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S08E06 - Maya Atiqah & Brenda Ng - Learning To Keep Going
What drives years of self-harm and abuse from a young age?
How does it go undetected until it is almost too late?
In this episode of Clean Your Toilet Podcast, we step into the world of 19-year-old physiotherapy assistant, Maya Atiqah, who recounts with Brenda Ng, Chief Fun(d) Officer, The Facilitators Project & Forest School coach, her journey of navigating self-harm and abuse as a coping mechanism to what she could not express growing up.
Family instability, emotional neglect, and the absence of a safe space to speak meant that much of what she was feeling stayed locked inside.
With distress is often being misread in young people, well-meaning comments like “you have a good life” can unintentionally shut conversations down, and result in the escalation of coping mechanisms. A lack of awareness and the inabilty to recognize what she was doing to herself meant things spiralled out of control and threatened her well-being in more ways than one.
Together, Maya and Brenda explore the parts of mental health that rarely get talked about openly:
✨ Why silence can protect or hurt us
✨ How being misunderstood can deepen loneliness
✨ What it means to be given choice and agency when opening up
✨ Why asking the right questions matters more than offering quick advice
✨ How healing often begins when someone finally listens without judgment
Maya’s story reminds us that not all pain looks dramatic, and not all cries for help sound loud.
If you’ve ever struggled to explain what you’re feeling, felt dismissed because your pain didn’t look “serious enough”, or wished that someone would ask and truly listen...
This episode will resonate more than you expect.
🧼 Silence doesn’t mean there’s nothing there.
🚽 Being asked with care can change everything.
💛 And sometimes, the story we don’t tell is the one we never learned how to say.
#CleanYourToiletPodcast #GetReal #InnerWork #PersonalMastery #WhatTrulyMatters
#StoriesWeDontTell #TheSilenceInside #ListeningMatters #Youth #MentalHealth #Abuse #Survivor #Singapore #Podcast
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By cleanyourtoiletWhat drives years of self-harm and abuse from a young age?
How does it go undetected until it is almost too late?
In this episode of Clean Your Toilet Podcast, we step into the world of 19-year-old physiotherapy assistant, Maya Atiqah, who recounts with Brenda Ng, Chief Fun(d) Officer, The Facilitators Project & Forest School coach, her journey of navigating self-harm and abuse as a coping mechanism to what she could not express growing up.
Family instability, emotional neglect, and the absence of a safe space to speak meant that much of what she was feeling stayed locked inside.
With distress is often being misread in young people, well-meaning comments like “you have a good life” can unintentionally shut conversations down, and result in the escalation of coping mechanisms. A lack of awareness and the inabilty to recognize what she was doing to herself meant things spiralled out of control and threatened her well-being in more ways than one.
Together, Maya and Brenda explore the parts of mental health that rarely get talked about openly:
✨ Why silence can protect or hurt us
✨ How being misunderstood can deepen loneliness
✨ What it means to be given choice and agency when opening up
✨ Why asking the right questions matters more than offering quick advice
✨ How healing often begins when someone finally listens without judgment
Maya’s story reminds us that not all pain looks dramatic, and not all cries for help sound loud.
If you’ve ever struggled to explain what you’re feeling, felt dismissed because your pain didn’t look “serious enough”, or wished that someone would ask and truly listen...
This episode will resonate more than you expect.
🧼 Silence doesn’t mean there’s nothing there.
🚽 Being asked with care can change everything.
💛 And sometimes, the story we don’t tell is the one we never learned how to say.
#CleanYourToiletPodcast #GetReal #InnerWork #PersonalMastery #WhatTrulyMatters
#StoriesWeDontTell #TheSilenceInside #ListeningMatters #Youth #MentalHealth #Abuse #Survivor #Singapore #Podcast