Chai Chats Podcast

In this episode we get into it all the things: Informed consent, spirituality, politics, life, death, the body, the mind. It really was too deep to name.

It's 2017! We had a lot to catch up on so in this episode we talk about the holidays and visiting family, navigating crushes and attraction, and feeling stoked about life. We also got to stuff our faces with delicious pizza thanks to the generous donations of our patrons.

S1E29 - Micro-Aggressions by Chai Chats Podcast

All 3 of us are going 'home for the holidays' - to visit our families, so we share as many tangible tips as we can for making family visits tolerable and even enjoyable! We acknowledge the difficulty establishing boundaries with biological family members.

We hadn't seen each other in a while so we talk winter mental health survival strategies, amongst other things that have been on our minds. These include children and how adults relate to them, focussing on micro change, and the sensitive issue of how to communicate with friends when one is concerned about their well being in a relationship.

S1E26 - Conflict Resolution by Chai Chats Podcast

This week we're joined by our lovely friend Brian and we talk all about the ins and outs of anxiety.

Dona and Malek break down SistersInMotion for Zahra Habib of the McGill Daily.

We discuss knowing one's values, the idea of having many life callings, Creativity, Joy / One's Essential Self, Mindfulness / Emotional Maturity, Internalized Fatphobia

Facing triggers in intimate relationships

This week we realize that the concept of 'listening to your body' is very prominent on our podcast and explore many macro & micro dimensions of how listening to our bodies can help us be anti-oppressive (a.k.a less harmful to others).

We discuss the importance of closed stages through reflecting on Malek's recent event, Sisters In Motion: A Poetry and Writing Showcase by Black, Indigenous, Racialized Women & Femmes of Color. *Trigger Warning/Content Note: episode contains description of the murders of Freddie Gray & Matthew Shepard.

In our discussion of the concept of 'Community Care' we review many concepts covered previously on the podcast, such as: Boundaries, Adulting Your Inner Child, Mental Health Strategies/Self Care, Mindfulness, Intentional Relationships, and Listening to your body.

Perform, eat, exercise, and do things with your friends - these are some of the simple, yet difficult to put into practice coping mechanisms that we explore on managing anxiety and/or depression. We also discuss the usefulness of identity politics.

When you are trying to heal from trauma, do you push yourself to face your triggers or do you retreat/avoid? How do you know when to do which? Is there a 'formula' for this? We decide that a good default is to err on the side of resting, take your wounds seriously and resist capitalist programming to push ourselves past our capacities.

This week we critique the disappointing gaps in religion and spirituality and the inability of these systems to address the realities of oppression and systemic inequality. We also discuss the failures of mainstream stories and the necessity to build our own scripts for relationships. Our podcast begins with an excerpt from a poem by Malek Yalaoui, 'A Poem For Fellow Coloured Girls.'

This week we talk about gender presentation, access to womanhood and femininity, and the often uncomfortable discrepancies between how one is read by the world and how one identifies personally. Featuring our first ever podcast guest ! :D

Adulting your inner child.

Career (verb) definition: To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specific direction. 'The car careered off the road...'

Today we ended up talking about the meaning of life. Featuring a song excerpt of a song composed by Parneet. This episode produced by Nicole, Parneet & Malek.