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Here you will find articles, stories, podcasts and tips on mental health, relationships, identity and life between cultures. We write clearly and always say whether something comes from personal experience, a community perspective or an expert source.
Conversations with experts and people from the community about mental health, family and life between two cultures.
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Bao Nhi, Bao Quyen „Niky“
The pilot episode of the podcast Příběhy mezi kulturami (Stories between cultures). Illustrator Bao Quyen “Niky” talks about the exhibition and comic The Ceramic Heart, about self-love, self-worth, pressure about appearance and the deep marks other people’s words can leave in us.
Dan Le, Mgr. Jiří Kocourek
Sociologist and Vietnamese studies specialist Jiří Kocourek on the history and present of the Vietnamese minority in Czechia, relations between generations and life between two cultures.
Dan Le, Dominika Čechová, M. A.
A conversation with psychotherapist Dominika Čechová about what shapes us: childhood, emotions, relationships, pressure to perform and psychotherapy.
Trang Do, Chili Ta, Julie Lien Vrbová, Ondra Slowik
How is the role of women changing in Vietnamese society? A discussion about identity, expectations and women’s strength from the side programme of The Ceramic Heart exhibition.
Dan Le, Veronika Ngo, Dana Haranzová
Veronika Ngo and Dana Haranzová share personal stories about growing up between two cultures, searching for identity and feeling accepted.
Minh Mai, Mgr. Jan Kulhánek, Dominika Čechová, M. A., Mgr. Le Hong Thai
A psychotherapist, a psychiatrist and a clinical psychologist on where to turn for help and how pressure to perform and the migration experience affect Vietnamese families in Czechia.
Tu Anh „Kiki“ Vo, MUDr. Natálie Böhmová, Mgr. Helena Halířová, Denisa Olšavská
A panel discussion on what ADHD really is, how adults are assessed and which tools can help with attention and regulation.
Bao Nhi
“You’ve put on weight.” “Why can’t you be like Mrs X’s daughter?” Why criticism, comparison and remarks about the body are so common in Vietnamese families, what they do to self-worth and why nobody talks about them. The article follows the exhibition and podcast The Ceramic Heart.
What do we want to keep from the way our parents raised us, and what would we change? We are preparing a study on parenting in the second generation of Vietnamese in Czechia.
Linh Chi
“My favourite dish is my granny’s goulash… my Czech granny’s.” An article about the childhood of the second generation of Vietnamese in Czechia, where a Czech family of the heart grows up alongside the Vietnamese family by blood.
Elea, Tu Anh (Kiki), Veronika Ngo
Elea, an ambassador of the Muôn Màu project, only learned about her ADHD as an adult. She talks about a childhood full of intense emotions, about school days that started at seven in the morning to catch up on work, and about why the diagnosis meant understanding rather than a label.
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