Welcome to Ask Your Ates - A Filipinx Mental Health Podcast featuring Cynthia Siadat & Michelle Mercado Martinez

Happy New Year! For many of you looking to learn about your indigenous roots, shift mindset, and unlearn behavior, tune in to this 3-Part episode about decolonization.

What does decolonization mean to you?
How does decolonization work show up in our mental health practice?
Don't miss out on the continuing conversation for Part 2 & 3.

List of resources mentioned in the episode to start your decolonizing journey:

· History of the Philippines: From Indios Bravos to Filipinos by Luis H. Francia

· The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race by Anthony Christian Ocampo

· Filipino American Psychology: A Collection of Personal Narratives by Kevin L. Nadal PhD

· Filipino American Psychology: A Handbook of Theory, Research, and Clinical Practice by Kevin L. Nadal PhD

· Way of the Ancient Healer: Sacred Teachings from the Philippine Ancestral Traditions by Virgil Mayor Apostol

· Brown Skin, White Minds: Filipino - American Postcolonial Psychology by E. J. R. David

· Babaylan: Filipinos and the Call of the Indigenous by Leny Mendoza Strobel

· Back from the Crocodile's Belly: Philippine Babaylan Studies and the Struggle for Indigenous Memory by S. Lily Mendoza and Leny Mendoza Strobel

·Empire of Care: Nursing and Migration in Filipino American History by Catherine Ceniza Choy

* Please note that these are suggestions as starting points, any way of exploring decolonization work in your own personal experience is welcome.

Tune in as we discuss topics about mental health centered on the Filipinx experience.

Join us on the journey to destigmatize, decolonize and normalize mental health in the Filipino diaspora. We want to hear from you! What questions do you have about mental health? Feel free to email them to us at askyouratespodcast@gmail.com!

Special thanks to our community of partners for their support for this podcast, to Archie of Filipino Fridays Podcast for her work editing & producing this much needed resource for our community, to Danny Martinez for creating our beautiful graphic & Fahad Siadat for composing our wonderful music.