The Eriwellbeing Podcast

In today's episode, we are joined by Mental Health Personal Trainer (PT) Fiyory Ghezae. We learn more about what it means to work as a Mental Health PT and the importance of physical activity.

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In this episode we talk about:

- What is a Mental health Personal Trainer?

- Fiyory's experience with Mental health.

- The importance of physical activity in general and particularly for our community.

- Tips for encouraging your parents ...

Part 2 of the Culture of Healing conversation with Bethlehem Bekele, Founder of Kinetbet which is a platform dedicated to shifting culture for the better through the lens of healing.

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In this episode we talk about:

- The importance of healing for black and brown communities 

- How we can start creating a culture of healing

- Practical ways that we start healing as a community

- The importance of community vs individual heal...

Part 1 of the Culture of Healing conversation with Bethlehem Bekele, Founder of Kinetbet which is a platform dedicated to shifting culture for the better through the lens of healing.

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In this episode we talk about:

- The importance of healing for black and brown communities

- How we can start creating a culture of healing

- Practical ways that we start healing as a community

- The importance of community vs individual healing

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The EWB podcast is back after a summer hiatus with a brand new episode. This episode features a special guest, Winta Desta, a Canadian - Eritrean physiotherapist. Winta shares from her experience and expertise as a practitioner in physiotherapy and sports. We also get insight into Winta's community engagement through her own platform MayeHealth which provides health education for Eritreans in both English and Tigrinya. If you're lo...

Hey EWB Fam,

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In this episode, we talk to The EastWesterner about a very important and much-needed topic for our community; the connection between Sexuality & Mental health.

For many LGBTQ youth and adults from our communities, embracing and being open about their sexual identity is difficult because of the stigma, fear, ignorance and taboo that exists within our culture(s) against anything outside the "norm" of heterosexuality. The fact tha...

We are back with another episode of the podcast with fan favourite Dr Yacob Tekie! We're thrilled to bring back Dr Yacob to the podcast and share more of his wisdom and very important culturally competent perspective and experience as a mental health professional.

In this episode, we talk about all things therapy and why we should consider it as an important tool when it comes to taking care of our mental health. This episode will ...

Our first episode of 2021 is with no other than Luwame Tesfaye, fitness influencer, personal trainer, coach and  Founder of the popular wellness platform and community Luwame. We got to sit down and talk to Luwam about how to start off 2021 right when it comes to our fitness and nutrition habits. It is more important than ever for us to really take care of our health, in this episode Luwam shares her story to becoming a fitnes...

We are so excited to share our very first wellness edition of the podcast with Weini Smon, founder of @yogawithweini. Weini is a Vinyasa and Ashtanga yoga instructor, in this episode we talk to her about the importance of breathing properly and how paying attention to our breath can improve our health and wellbeing in so many ways. This is especially important in these times when we're experiencing a lot of tension and stress, to k...

For our 12th episode of the Eriwellbeing podcast, we have Mikal with us! Mikal is the Co-founder of EWB and is making her first appearance on the podcast in this episode. Mikal has been busy completing her PhD (#bossbabe), now that she's finished we're thrilled to be welcoming her to the podcast where she will be putting her anthropology hat on to drop gems on the regular on all things mental health and wellness related. This is an...

We're so excited to be back with Season 2 of the EWB podcast, thank you so much for rocking with us! For our 11th episode of the Eriwellbeing podcast, we have the lovely Nadya Van Der Sluis from the Netherlands joining us to share her experience of living with a Bipolar condition. Nadya was diagnosed with Bipolar condition in 2009 and has since learnt how to live with this diagnosis while also not letting it limit her identity and ...

For our 10th episode of the Eriwellbeing podcast (YAY), we have a special guest that we did our very first in-person podcast recording with, Semere Araya.

Semere reached out to us and asked how he could contribute to the EWB community so we recorded this episode with him to share his personal experiences with mental health as well as share insight about his work as a Mental health nurse.

Semere's personal experiences with mental he...

This is a quick turn-around episode as a response to what’s going on worldwide with the riots and protest that we’re set off by the murder of #GeorgeFloyd and so many other innocent black people whose names we don’t know.

As black people, we feel that its important to recognise this moment and share some perspective on how to use this global momentum that we now have regarding race relations. We also want to highlight the connectio...

We are back again with another Corona special, this time with Dr Kemal Ibrahim, a Psychiatrist from London. 

In this conversation, we talk about how to take care of your mental health during the corona pandemic if you have a pre-existing mental health condition/diagnosis. This episode will also speak directly to anyone that might be a caretaker of a loved one or a family member that is struggling with a mental health condition...

We had the opportunity to speak with Dr Haben Ghezai, a Clinical Psychologist from London.

This is an important conversation about how to take care of our mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Haben shares invaluable advice about how to take care of ourselves during these times, we are always so grateful when we come across Eritrean/Ethiopian/Black mental health professionals that we can learn from.

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In this episode, we explore Male Mental Health from an Eritrean male's perspective with our very special guest Adonay Berhe

We got to know Adonay through the @eriwellbeing IG community. After having several conversations with Adonay we realized that it would be so beneficial for Adonay to share his story on the podcast since it's so rare that we get to hear in detail about Eritrean men's experience with mental health.

This is an op...

In this episode, we explore how to feel empowered while helping loved ones on their mental health journeys with a very special guest, Viva. 

Viva is a friend of ours, part of the Eriwellbeing community and amongst many things, she is a mental health advocate. It was important for us to have this conversation with Viva as she has a lot of knowledge and experience when it comes to caring for loved ones with mental health illness...

In this episode, we explore parental expectations with our special guest Eritrea Ghebrehiwet.

Eritrea is a @eriwellbeing community member, we really wanted to have her on the show as she does a lot of mental health awareness work. It's very important for us to be able to make this conversation and platform inclusive so we're very grateful to Eritrea for coming on our podcast to share her story and explore the topic of parental expe...

By popular demand, we recorded an episode in Tigrinya! 

Our goal is to reach as many people as possible within the Eritrean community with the message of mental health so an episode in Tigrinya felt very appropriate. This episode is really for all but with a special message for parents on how to relate to their kids, speak with their kids and create space for understanding mental health. Misunderstandings and stigma are connec...