What is loss? What is grief? How do we make sense of it during this political crisis? How can we accept and process them with healthy approaches? 

We are back here this week with you to talk about loss, grief including collective grieving that we, the Myanmar community as a whole are facing now. 

G-Taw Zagar Wyne Podcast started a series on mental health under the coup to discuss mental health issues and create a platform for Myanmar people to share their stories, ask questions, and seek support as they need. 

Speaker Bio: Gabriella Phyu is a psychologist working in Australia. She studied psychology in Australia for 7 years and finished her Master of Clinical Psychology in 2020.  She primarily works in supporting adults, young adults, children, and their families within the community. 

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S-2 -Episode _(2)_100 Days Of Loss & Grief

How do we feel when we hear the news about the fallen heroes during the revolutions? Why does that pain doesn't go away for a long time? Why do we blame ourselves for the loss we are facing? Who is actually responsible for them? 

This week, we talked about survivors' guilt and in what forms they appear in our day-to-day life and how can we be aware of them so that we can transform the perspective into positive ones.

G-Taw Zagar Wyne Podcast started a series on mental health under the coup to discuss mental health issues and create a platform for Myanmar people to share their stories, ask questions, and seek support as they need.

Speaker Bio: Gabriella Phyu is a psychologist working in Australia. She studied psychology in Australia for 7 years and finished her Master of Clinical Psychology in 2020. She primarily works in supporting adults, young adults, children, and their families within the community.

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S-2-Episode - (4)-Survivors' Guilt: Who is actually responsible?

How can we care for ourselves so that our physical and mental health does not deteriorate? What does self-care look like during a crisis situation? What can we do to have self-compassionate? What are ways to practices?

In this episode, we simply discuss small steps we can take to develop self-compassionate and ways to sustain them.  Listen to this episode to hear Psychologist Gabriella Phyu shares her professional tips on self-compassion.

G-Taw Zagar Wyne Podcast started a series on mental health under the coup to discuss mental health issues and create a platform for Myanmar people to share their stories, ask questions, and seek support as they need.

Speaker Bio: Gabriella Phyu is a psychologist working in Australia. She studied psychology in Australia for 7 years and finished her Master of Clinical Psychology in 2020. She primarily works in supporting adults, young adults, children, and their families within the community.

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S - 2-Episode - (5) - Caring For Your Mental Health Is Resistance

How does the daily life of a garment worker look like? What injustices do they face? What challenges do they have before the coup and what new difficulties are added after they took over? How are they playing a leading role in taking down the dictatorship in Myanmar? Listen to the Founder of the Federation of Garment Workers, Ma Moe Sandar Myint talks about her role as a leader and what have been the unique challenges for garment workers in joining this anti-coup movement in Myanmar and how can NUG support them. 

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S - 3-Episode - 1 - Journey To Justice With Garment Workers-Moe Sandar Myint

"I write because it releases some of my pain. I write everything that bothers me. It is a way of taking care of myself." 

In this podcast, she shares bits about her childhood and where and how her love for reading and writing came from. She explains how her mother has been a role model for her throughout her life and what led her to be interested in activism. 

Me Me Khant, from Yangon, Myanmar, is pursuing a master’s degree in international policy at Stanford School of Humanities and Sciences. She graduated from Centre College with a bachelor’s degree in international studies and a minor in French. Me Me currently works for promoting peace, reconciliation, and democracy in Myanmar and is a staunch advocate for civil liberties and human rights. As a poet and diaspora activist, she has been at the forefront of speaking out against the Myanmar military for atrocities that the military has committed including the Rohingya genocide; she has organized and mobilized thousands from the Burmese diaspora in global rallies and protests.

Season-2-https://soundcloud.com/g-taw-zagar-wyne-podcast/sets/mental-health-under-the-coup

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S-3-Episode - 4-Finding Peace Between Words-Me Me Khant

G-taw is airing to inspire and empower through dialogues and storytelling with legend girls and women. 

This week, we have the legend, G-Taw Aye Thiri Kyaw with us who is a humanitarian activist, a researcher, a proud single mother, and a feminist. In this episode, she shares her childhood memories, her carrier as a researcher and her struggle with divorce. With open heart, she talks about her perspective on gender, domestic violence, feminism and divorce through personal and academic lens. She also emphasizes how hard it is to identify toxic behavior in a relationship since our culture has set women and girls to scarify. She explains in details about her journey of becoming the activist from personal stories. There are so many insightful things that we can learn from this conversation.
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Episode-2-Becoming A Humanitarian Activist-Aye Thiri Kyaw

In this episode, we met with Ma Ohnmar Aung, a legend aka G-Taw who is one of the founding members of Mandalar Yaung Sin that works towards gender equality and women empowerment across Myanmar. She also works at Marie Stopes International since 2008. She shared her sister's story of going through very traumatizing experiences in her marriage with the abusive and violent man and what that have taught her and her sister. She also told us how her upbringing shapes her to become the kind of persona and parent that she aspires to be.  Since the day she discovered the experiences that her sister went through Ma Ohnmar has been working towards ending inequality and injustices. It is a personal story like this that has driven a strong person like Ma Ohnmar to standup for justice.  Learn more about her and her work via Facebook -- > https://www.facebook.com/ohnmar.aung.7545

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Episode - 13 - Breaking the cycle of abuse & violence-Ma Ohnma Aung

"I am most passionate to work for peace, development, dignity, and rights of the nation." 

B Esther Ze Naw B Esther Ze Naw is passionately focusing on Peace, Humanitarian, Ethnic Rights, and Dignity issues of the society. She also founded Mobile Library Foundation in 2012 with her friends to bring non-formal education activities through Mobile Libraries in Internally Displaced Peoples Camps where the massive population of young people at the schooling age lost their access to education when the conflict broke out.
She organized youths from urban areas and university students and advocated to involve in pro-peace activities when she was the students’/youth leader in several organizations, such as the Myanmar Institute of Theology, Students Christian Movement (Myanmar). She involved in the National-level Peace Process as a technical documenter of the Nationwide Ceasefire Coordination Team (NCCT) during the NCCT and Government of Myanmar negotiations for the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement from early 2014 to late 2015.

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Episode - 14- Youth Involement In Peace-B Esther Ze Naw

Hnaung Moe Thae works as a Digital Safety Officer in the Digital Rights Team at MIDO. Digital Rights Team implements a program for effective mitigation of digital threats in Myanmar during the election period. As a Digital Safety Officer, she is responsible for conducting risk assessments and training, handling incidents coming from our Digital Security Helpline. She also handles " Digital Tea House '' Facebook page by writing content writing and other tasks for this page as well as develops the resources for campaigns. She co-hosts Digital Radio Evening podcast channel with one of her colleagues to provide digital literacy.

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Episode - 15 - How Can We Stay Digitally Safe-Hnaung Moe Thae

တစ္ခါတုန္းက - YaTha ft. Jenny

Amplifying women and girls' voice in Myanmar to inspire for a better change.

S - 2-Episode - (5) - Caring For Your Mental Health Is Resistance

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