As a second-generation Chinese Canadian with mixed European ancestry, I grew up with a keen yet implicit awareness of my own bicultural identity. My father’s home country is Hong Kong; with his single suitcase in hand, he arrived in Canada with his older brother in his adolescent years. Together, they settled in Camrose, Alberta, where his grandparents operated a local luncheon. My mother’s family were homesteaders in rural Saskatchewan, where they tended to farm life and their local community in various roles. Growing up, I was someone who found tremendous freedom and joy in various sports – basketball became the sport I played in high school and college. Counselling psychology became the vocation I was drawn to after high school; this was fostered by the intrinsic motivation to give back from the healing and freedom I received in my own life in various ways.