Conversations With Sheila and Tricia
by Conversations With Sheila and Tricia
Our podcast is a weekly conversation with Sheila Kusi-Asare. LMSW and Patricia Kissi-Nuamah, LMHC-LP both based in NYS. We want to use this platform as an opportunity to discuss life related difficulties that can impact our mental health well-being. We will discussion various topics relating to mental health (signs and symptoms as well as coping strategies), Self development and provide resources to help enhance and manage our overall well-being.
Episodes
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Childhood abuse and trauma
On this weeks episode we discuss a very important topic of childhood abuse and trauma with a focus specifically on physical abuse, sexual abuse and neglect. We also discuss some of the warning signs that people need to look out for. Childhood abuse and trauma is a serious issue in the black...
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Domestic Violence/Intimate Partner Violence
October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month and so we thought it was important for us to have an open and honest conversation about domestic violence/intimate partner violence. For this conversation we defined what domestic violence is and some types of DV as well as warning signs. We...
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Let's talk Trauma
Trauma is something we hear constantlyand all over the place.. On this episode we give a brief overview of what trauma means and some events that can lead to trauma as well as some symptoms of trauma. Often times people also wonder if trauma is a mental illness. Stay tune to here what we have to...
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Parenting tips as Schools prepare to start
In March of this year the COVID19 pandemic changed lives all over the world.. Families in all parts of the world were forced to shift gears to do things differently than what they were accustom to. For many families schools closing down forced many caregivers to become educators with no other...
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Managing our Work/Life balance
We know life can be challenging overall with managing your personal lives as well as your professional lives. Join us in this open and candid conversation regarding how we manage our family obligations as well as career and professional obligations. How do we do it? Stay tune to the conversation…
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Maternal depression (prenatal and postpartum)
In continuation with our podcast from las week we thought it was important that we continue to have our discussion on Depression but more so with a focus on Prenatal and postpartum. We share personal experences as it relates to the subject matter because it is important that people understand…
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Lets talk about Depression
Over the last few months we have experienced so much significant shift in our normal way of life from COVID19 which caused us to be socially isolated to racial tension. COVID-19 has had a profound and unprecedented impact on all of our daily lives. Social distancing, unemployment, sudden loss…
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Self Care - What are Boundaries and how do you set them?
In continuation with our discussion on self care we wanted to take a more indepth look at boundaries and why it's important that we learn to set boundaries for ourselves in order to build and foster healthy personal relationships. Setting personal boundaries can often be very challenging due to…
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Introduction Podcast
Our Podcast is a weekly conversation with Sheila Kusi-Asare. LMSW and Patricia Kissi-Nuamah, LMHC-LP both based in NYS. We want to use this platform as an opportunity to discuss life related difficulties that can impact our mental health well-being. We will discussion various topics relating to...
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Self Care -What does it really mean and why is it important in our lives?
Today's podcast is focused on self care and what it actually mean. Identifying triggers and stressor in order to develop an effective action plan for yourself. This was an opportunity to to really dive into self care and the importance of practing self care. Taking care of ourself is critical to...
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What is Anxiety and how does one cope?
In this Episode we discuss Anxiety. What is Anxiety? It is described as a mental health disorder characterized by feelings of worry, anxiety, or fear that are strong enough to interfere with one's daily activities Examples of anxiety disorders include panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive disorder,...
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Youth Voice- talks on pandemic, racism.. coping in 2020
In this episode we talk with Stacey Appiah and Alexis Agymang in regards to being youths in the year of pandemics of COVID19 and systemic racisim and how do we maintain our mental health well-being. It is important to hear from our youths and see things from their perspectives. We were honored to...
About this show
Our podcast is a weekly conversation with Sheila Kusi-Asare. LMSW and Patricia Kissi-Nuamah, LMHC-LP both based in NYS. We want to use this platform as an opportunity to discuss life related difficulties that can impact our mental health well-being. We will discussion various topics relating to mental health (signs and symptoms as well as coping strategies), Self development and provide resources to help enhance and manage our overall well-being.
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