Chai Chats Podcast

This week Parneet brings up a theme that has been coming up with her clients - that of experiences of love, joy and kindness actually feeling traumatic when pain, abuse, and dysfunction is what is familiar. We talk about strategies for healing this which emphasize the importance of community and external validation.

This week we spend some time envisioning the podcast and how we want it to go, and introduce the topic of jealousy, which we use as a starting point to branch into the topics of the importance of female friendship, the unfortunate ways heteronormative societal programming affects men and women, and more on the topic of just striving for healthy relationships !

S1E10 - Joy by Chai Chats Podcast

We discuss the concept of toxic masculinity and how we see it playingout in and affecting our personal lives.

This week we talk about the struggle to be one's genuine self while attempting to maintain relationships with biological relatives.

This week's episode is on sadness & mental health struggles.

In this extra special bonus episode of Chai Chats Podcast, we continued recording after our previous hour on the Essential self, and found we had a great deal more insight to share on this topic. Enjoy !

This week we explore the concept of the essential self, along with using medication to treat mental illness and a plethora of other related topics.

Our decision to sit on the outside couch this week ended up completely determining the course of our conversation, which touched on colonization, gentrification, the complex questions surrounding what it means to live consciously in a neighbourhood, and an overall a theme of place. - How space affects us and how we in turn affect the spaces around us.

This week Malek and I explore building friendships as a path to community, miss Parneet and her anchoring metaphors, talk about how it is helpful to think about friendships separately from romantic relationships, and also how everybody should try to be the next Drake.

In this episode we talk about bodies! How to listen to them, how to take care of our bodies while navigating a world where dominant capitalist ideologies ask us to make our bodies slaves to our minds. Parneet shares an amazing analogy of viewing oneself as being in a polyamorous relationship with the mind, body, and heart/emotional self. Books/Articles we reference in this Episode: Gabor Mate - When the Body Says No drgabormate.com/preview/when-the-…s-no-chapter-one/ Sick Woman Theory by Johanna Hedva: www.maskmagazine.com/not-again/stru…k-woman-theory Shonda Rhimes - The Year of Yes Kai Cheng Thom - Writer ladysintrayda.wordpress.com/ Barbie Mom www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-moms/…ie-doll-w167455

This week we talk about boundaries! Specifically surrounding emotional labour, and working towards reciprocity in romantic, platonic, and friendship relationships. Episode Breakdown: 8:00 - People get upset when you set boundaries. 15:12 - How Difficulties with setting boundaries connects with past trauma. 19:47 - Money Metaphor for understanding Emotional Boundaries

Episode 1 - Dreams We discuss personal, professional, and artistic dreams, and the way the dreams of our parents and our ancestors affect our capacity for dreaming in our own lives. We also talk about 'walking the walk' of being a feminist/ally versus just talking the talk. Episode Breakdown: 1:29 - Dreams 15:08 - Trauma 33:32 - Fake Feminists [Trigger Warning - 34:42 - Reference to a sexual assault and discussion of its implications for the speaker's life] Produced by Nicole Almond