation about identity, belonging trauma, faith, family, and the lifelong search for community.Jean opens up about growing up in a conservative Christian environment, discovering her identity, being singled out in school, navigating rejection within church, carrying the pressure of public visibility, and learning to heal through art, therapy, and honest conversations.Together, Jean and Ming move beyond the surface of identity politics to explore the deeper human experiences that shape us all.They explore questions such as:• Why do we spend our lives searching for belonging?• How do childhood experiences continue to shape our relationships as adults?• What happens when faith and identity seem to collide?• Why do we keep repeating the same emotional patterns?• How do family histories silently influence the way we see ourselves?• Can we ever truly belong if we don't first belong to ourselves?Drawing from decades of work in trauma-informed inner work, diversity, inclusion, conflict facilitation and process work, Ming invites us to look beyond labels and into the invisible systems—family, culture, religion and inherited histories that quietly shape our lives.This conversation is about the universal longing to be accepted, understood and loved for who we are.Because perhaps the question isn't:"Where do I belong?"Perhaps it's:"What parts of myself have I abandoned in order to belong?"—Beyond Pride: The Darkness We BattleA season exploring the unseen emotional, psychological and relational realities behind LGBTQ+ lives in Singapore.Rather than debating identities, this season creates space for honest conversations around the inner lives we rarely speak about: belonging,