Mana Mental Health A Nursing Corporation

02/08/2025

11/13/2024

New support group for Asian, South Asian and Pasifika māmā💙 This FREE, virtual group offers support during pregnancy & postpartum (up to 2 yrs). **More Pasifika facilitators are needed for the group! If you are interested and have capacity please email groups@postpartum.net to learn more! Registration at: bit.ly/FindSupportGroup

10/31/2024

https://www.facebook.com/100083088044872/posts/581131507999779/?d=n&mibextid=qC1gEa

Hūi!!! If you currently work with māmās during the perinatal period OR would like to learn more about serving this population, please apply for a scholarship through the Hawai'i Postpartum Support International Chapter to attend a PSI training! Email: psihawaiichapter@gmail.com
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PSI-Hawaii is providing several scholarships for trainings in 2024.

Applicants must serve residents of HI for consideration.

The scholarship will be based on financial need and a demonstrated commitment to providing treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in areas/populations with a significant need. You must apply at least 3 weeks prior to the training you want to attend to allow time for your booklet to be mailed to you.

For virtual events - please note the time zone of the training before you sign up and check your calendar accordingly.

For more information on training schedule and opportunities: https://www.postpartum.net/professionals/trainings-events/psi-certificate-training/

Email psihawaiichapter@gmail.com for an application or more info!

10/31/2024

Hūi!!! If you currently work with māmās during the perinatal period OR would like to learn more about serving this population, please apply for a scholarship through the Hawai'i Postpartum Support International Chapter to attend a PSI training! Email: psihawaiichapter@gmail.com
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PSI-Hawaii is providing several scholarships for trainings in 2024.

Applicants must serve residents of HI for consideration.

The scholarship will be based on financial need and a demonstrated commitment to providing treatment of perinatal mood and anxiety disorders in areas/populations with a significant need. You must apply at least 3 weeks prior to the training you want to attend to allow time for your booklet to be mailed to you.

For virtual events - please note the time zone of the training before you sign up and check your calendar accordingly.

For more information on training schedule and opportunities: https://www.postpartum.net/professionals/trainings-events/psi-certificate-training/

Email psihawaiichapter@gmail.com for an application or more info!

10/30/2024

Loved joining the (Pacific Islander Health Board of Washington) tonight for a Talk Story about perinatal mental health 💙 They are doing amazing work in Washington for our Pasifika māmās! Mahalo for the opportunity!
If you missed it, you can check it out here: https://fb.watch/vxjuivtdo5/?mibextid=v7YzmG

10/30/2024

Loved joining the (Pacific Islander Health Board of Washington) tonight for a Talk Story about perinatal mental health 💙 They are doing amazing work in Washington for our Pasifika māmās! Mahalo for the opportunity!

10/30/2024

Loved joining the Pacific Islander Health Board of Washington tonight for a Talk story about perinatal mental health 💙 They are doing amazing work in Washington for our Pasifika māmās! Mahalo for the opportunity!

05/12/2024

Aloha Lā Makuahine

On this day, I’d like to take the time to mahalo each of you for working to improve your mental health day by day. The invisible load of motherhood can be so draining and one, short day can’t replace or even begin to acknowledge all that you do in this role.

Today I am especially holding space for mother’s who have:
Lost a keiki
Lost a mother
Have challenging relationships with their own mother or keiki
Those yearning to be mothers
Those who have chosen not to be mothers
Those mothering in war
Those who are breaking intergenerational cycles of violence & oppression so that their keiki can foster peace and healthy relationships when they are mothering one day.

May this day bring you peace, rest, aloha & joy. May you replenish your mana so that you can find balance in all of the wonderful and challenging ways that you show up each day.

05/12/2024

Aloha Lā Makuahine

On this day, I'd like to take the time to mahalo each of you for working to improve your mental health day by day. The invisible load of motherhood can be so draining and one, short day can't replace or even begin to acknowledge all that you do in this role.

Today I am especially holding space for mother's who have:
Lost a keiki
Lost a mother
Have challenging relationships with their own mother or keiki
Those yearning to be mothers
Those who have chosen not to be mothers
Those mothering in war
Those who are breaking intergenerational cycles of violence & oppression so that their keiki can foster peace and healthy relationships when they are mothering one day.

May this day bring you peace, rest, aloha & joy. May you replenish your mana so that you can find balance in all of the wonderful and challenging ways that you show up each day.

02/11/2024

Oh my heart!!! 💙💙💙 Those who know me personally, know that when I was hāpai w/ my keiki kāne, and when I was in the postpartum period, I experienced debilitating perinatal anxiety. And if you didn’t know that, now you do (as it’s common for folks with high functioning anxiety to get overlooked). Like many mothers, and most mothers of color, I was never screened for a PMAD. When I told my OB that I couldn’t sleep for more than a few hours a day due to intrusive thoughts about my pēpē not breathing when he slept (perinatal OCD symptoms), she told me- and I quote, “we all go through it- you just need to get outside and go back to work.” At the time I was working as a NICU nurse taking care of critical infants and couldn’t fathom going back to that in my current state. Thankfully I had a few midwife friends who linked me with a PMHNP and I started to receive therapy. Although my care team was not Kānaka Maoli and couldn’t provide the best, culturally congruent care for me, they did their best and with time I started to get better. I ended up having to quit my NICU job due to the continued anxiety 😥 Ultimately leading me to a new chapter in my life where I vowed to use my experience, nursing background and expertise to change the outcomes of others who were going through the same thing I experienced.
This led to me co-found a Maternal Mental Health Coalition jn Ventura County, getting a Doctor of Nursing Practice degree focused on improving every bad outcome that I experienced and then doing a post- doctoral program in Psychiatric Mental Health with a focus on Perinatal/ Reproductive Mental Health. ✊🏽
This picture is of my almost 10 year old child reading the poster that I presented at a conference about that work. I was cleaning out a closet and getting ready to toss the printed poster and he literally stopped me and said, “No! You worked so hard on that and there’s nothing like reading the original so I wanna keep it and I’m gonna read it!” He laid it out and pinned the ends down with his weights and went to it😭😭😭
This story of my experience is why I do what I do. 💙💙💙

01/07/2024

Honored to be able to offer my mana'o about what I’m seeing on Maui related to pregnancy & postpartum mental health for the fire survivors.
Mahalo nui to Free Hawaii News and Kumu Hinaleimoana Wong & Leon Siu for inviting me to share.
Interview here or see link in my stories: https://youtu.be/Q4bvICyIQAs?si=uqTJkWIxk33bjpwl

01/06/2024

https://youtu.be/Q4bvICyIQAs?si=MWh-Qy07KD06Pwom

- Featuring How To Solve The Current Mental Health Crisis Caused By The Maui Fires & What Role The Pacific Way Can Play In Bringing Healing, ...