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How to Cut Fruit for Yourself™
A Culturally Grounded Program for those navigating life between cultures, who learned to give care long before they learned to keep any for themselves.
In so many of our families, someone would quietly peel and slice fruit and bring it to you without asking. It was love, handed over without explanation. If you grew up where love was practical and words were scarce, you know exactly what this means.
But somewhere along the way, you picked up the habit of doing that for everyone else and forgot to do it for yourself.
This program invites you to turn that gesture inward. To practice self-compassion in the way it was always meant to feel and something you actually do. And to reparent yourself: by learning, now, to give yourself what care looks like going forward. Reparenting gets talked about a lot. What it means, why it matters. The how, less so — especially when you're doing it without a template, without people around you who speak this language, and with a guilt that sits quiet underneath every good thing.
A gentle, skills-based group coaching space rooted in culture, care and community.
You might be the one who immigrated, or the one who grew up watching parents navigate a country that wasn’t built for them. First generation, second generation, or somewhere in between, this program is for you if:
You're struggling to extend that same generosity and care you give others, to yourself.
You're ready to examine the stories you inherited — about worth, about need, about who gets to rest and start relearning new ones.
You're looking for care that sees the different parts of you, including the parts shaped by culture, family, and the particular exhaustion of living between worlds.
You want to learn from someone with lived experience in this, not just clinical knowledge.
You want to do this work in community with people who don't need the context explained.
If this feels like you, this is a space created for us.
““I can acknowledge and pay homage to my roots, upbringing and values that I’ve gathered along the way from my culture. But also allowing myself to have boundaries and/or let go of things that no longer serve/are a disservice..”
”.. expertly guided accountability, a sense of solidarity, shared learnings..”
”.. I already have recommended.. to a colleague who has spoken about how sometimes it feels that their Asian culture holds them back from being a “leader” at work..””
For over twelve years, I walked into therapy rooms and heard the same story wearing different faces. I know these stories from the inside, too. Finding care for myself has not come easily and I have lived the particular difficulty of knowing, clinically, what self-compassion looks like and still not being able to reach it at times. When I became a parent, and being faced with the same patterns again. The pull to do something with all of this became undeniable. This program is that doing. Twelve years of clinical learning and lived experience, shaped into a program designed by and for our community.
The Program
‘How to Cut Fruit for Yourself’ is a warm, skills-based group space for People of Colour (POC) including adult children of immigrants who grew up holding more than one world at once, led by Clinical Psychologist Vi Tran. Over six weeks, through the lens of self-compassion, reparenting and culture, you'll learn how to turn care inward as something that belongs to you. Even as adults we can learn new ways to foster kindness and show up for ourselves with wisdom and respect
This is not therapy and not a lecture. It is a space to practice. The approaches are evidence-based drawn from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Compassion Focused Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Schema Therapy — but the knowledge in the room isn't only academic. Lived experience is always in the room, including mine.
What we’ll explore
Over six weeks, we'll look at the patterns that formed before you had language for them — and begin, slowly, to soften them. Reparenting yourself through a cultural lens. The narratives and values you inherited, and what it means to examine them with care rather than rejection. The long habit of sacrifice. How to pause, breathe, and return to yourself with presence. Daily tools for emotion regulation that work in real life, not just in theory.
What You’ll Receive:
6 x Live Group Online Coaching Sessions with Vi Tran and special guest Vi-An Nguyen
6 x Pre-recorded Self-Paced Modules with culturally responsive, evidence-informed content (12-month access, with flexible extensions available)
Thoughtfully designed Workbooks for each module, created to help you reflect
Session Replays (Available as guided by the group, protecting the sensitivity of what's shared)
A Community of a small group of people who understand the particular weight of being between worlds (Maximum 10 participants purposefully kept small.)
When and Where?
When: 7:00PM – 8:00PM AEST
Dates: Every Tuesday from 21 July - 25 August 2026, for 6 weeks
Format: Live online group sessions + self paced modules accessed via a Learning Portal with pre-recorded Modules (12 months access)
We're holding this online so that everyone across the lands we know as Australia can access it.