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This article is an extended invitation to readers to cut back the stories of separation, hierarchy, and supremacy that dominate Western society, in order to make room for other stories of who we are and who we can be. The author weaves her own stories of healing during the COVID-19 pandemic with critical insights from Asian American studies, history, restorative justice, Indigenous knowledge, anthropology, and animist and Buddhist frameworks. In so doing, the article illuminates the vital role Asian American racialization plays in upholding oppressive systems and begins to articulate a path toward untethering from it in order to make space for all of our truer selves to emerge.