The South Asian Mind Sayaka Sayeed

Today we will be talking about the how to identify and express our needs and the importance of advocating for ourselves. This week’s session with Sandi from Insession Counselling will focus on the question: Why do South Asian women feel guilty about setting boundaries and how would they go about asking for what they need? 

This episode with Dr. Tina Mistry focusses on emerging adulthood and what it means to experience a Quarter Life Crisis. As South Asians, we often feel pulled to live by our families expectations and also push back to seek agency and feel self-reliant. This podcast helps us understand how we can all combat the experiences we may face during emerging adulthood to help us live more authentic lives.

Today Davina's bringing you a crash course on when and how to get a life coach who’s great for YOU, steps you can take to sprinkle in mindfulness and pull out some stress from your life.

In South Asian culture, dating, relationships, sex and emotions aren’t really talked about. Instead, many of us get our education of relationships from the media which is skewed towards white heteronormative relationships. On our sixth episode, we'll dive into these experiences and the skills needed to navigate romantic relationships.

Trigger Warning: PTSD from sexual assault! In this episode, we talk about what PTSD is, where it originated from and its symptoms. PTSD is very complex and so there’s not really a straightforward solution to it, but Prathiba and I have tried our best to talk about how you may be able to understand it through some examples and we encourage you to reach out for professional help and opinions if the content in this episode relates to you in any way and brings up past trauma.

This week we’re talking to Poorni Selvaraja about how you can identify and use inner child work as a powerful technique for healing and connecting with your elders and yourself. THIS is an episode you NEED in your life.