We're back with Season 2 of TCM Talk Therapy.
Have you recently been feeling anxious about the future? Struggling with relationship and community? Wanting to find the good in the fall, where grief feels closer than ever? In this conversation, Grace and Jen reflect on their busy summer, discussing personal updates and the transitions they are experiencing as they move into fall. They explore themes of burnout, self-care, and the importance of awareness and reflection during seasonal changes.
We have another episode with Master Face Reader and Acupuncturist--Remee Gemo! Starting off with a ‘hot take’, our episode covers how we interpret Asian beauty standards. In the episode we explore questions like: How does a nose job might make you less independent and less wealthy? How has "it girl" features changed over time and how do they shape us? Why does your definition of beauty matter?
Remee L . Gemo is a professional face reader, acupuncturist, energy healer and intuitive from Chesterfield, VA. She is the owner of Empress Acupuncture and founder of the Energy Medicine Center. Remee is the innovator of R.E.M.I. Healing Arts and L.I.F.T. method of facial rejuvenation. She does face readings for people from all over the globe, online and in person. Remee offers a Professional Face Reading certification program and her REMI Healing Arts program. She is also an encaustic artist specializing in aura portraits. In her free time she likes to hang out with her pups Charlie and Lilit, make art, and practice internal martial arts.
To learn more about Remee you can visit her websites and IG:
energymedicine.center
Instagram: @facereaderremee
In this episode, we get the opportunity to interview Grace Chon—an established animal photographer. We discuss her journey throughout her dynamic career paths, how she was able to stay true to creative self despite the cultural expectations that were set for her to be in the medical field, and how she discovered different healing modalities along the way to live a healthier pace of life.
Grace Chon has an exceptional ability to explain spiritual energy in a very practical and logical sense. Together, the three of us discuss what energy means, how it applies to sense of self, and how we all can reframe our mindset to promote a positive foundation for self-growth and compassion for understanding others.
Grace Chon is the author of Puppy Styled and Waggish. She and her work have been featured by Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Bark magazine, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, and Oprah. Her new book, "What Kind of Dog is That?" is out now for pre-order. It's a book featuring Grace's incredible pictures of different types of mutts and details about them.
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Grace Chon: @thegrace chon https://www.instagram.com/thegracechon/
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Boundaries is a hot topic in our modern world, especially in mental health. In this episode, Grace explains the definition of the 3 different types of boundaries, and how it impacts our relationships. Jen dives into the details of what boundaries correlate to in TCM physiology and, how each element type acts with healthy or unhealthy boundaries. Together, Jen and Grace unpack how boundaries can impact our physical health, mental health and relationships through their own personal journeys.
In this episode, Jen and Grace are back with a lighthearted conversation discussing the ramp up of anxiety that occurs in the summer transition, definition of anxiety, and how we can understand and manage it according to therapy practices and Traditional Chinese Medicine.
We couldn’t simply have one conversation with Remee, so we split it into two. In this bonus episode, we dive into Remee’s specialty in face reading for matchmaking (including a reading of Grace and her ideal match), the origins of her studied lineage of face reading, and how face reading can interpret signs of infertility and intergenerational trauma.
To connect with Remee and see her list of program offerings and acupuncture services, you can find her at the following links:
Follow Remee on Instagram: @FaceReaderRemee
In this episode we get the honor of interviewing Jen's Face Reading mentor, Remee Gemo.
Remee L . Gemo is a professional face reader, acupuncturist, energy healer and intuitive from Chesterfield, VA. She is the owner of Empress Acupuncture and founder of the Energy Medicine Center. Remee is the innovator of R.E.M.I. Healing Arts and L.I.F.T. method of facial rejuvenation. She does face readings for people from all over the globe, online and in person. Remee offers a Professional Face Reading certification program and her REMI Healing Arts program. She is also an encaustic artist specializing in aura portraits. In her free time she likes to hang out with her pups Charlie and Lilit, make art, and practice internal martial arts.
To learn more about Remee you can visit her websites and IG:
energymedicine.center
empressacupuncture.com
Instagram: @FaceReaderRemee
In this episode, we get the chance to interview Leo on his life, his work and what it means to see progress in the approach to Asian Men's Mental Health.
Leo, aka Lowhi, is a Los Angeles-based men’s mental health facilitator who facilitates weekly men's support groups through his own JinShan Collective as well as Proud Asian Men in collaboration with Asian Mental Health Project.
He created these spaces to combat the global male loneliness epidemic and to support men in creating the life that they dream of through emotional intelligence and communication.
In this episode Jen talks about what brought her to specializing in facial acupuncture and her unique approach to her treatments. We talk about what facial acupuncture is, how Jen discovered face reading, Grace's experience with getting regular acupuncture vs facial acupuncture with Jen, and what Jen's thoughts on Botox are.
The month of May is AAPI and Mental Health Awareness month. To bring awareness, we have a series of interviews lined up to talk about individuals doing incredible healing work in their professional worlds and their personal lives, starting with our host, Grace!
In this episode, we get to know Grace's story of how she grew up in Asia and ended up in LA as a therapist, more detail her approach to therapy, and what types of therapy modalities she uses in her practice. One of Grace's unique modalities of therapy is Brainspotting, and we get to learn more about it through Jen's experience with it.
In this episode, we reflect on the tragedy of the LA fires and explore Western and Eastern approaches to understanding and processing the complex emotions of grief, including how it is stored in the body and debunking common myths about what grief truly is.
In the last episode, we talked about how the world is a bit of a backwards pace and not aligned with the seasons. This sub-episode will give you more educational and constructive detail about the Traditional Chinese Medicine information on what the seasons are associated with and how to approach it from a physical and mental health approach. This includes basic details about what foods to eat, how to prepare them according to the season, and what you can expect in terms of physical and mental health ailments that tend to come with each perspective season. These TCM Talks are meant to give you the educational foundation to understand the mystified concepts of Chinese Medicine so you can gain some control of your own health.
Welcome to our first episode of TCM Talk Therapy! In this episode, Jen and Grace will discuss what seasonal living according to Traditional Chinese Medicine and 5 element theory means, and how this can affect our mental health.
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