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.

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.

Welcome to Ask Your Ates - A Filipinx Mental Health Podcast featuring Cynthia Siadat & Michelle Mercado Martinez
For this episode, we talk about how culture influences our mental health - but first we ask, what is culture?
How is culture defined and how does it affect how we show up in different context?
We discuss code-switching and the different ways of operating based on our Filipinx cultural upbringing.

We also ask about how culture informed our journey of mental health.
When did we realize that our perception of control was influenced by our generational trauma?
How did our lived experiences lead to us build our empathic skills in reading our family and community?

We also touch on 'kapwa' and how this value could be tainted based on our negative experience with community but not necessarily with culture. 

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.