Unlearning Patterns Podcast

This episode is your mental health check-in point! May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we hope you're doing well. We are discussing our opinions about Mental Health and sharing our personal experiences with anxiety and depression. Mental Health looks different for everyone and it's so important to respect other's needs and boundaries around it. Please continue to educate yourself on Mental Health, check in with your loved ones, and be kind to yourself.

Thank you for over 700 downloads! We loving hearing the conversations you're having with loved ones after listening to our episodes. We appreciate your support. <3

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00:43 - Mental Health Definitions from CDC

2:41 - Mental Health in the Hmong Community

7:18 - Breaking the Sigma of Mental Health

9:50 - Creating a safe space to have conversations about Mental Health

13:03 - Charlotte's experience with Anxiety

21:26 - Thony’s experience with Depression + his self-care practices

30:54 - Charlotte’s self-care practices

31:35 - Seeking Help

32:58 - Life coaching and Therapy

36:24 - Breaking Patterns for our mental health

38:01 - how we support each other’s mental health

In this episode, we have on our first couple! Pheng and Barbara have been together for 14 years and have a daughter together. We are so honored that they allowed us to share their story with our listeners. Pheng also shared a passion and business he has started called Guerrilla Pastures. Don’t miss out on getting to know these two! Thanks again to Pheng and Barbara for being on our podcast. We admire you both and can’t wait to see where your adventures takes your family!

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Unlearning Patterns Podcast

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Timestamps:

1:17 - meet Barbara and Pheng

2:40 - the start of their relationship

13:15 - vulnerability, communication, and openness within their relationship

15:50 - growing up together, going to college, hardships

18:14 - outside opinions and influences on your relationship

24:46 - the transition from dating to marriage

28:29 - understanding each other’s love language and keeping the spark alive

33:58 - differences in relationships

37:26 - parenthood: raising Lauryn

52:07 - moving out of the cities

53:55 - compromising and supporting each other

56:32 - Guerrilla Pastures

58:40 - Charlotte and Thony’s Reflections

We are back from our short break! In this episode, we are chatting about Adulthood. We have entered our “late 20s” and wanted to reflect on the pressures of marriage, kids, personal growth, the Hmong culture and more. As always, these are our own personal experiences and expectations. We respect that our listeners may not agree or understand. We just hope that by listening to our conversations, you may learn something helpful. Remember that your journey is unique to you and that we’re all on different timelines. How beautiful is it that although our journeys are different, they still cross and we get the opportunity to impact and support one another?

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Music Production: LAZYASSKID

Episode Timestamps

00:25 - episode 5 reflections

4:55 - expectations vs reality of adulthood

11:06 - expectations set by others

16:23 - the pressure of marriage

24:06 - the pressure of having kids

27:13 - the pressure from peers and reaching milestones

31:24 - Charlotte’s pressure of being equal to Thony

35:19 - other pressures we feel as we’re adulting

40:55 - where do we see ourselves in 10 years?

Welcome back! In Part Two of The Enneagram, we reflected on our partner's enneagram type. We also had conversations about what it's been like to work with Lynda and using the enneagram as a tool in our relationship. See below for links on how to follow/contact Lynda and for free enneagram tests if you want to learn what your enneagram type is.

Lynda's Links:

In part 1 of the Enneagram, you will be hearing from our first guest! Her name is Lynda YG and she is an enneagram coach. Lynda has helped guide us through our enneagram types and shown us how we can use it to better understand ourselves and our relationship. See below for links on how to follow/contact Lynda and for free enneagram tests if you want to learn what your enneagram type is.

Welcome to our very first episode! Get to know who we are as individuals and a couple. You'll quickly learn that we have two very different stories, but it's really what has balanced our connection. We also shared our intentions with this podcast, which ultimately is creating a space for all of us to feel supported on this journey of unlearning patterns.

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Music: Prod. LAZYASSKID

We are so excited to start this podcast journey. You can expect to hear open conversations between us. We are here to be vulnerable and share our experiences that pushed us to unlearning patterns that were not helpful. Also the steps it took for us to star our growth and the growing pains as individuals and a couple. We hope by listening, you feel that you've gained validation and support on your journey of unlearning patterns.

You can find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/unlearningpatternspodcast

Also on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/unlearningpatternspodcast

Music: (Prod. LAZYASSKID)