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The PedsDocTalk Podcast

“But What Will People Say?” Breaking cultural stereotypes surrounding mental health conversations

The PedsDocTalk Podcast

Dr. Mona Amin

Medicine, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family, Parenting

51.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2024

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Do you know the cultural differences that can exist being immigrant parents and the mental health issues that are unique? Whether you come from an immigrant household or not, this episode is a must to really dive into the cultural stereotypes that exist surrounding mental health and, subsequently, how we show up for our children. I welcome Sahaj Kaur Kohli who is the founder of Brown Girl Therapy (@browngirltherapy), the first and largest mental health and wellness community organization for adult children of immigrants, a licensed therapist, and author of the Book, But What Will People Say: Navigating mental health, identity, love, and family between cultures. She joins me to discuss: The difference between collectivist and individualistic cultures and why the distinction is important Why diversity in mental health and parenting resources is important What struggles immigrant parents have that may be unique We love the sponsors that make this show possible! You can always find all the special deals and codes for all our current sponsors on the PedsDocTalk Podcast Sponsors page of the website. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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What are other people going to say about this? And they didn't mean anything by it, right? They didn't mean like we don't care about you. You don't deserve healing. But for them, it's a very real fear. An immigrant households and immigrant communities were very insular because it protects

1:15.5

us from the dominant society and in some ways that protection then becomes almost an inward struggle

1:22.3

for many people who are in those communities because we are so concerned about what our

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reputation is if we're saving face within that community, but also to the outside dominant world

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Hello and welcome back to the show, whether you're driving, exercising, meal prepping,

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eating or whatever it is that you do while tuning into podcasts.

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Thank you.

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It means so much that you're here today.

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