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Healing the Tigress
A podcast that focuses on conversations & stories around Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) maternal mental health, hosted by Taiwanese American mothers Peggy (LCSW, PMH-C) & Jasmine (PharmD, PMH-C) who are also postpartum depression and postpartum anxiety survivors.
Mental health is not talked about enough in our AAPI communities, and we want to break these stigmas especially for mothers and partners. As AAPI healthcare providers who personally struggled during postpartum and are now perinatal mental health certified, we want to see more representation of other AAPI parents who know how important it is to take care of our mental health.
We talk with AAPI guests about a variety of themes in mental health and parenting, particularly what that looks like through the lens of our culture within the Western world. There are also discussions with professionals in the field, to help our providers and allies. We're not afraid to talk about the hard things that might seem taboo. We hope this podcast reminds you that you are not alone in your struggles as an AAPI parent!
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Healing the Tigress
BONUS EPISODE: The Mental Load of Motherhood
This episode is only available to subscribers.
Healing the Tigress Bonus Episodes
Exclusive access to bonus episodes!**Thank you for supporting us if you are listening to this Subscriber Only episode!** We are not here to make a profit, but it does really help to get some support to keep this show running. So from the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU again for that!
This episode originally aired to our Patreon subscribers last year, but as we sunset Patreon, we're going to slowly release those Patreon episodes here within Buzzsprout Subscriptions and continue producing new bonus episodes for subscribers to listen to. (Disclaimer: Jasmine's audio was a little weird this day, and we apologize that the sound quality is not up to our usual standards! It will be better going forward!)
In this episode, Jasmine and Peggy chat about what is known as the "mental load of motherhood" and how this has evolved over time for them from being moms to babies to now being moms to school-age children. We talk about how our generation has a different mental load than our parents' generation also because we have more access to social comparison at our fingertips or even how some of these stressors are uniquely American.
We chat about kids in extracurriculars, what we've learned about communicating with our partners in parenthood to split the caretaking and household work, how moms just "worry better," and even a Bluey episode that resonates! It's all raw and unfiltered conversation, so you'll hear how we typically chat with each other.
Let us know if there's more topics you'd like to hear about in the future!
Referenced in the episode:
Jasmine's Newsletter on Productivity and Boundaries in Motherhood
Bluey Episode Faceytalk Season 3 Ep 24
Healing the Tigress Episode 7 with KJ Althoff (@gentlehealingmom)
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