Welcome to Learning 2 Live, a podcast sharing the chronicles of teenage life and the pursuit to live the best life. Join Emma each week as she spills her emotions and spontaneous thoughts as she attempts to balance school, family, mental health and illness, and more! Learning To Live is a lighthearted podcast to contrast the complexity of life’s struggles and the unfulfilled desire to live our best lives, with the occasional heavy hearted session of course.
Why We Rely So Much On External Validation To Love Ourselves
Why do we never recognize or commend ourselves for our accomplishments until others do and seek to put ourselves down and downplay our work when approached by others? This episode is all about the perils of placing too much emphasis on external validation and how it can sometimes be a drug. Additionally, this episode is all about loving yourself for who you are rather than who you can be and what you can accomplish.
23 Mar 2022
How Technology Exacerbates Social Anxiety and Awkwardness
This episode is all about struggles with social anxiety and social awkwardness and how it's real and is extremely impactful on one's ability to live life and how technology exacerbates such as it provides an escape and a defense mechanism to avoid engaging in in-person social interaction. Hear about Emma's own struggle with social anxiety and social awkwardness along with her tips and lessons she's learned throughout the years with such.
20 Mar 2022
My Love For Reading
In this episode, Emma discusses her love for reading and its benefits on one's mental health, intellectual growth, cognitive skills, and so much more. She can't stress enough how much she encourages others to pick up a book that interests them and read, whether it be for 5 minutes or an hour. JUST TRY READING OUT!
9 Mar 2022
Learning To Ask For Help and Questions
We've all succumbed to the misconception that asking for questions or for help implies that one is "weak" or "less competent" one time or another. The hesitancy in asking for help and asking questions may be due to numerous factors but the most important thing is realizing the personal growth and the power of bringing change that comes with asking for help and asking questions. Join Emma as she talks about the importance of asking for help and asking questions as it relates to developing relationships and bringing about change and innovation in the world.
2 Mar 2022
A Breathe Of Fresh Air
Have you ever had something in yourself so unhealthy and toxic become normalized in your life that when you're exposed to something different and possibly more healthy, it's like you were drowning in that toxicity and finally came up for a breath of fresh air? In this episode, Emma talks about her own struggles with feeling obligated and tied to an unhealthy and toxic relationship and being exposed to the nature of such when exploring new paths, relationships, and connections.
23 Feb 2022
The Power Of the Truth
This episode is all about the fruitless nature of raising emotional and mental barriers in order to shield oneself from the truth and its associated effects, emotions, and memories. We all think that the truth renders us powerless and takes something away from us but it's really our efforts to avoid the truth and shield it from us that does such.
16 Feb 2022
Struggling With Eating Habits and Body Image
In this episode, Emma shares her struggles with maintaining healthy eating habits and a positive body image, especially in the midst of school and negative social comparisons there.
Trigger Warning: this episode contains depictions of eating disorder behaviors and disordered eating.
9 Feb 2022
The Need to Be Busy All The Time
This episode is about the pressure and social expectation to be busy and to have numerous responsibilities in life and how that is not necessarily beneficial and is unsustainable. But it's inherently tied to human nature's desire for a sense of accomplishment, fulfillment, and success in life.
3 Feb 2022
The Perils of Social Comparisons
This conversation is all about human nature's predisposition to make social comparisons, the unproductive nature of such, and the imperativeness of not falling into the traps of social comparisons in order to preserve one's mental health along with being able to live your life. This episode is all about not discrediting yourself or your accomplishments and developing your own measure of life and yourself.
26 Jan 2022
The Beautiful Unknown
Inspired by her AP Lang timed write prompt, Emma explores the value of the unknown and placing your trust in the unknown and life's pace. In this episode, she recalls some of her most memorable experiences that have been attributed to venturing into and taking a chance on the unknowns of life. Join Emma as she talks about why you should try to let go of life more often and embrace the unknown and life defining experiences and gifts in holds in store for you and the world.
25 Jan 2022
Struggling With My Cultural Identity
In this episode, Emma recounts her struggles with identifying with her Chinese culture, despite growing up in an environment that fostered such. She discusses the feeling of being an outsider and imposter syndrome around being Chinese while also tackling some of the external factors that may have contributed to such. She also touches on the AAPI community and advocacy and the pain and energy that is instilled in her.
12 Jan 2022
Returning to the COVID-19 Tainted Halls of School
Join Emma as she accounts of her experience retuning back to school from winter break with Omicron sweeping through the student population and the country. Classes are at half capacity, hallways are emptier than usual, and everyone is on edge. Learn how Emma is coping with the stress and anxiety of COVID-19 while attending in person school.
5 Jan 2022
Why New Years Doesn't Really Matter
Join Emma as she chats about the societal pressure and expectations of the new year, 2022 baby, and her opinions on new year's resolutions. She tackles this topic with an adamant tone as she talks about the unrealistic and forced expectation for growth and change in the New Year. Through this, she has some words of advice and comfort for those struggling in the new year and social comparisons around resolutions and making positive changes in the new year.
31 Dec 2021
Winter Break Burnout & Getting Too Caught Up In the Future
In this episode, Emma accounts of her struggle with mental health, including burnout, from the year, especially school. She touches on her struggle with feeling apathetic towards school and her struggle to recover from such during winter break. Additionally, she talks about her struggle with finding a hobby and things that bring her job along with holding your identity so close to school and professional/academic goals.
27 Dec 2021
A Little Bit About Me
Sit down and get to know Emma, your host, along with her story and intentions behind this podcast.
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