Healing the Tigress
A podcast that focuses on conversations & stories around Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) maternal mental health, hosted by PPD and PPA survivors Peggy (LCSW, PMH-C) & Jasmine (PharmD, PMH-C). We know that mental health is not talked about enough in our AAPI communities, and we want to break these stigmas especially for mothers and partners. We talk with AAPI guests about different mood disorders and parenting, particularly what that looks like through the lens of our culture within the Western world. We hope this podcast reminds you that you are not alone in your struggles as an AAPI parent!
Episodes
29 episodes
Ep. 27 - The Manicurist's Daughter: A Story of Death and Rebirth of Motherhood with Susan Lieu
For this next episode, we were so excited to interview Susan Lieu, the Vietnamese American author of the moving memoir The Manicurist's Daughter. This debut memoir has been featured not only on Apple but in the New York Times, NPR book...
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Ep. 26 - To Tend and To Hold: Pregnancy and Infant Loss with Eileen Santos Rosete
Trigger Warning: We will be discussing pregnancy loss in this episode.In honor of Pregnancy and Infant Loss Month, we wanted to share the story of our next guest, Eileen Santos Rosete. Eileen is Filipino American and it's fitting she is ...
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Episode 26
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Ep. 25 - The Impact of a Fitness Blogger's Postpartum Depression Story with Sia Clyde
Today's guest has a personal story behind it, and we're very honored to have on Sia Clyde, an influential mommy fitness blogger and NASM-certified personal trainer! When Jasmine (one of our show's co-hosts) was in the depths of her post...
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Episode 25
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47:39
Ep. 24 - Remembering Nima: A Husband's Voice in the Fight Against Maternal Suicide with Deven Bhakta
Maternal suicide is one of the leading causes of maternal mortality in the U.S. and up to 20% of maternal deaths are due to suicide. People of color are more likely to report suicidal ideation in the immediate postpartum period as compared to t...
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Episode 24
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1:01:23
Ep. 23 - Love Makes A Family: A Gay Father's Surrogacy Journey with Henry Tieu
One of the things we really wanted to make sure to do on Healing the Tigress was to be as inclusive as possible of all our AAPI folks’ stories. And that also means we want to make sure to highlight stories of AAPI LGBTQ+ parents and th...
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Episode 23
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Ep. 22 - Kicking off Season Two: Big Announcements and Surprises!
We are baaack!! We can't believe we're in a second season of Healing the Tigress and we truly have you, the listeners, to thank!In this opening episode for the season, Jasmine and Peggy catch everyone up with what Peggy has bee...
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Episode 22
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Ep. 21 - Healing Our Makuahine with Dr. Kalena Kaopuuokalani Lanuza, DNP, FNP-C, PMHNP-BC, CLC
For our season finale, we are joined by the wonderful Dr. Kalena Kaopuuokalani Lanuza, who is a doctorally prepared Certified Family and Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner and Certified Lactation Counselor. She specializes in reproduc...
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Episode 21
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1:00:03
Ep. 20 - Becoming Dad: The Catalyst to Mental Health with Dr. Matt Dinh, PharmD
For Father's Day and Men's Mental Health Month, we wanted to get another AAPI dad on the show to talk about their experience in fatherhood in relationship to mental health. Joining us for this episode is Dr. Matt Dinh,...
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Episode 20
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Ep. 19 - Keeping Faith in the Journey of IVF with Dr. Joyce Park, MD
Infertility impacts one in six people of reproductive age and nearly one in four female physicians who are trying to have a baby face infertility issues. This statistic is no mystery to our guest, Dr. Joyce Park, who many of you may know as @Te...
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Episode 19
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42:00
Ep. 18 - Bipolar Disorder and the Pursuit of Motherhood with Michelle Yang
Bipolar disorder affects 2-3% of the general population, and about half of the women with bipolar disorder are first diagnosed in the postpartum period. In today's episode, we talk with a mother with lived experience of bipolar 1 disorder a...
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Episode 18
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57:47
Ep. 17 - Debunking Myths about Perinatal Psychiatric Medications with Dr. Niya Dhand, MD
For Maternal Mental Health Month, we knew we wanted to have a discussion on medications in the perinatal period. Because as much as AAPI folks can be reluctant to do therapy, they can also be just as wary about taking medications. But sometimes...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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49:29
Ep. 16 - The Untold Story of Postpartum Insomnia with Dr. Jasmine, PharmD, PMH-C
Many of you have heard or read about Dr. Jasmine's postpartum depression story and know that insomnia was a huge piece of the story. While "postpartum ins...
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Episode 16
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54:50
Ep. 15 - Demystifying Perinatal Obsessive Compulsive Disorder with Allison Livingston
We are thrilled to have Allison Livingston on our podcast for today's episode to talk about her lived experience with perinatal obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and postpartum depression (PPD). Allison is a Korean-American adoptee and a ...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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51:41
Ep. 14 - How We Break the Stigma Through Sharing Stories with Shivani Hiralal
TW: Topics of miscarriage and suicide are briefly discussed in this episode.You may recognize our next guest from a New York Times story featuring real-life women's stories on postpartum depression last summer. In this ep...
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Episode 14
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57:59
Ep. 13 - The Invisible Struggle of Miscarriage & Secondary Infertility with Val (@thewabisabimama)
Recently we had an episode on the decision to have just one child, but there is another side to “one and done” families who may not be this way by choice. We offer a Trigger Warning before you listen that this episode does talk about miscarriag...
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Episode 13
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Ep. 12 - Public Policy, Prejudice, and Postpartum with Divya Kumar, LICSW, ScM, PMH-C
The episode today is rich with a wide range of topics from public policy, to race and racism, to PPD/PPA/PPOCD. A heartwarming message we also get to highlight is how it’s never too late to change your career and chase your dreams. <...
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Episode 12
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1:04:54
Ep. 11 - Behind the Choice of Being One and Done with Shannon Eng
TW: Miscarriages are briefly discussed in this episode.If you asked Shannon Eng when she was younger how many kids she wanted, she might have told you ten! She thought she wanted a lot of children, despite being an only child herself. An...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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57:26
Ep. 10 - "Untigering" in Motherhood, Parenting, and Reclaiming Identity with Iris Chen
You may know our latest guest as the popular "Untigering" on Instagram or from her book by the same name. Iris Chen is a recovering tiger mother, parent coach, and founder of the Untigering movement. After seeing the negative effects ...
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Episode 10
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57:38
Ep. 9 - The Grief Catcher: Fatherhood in Postpartum with J.S. Park
TW: We do discuss suicidal thoughts and miscarriage in this episode.Even though Healing the Tigress is about maternal mental health, we cannot have these conversations with just moms. Men, dads, partners all play a role in the...
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Episode 9
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Ep. 8 - Motherhood Overseas: Navigating Traumatic Birth and Postpartum Abroad with Tisha Kachhapati, MBPsS, MBACP
Please help us welcome our first international guest! Tisha Kachhapati, MBPsS, MBACP, is a Nepalese American psychodynamic counselor now living abroad and based in the United Kingdom for the past decade. She is what we would consider an ex-pat,...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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56:23
Bonus Episode - Re-cap Before the Holidays!
We took a short break while Jasmine was studying for her PMH-C test, but now that she has taken it and passed (yay!), we wanted to throw in one last bonus episode for 2023. Pull up a chair and grab a mug of hot cocoa (or your drink of choice) t...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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31:40
Ep. 7 - How Gentle Parenting Started the Journey to Healing and Identity with KJ Althoff
A lot of AAPI parents these days are breaking generational cycles by parenting differently. You may know KJ Althoff as "Gentle Healing Mom" on Instagram, and in today's episode, we have the honor to hear her share her story for th...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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1:00:28
Ep. 6 - Postpartum Depression Cannot Be Boxed Into One Year with Leah Kim
Leah Kim has been a long-time writer and champion of mental health, narrating her personal stories and essays so poignantly about her childhood trauma, growing up a daughter of a mentally unwell mother, and then battling postpartum depression (...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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58:14
Ep. 5 - Holding Onto Joy After Pregnancy Losses with Katrina dela Cruz, LCSW
Trigger Warning: This episode discusses Pregnancy Loss and Termination For Medical Reasons“The Sun shone brightest the day you returned to the sky,” writes Katrina dela Cruz to her son, Zeo Thomas, who was 19 weeks in the womb when s...
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Episode 5
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53:08
Ep. 4 - Finding the Good Enough Mother during Postpartum Anxiety with Peggy, LCSW
What happens when you’re a mental health professional who knows more than enough about postpartum depression and you embark on your own postpartum journey—only to discover that there’s a whole world of postpartum anxiety you’ve never seen?<...
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Episode 4
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