Show Notes: Art Was A Way We Remember?- Story, Faith, & A Hindi Lutheran Pastor Reverend Tuhina Verma Rasche (she/her) is a second-generation South Asian American raised in a devout Hindu household. She currently serves as one of the digital pastors of the Anam Cara Community, a digital first mission of the North Carolina Synod. She's served in multiple capacities within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), including parish pastor, community organizing traine

Show Notes: In this What If conversation, we explore what peacebuilding can look like in everyday life — through the stories and experiences of Uzbek women within Muslim communities. In honor of AAPI Heritage Month, this episode highlights perspectives from Central Asia, offering a deeper understanding of how faith, culture, and community shape the ways women contribute to healing, connection, and peace. Through lived experiences, we reflect on how acts of care, compassion,

Show Notes: In this What If conversation, we explore Filipino psychology — also known as Sikolohiyang Pilipino — and how it offers a different way of understanding the self, relationships, and healing. Together, we talk about key concepts within Filipino psychology and how they contrast with more individualistic, Western frameworks. This conversation opens up questions around identity, culture, and the ways our understanding of the self is shaped by the worlds we come from.

Show Notes: In this episode I speak to Hui Ting, a licensed mental health counselor based in New York, originally from Malaysia. As a Malaysian Chinese therapist, Hui Ting work centers on supporting Asian American clients navigating family dynamics, intergenerational trauma, relationships, and work-related stress. She integrates parts work and Internal Family Systems (IFS) into her practice, helping clients better understand their inner world and build healthier emotional con

Show Notes: In this edition of Shelf Talk, I sit with a voice actor whose understanding of voice extends far beyond performance. Together, we explore what it means to treat voice as something sacred — shaped by love, culture, and the stories we inherit. He reflects on how the values passed down by his mother shaped the way he helped care for his father, who lived with schizophrenia, and how Filipino belief systems informed what it meant to show up with presence and compassion

Show Notes: Michi Marks (she/they) is a Hmong American Marriage and Family Therapist–in-training, integration and implementation coach, and spiritual practitioner whose work bridges Western psychotherapy with ancestral animist traditions. Their approach draws from liberation psychology, experiential therapies, and systems thinking, with a focus on relational, embodied, and contextual healing. Michi identifies as neurodivergent, queer, genderfluid, and bicultural — identitie

Show Notes: In this episode of Sacred Tea & Nourished Souls, we sit down with an acupuncturist to explore the question: What If We Remembered the Roots of Chinese Medicine? Together, we talk about honoring lineage, cultural context, and the spiritual foundations of Chinese medicine — and how these roots can become obscured when the practice is removed from its history and community. This conversation invites listeners to reflect on healing not just as a technique, but as cult