Speaking Out Against Verbal Abuse

Verbal abuse happens in several environments and can take many different forms that we might not be aware of. On this episode, I’m joined by Ms. Sheema-Bajana Samson, Executive Director of Gender Watch Against Violence and Exploitation (GWAVE) to help us understand what verbal abuse looks like, its harmful effects, and how we can speak out against it to help victims. Words can hurt, but they can also heal

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Helping a Friend in a Toxic Relationship

How do you tell your friend that you think they’re in a relationship that will just hurt them? Should you just be quiet? Or should you give them your two cents? Aaron and I talk about our past relationships and how we were able to survive the toxic relationships we’ve gone through.

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How to Not Be a Marites?

Lately, we’ve been celebrating this idea of being a “Marites”. But, what do we really mean by it? Are we slowly accepting that we are innately gossipers and that being a gossip is a good trait? Aaron and I talk about this another piece of Filipino culture that took a digital leap, the obvious traits of a ‘Marites’ and how can we avoid becoming one of them.

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How to Bounce Back from Languishing

Being in this pandemic for nearly two years, we’ve kind of adjusted already with the pandemic life. But we’ve also developed this emotion we coined “languishing” that pretty much captures that cycle of uncertainty we've all been going through. And on this episode, Alec and I talk about how can we pull ourselves together and fight this languishing every time we feel ‘blah’ through the PERMA model

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