Healing the Tigress: An AAPI Maternal Mental Health Podcast
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: An AAPI Maternal Mental Health Podcast
BONUS EPISODE 9: Should Our Kids Go To Chinese School?
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Healing the Tigress Bonus Episodes
Exclusive access to bonus episodes!As children of immigrants, Peggy and Jasmine both grew up speaking Chinese in their households and attending Chinese School on the weekends. In this episode, we share about our personal experiences learning Chinese and how/why the end results may have differed in our later years despite both of us attending the same length of schooling. We also talk about how our experiences may be shaping our journey to teaching our children the language now and some of the mental toll it has taken.
This episode explores our personal desires to try to preserve our mother tongue but also the grief of letting some things go in the bicultural world our children are growing up in. We share what we have tried with our school-aged kids to teach them Chinese, as well as the things we don't want to sacrifice or compromise on. Jasmine has pivoted many times (and is doing so again)!
A good companion episode to go with this one is Episode 38: Permission to Break Generational Cycles with Dr. Jenny Wang, who also shares about her daughter taking a hiatus from Chinese learning during the pandemic and the reasons why she chose to let go of pursuing language.
So, should our kids go to Chinese school? Check out our Subscriber episode today and let us know if you have any thoughts! This is a conversation that has been ongoing and shifting between us for quite some time, and we welcome the discourse!
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