In this episode, we get the chance to interview Leo on his life, his work and what it means to see progress in the approach to Asian Men's Mental Health.

Leo, aka Lowhi, is a Los Angeles-based men’s mental health facilitator who facilitates weekly men's support groups through his own  JinShan Collective as well as Proud Asian Men in collaboration with Asian Mental Health Project.

He created these spaces to combat the global male loneliness epidemic and to support men in creating the life that they dream of through emotional intelligence and communication.

In this episode Jen talks about what brought her to specializing in facial acupuncture and her unique approach to her treatments. We talk about what facial acupuncture is, how Jen discovered face reading, Grace's experience with getting regular acupuncture vs facial acupuncture with Jen, and what Jen's thoughts on Botox are.

The month of May is AAPI and Mental Health Awareness month. To bring awareness, we have a series of interviews lined up to talk about individuals doing incredible healing work in their professional worlds and their personal lives, starting with our host, Grace!

In this episode, we get to know Grace's story of how she grew up in Asia and ended up in LA as a therapist, more detail her approach to therapy, and what types of therapy modalities she uses in her practice. One of Grace's unique modalities of therapy is Brainspotting, and we get to learn more about it through Jen's experience with it.

In this episode, we reflect on the tragedy of the LA fires and explore Western and Eastern approaches to understanding and processing the complex emotions of grief, including how it is stored in the body and debunking common myths about what grief truly is.

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In the last episode, we talked about how the world is a bit of a backwards pace and not aligned with the seasons. This sub-episode will give you more educational and constructive detail about the Traditional Chinese Medicine information on what the seasons are associated with and how to approach it from a physical and mental health approach. This includes basic details about what foods to eat, how to prepare them according to the season, and what you can expect in terms of physical and mental health ailments that tend to come with each perspective season. These TCM Talks are meant to give you the educational foundation to understand the mystified concepts of Chinese Medicine so you can gain some control of your own health.

Welcome to our first episode of TCM Talk Therapy! In this episode, Jen and Grace will discuss what seasonal living according to Traditional Chinese Medicine and 5 element theory means, and how this can affect our mental health. 

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