Do you feel like you often have to shape-shift in order to fit into your cultural context?

As children of immigrants, we often bridge multiple cultures, and it's common to adapt the way we show up in each one - this can be a great ability, but it can also lead to feeling disconnected from our true identity.

The immigrant experience is taxing by nature and can lead to a variety of mental health issues and feeling like we can't really be our authentic selves with family is one of the scenarios that can contribute to those.

In this episode of the Asian Detox Podcast, TJ Wey examines the common Asian American experience of code-switching, the potential positive and negative impacts of it, and explores some buffers for creating resilient mental health, highlighting:

• What code-switching is and the positive and negative associations
• Why it's so common for high achievers to struggle with anxiety or depression
• The toll it can take being with our family and being in a situation where we feel like we have to code-switch, rather than it being a choice
• Reflections and questions to help us show up as more of who we really are
• How microaggressions can influence our sense of self, belonging and need to code-switch and the self-abandonment that can come with that

"Trying to constantly fit into the toxic expectations other people have of us and behave in ways that we wouldn't naturally can be extremely draining and a huge mental toll; I think that the concept of code-switching is extremely tied into my mental health."

TJ Wey

S1 E9, Asian Detox Podcast

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