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EPISODE · Aug 17, 2025 · 51 MIN

Lina Tupuola: Taulasea Samoa-Traditional Healing & mental wellbeing

from Fau Gagana Podcast. A Samoan nurse's perspective on mental health. · host Dr Ioana Mulipola

Send us Fan Mailin this episode, Lina discussed her practice of fofo and why this is important to our health and wellbeing.  Lina talks about how her fofo heals many people not from her village but also from other villages.  People also seeks her out from overseas.  Lina is aware that traditional healing is important to Samoans holistic wellbeing. Also, the need for conversation about mental health to start and strengthen in her village of Vailu'utai.O le polokalame lenei o le'a fa'asoa ai le taulasea Samoa o Lina Tupuola mai Vailu'utai, Samoa i lana auaunaga mo tatou tagata.  Saunoa Lina i lenei polokalame ua toatele tagata ole tatou atunu'u ua manuia i lana fofo.  Ole fofo Samoa e aoga ile soifua maloloina ato'atoa ole tagata Samoa.  E fa'ataua e Lina le soifua ole mafaufau ma o se mataupu e tatau ona talanoaina i totonu o lona nu'u o Vailu'utai. Faugagana Practice: www.faugaganapractice.com 

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Send us Fan Mail in this episode, Lina discussed her practice of fofo and why this is important to our health and wellbeing. Lina talks about how her fofo heals many people not from her village but also from other villages. People also seeks her out from overseas. Lina is aware that traditional healing is important to Samoans holistic wellbeing. Also, the need for conversation about mental health to start and strengthen in her village of Vailu'utai. O le polokalame lenei o l...

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