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

In this in-depth episode, we ask you to take a moment for yourself upon immersing into the topic of grief.

We  ask the following questions on this episode:
What is grief?
How does it show up in your life/practice?
How do you manage your own grief?
What is complicated grief vs. "normal grief"?
What do you wish someone told you about grief?
When did you first come into contact with grief?

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.

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

This episode concludes the 3-Part series about decolonization. In this episode, we get into the topics of how colonization affected our childhood experience.
In the work to heal our inner child, we discuss growing up in a culture of fear or anxious attachment (or lack thereof)
We also ask the following questions:

How much fear is metabolized in our ancestors?

How does your perspective of colonization differ from your parents?

At what cost did we lose a part of ourselves in exchange for opportunity?

What is the work we are doing order to break the cycle in heal the generational trauma for ourselves, our family and our ancestors?

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.

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

Continuing the episode from Part 1 Cynthia and Michelle are back to unpack the topic of decolonization. 

How has colonization affected our mental health and our relationships?
How has 'gate-keeping' been a part of our journey?
What happens when we come to the understanding of decolonizing our own mind?
What is the difference between tolerance and inclusion?

Stay tuned to catch the conclusion of this episode for Part 3.

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.