Yellow Chair Collective: The Podcast

To kick off season 2 of our podcast, we are exploring modern dating through dating apps!  This week, we invite our two psychotherapists, Angelica Sun, MFT and Angela Nguyen, MSW to share their stories around navigating dating, dating apps. They talk about the experience of dating during the pandemic, navigating intentions with dating, and concerns around safety. Please follow our podcast and our Instagram @yellowchaircollective to stay updated with us, and share this episode with your friends!  For more info about us and our services, visit https://yellowchaircollective.com. Music from our podcast by Dean Reed: https://fromthevalley.bandcamp.com/

Each sibling role often comes with a set of cultural expectations that affect the way our families treat us, and the way we participate in our families in response. This week, we invite a panel of YCC staff to share their stories around their sibling roles. Our therapists talk about the responsibilities of the eldest sibling and being a "3rd parent", the inferiority complex of being the youngest sibling, and how these roles can shift when families experience hard times. Please follow our podcast and our Instagram @yellowchaircollective to stay updated with us, and share this episode with your friends!  For more info about us and our services, visit https://yellowchaircollective.com.

Holidays can be a difficult time for many, and maybe especially so for people who come from different cultural backgrounds. This week, we invite a panel of YCC therapists to share their stories about going through the holiday season. Our therapists talk about being in relationship with people of different cultural backgrounds, the role of grief for Asian immigrants celebrating holidays in the United States, and adapting to new traditions and ways of celebrating. Please follow our podcast and our Instagram @yellowchaircollective to stay updated with us, and share this episode with your friends!  For more info about us and our services, visit https://yellowchaircollective.com.

This past year has been a particularly rough one for Asians living in the United States, with our communities being targeted with racially hateful rhetoric and hate crimes. This week, we invite viral HuffPost Writer and our YCC therapist and Sharon Kwon, MSW, to share their reflections on racial stress and trauma in the past year. Sharon also shares helpful tips about how to identify internalized racism, what racial stress & trauma feels like, and how to draw healing from within our communities. Please follow our podcast and our Instagram @yellowchaircollective to stay updated with us, and share this episode with your friends!  For more info about us and our services, visit https://yellowchaircollective.com.

Asian Women are often subjected to not just body expectations from their families, but also from their respective cultural backgrounds. This week, we invite our YCC Asian Women & Femme Body Image group facilitators Angela Nguyen, MSW and Catherine Vu, LMFT, to share their personal stories of their body acceptance journeys. We talk about growing up with family members who comment on your weight, and living in communities with clashing body ideals. Angela & Catherine also share helpful tips about how we can reframe our thoughts, so we can begin seeing and accepting our bodies, free from societal expectations and judgment. Please follow our podcast and our Instagram @yellowchaircollective to stay updated with us, and share this episode with your friends!  For more info about us and our services, visit https://yellowchaircollective.com.

Have you been feeling more exhausted, detached and unsatisfied from your work? You may be experiencing burnout! This week, we invite our resident YCC expert, Kat Chan, LMFT, to share her personal story of burnout and her transition into the mental health field. We talk about the 3 dimensions of burnout to look out for, and what to do if you feel yourself burning out. Kat also shares the many different types of rest that we can tap into, so that we can take care of ourselves in ways that we might not have thought of before. Please follow our podcast and our Instagram @yellowchaircollective to stay updated with us, and share this episode with your friends! For more info about us and our services, visit https://yellowchaircollective.com

Have you ever wondered about the cultural similarities and differences we have in these communities? This week, we invite some of our Latinx & Asian therapists on the podcast to talk about cultural similarities and differences in our communities in conjunction with National Hispanic/Latinx Heritage Month. our therapists share their experiences working interracially, as well as their own journeys of unpacking their own experiences growing up in our respective communities. Please follow our podcast and our Instagram @yellowchaircollective to stay updated with us, and share this episode with your friends! For more info about us and our services, visit https://yellowchaircollective.com