The Haven Community: Inside the Teenage Mind

Exploring New Hobbies and Activities

The teenage moment provides a great opportunity to seek new hobbies and activities to find passions that may grow all throughout life. In this episode of The Haven Community: Inside the Teenage Mind, host Nathan Lim joins Lanie Le and Alisa Castillo to reflect on some hobbies and activities that have been taken up during these teenage years. Overall, it's important to seek passions and enjoyment in being able to find hobbies in doing things that make life more meaningful and worth living.

Stepping Outside Our Comfort Zones

Stepping outside our comfort zones is not easy for all of us. There are fears that rise leading us to feel anxious about certain things forcing us to determine the validity and acknowledgment of doing things that are uncomfortable to us. In this episode, host Nathan Lim talks with Lanie Le and Megan Tecson on how we as teenagers can acknowledge these difficult stepping stones and what to expect when we really step outside our comfort zones, whether the results are good or bad.

Stereotypes of Modern Media

Mainstream media provides stereotypes that may distract us from seeing the beauty of ourselves including our intelligence and kindness. In this episode, host Nathan Lim talks with Shamiha Ahemd and Katie Trieu on how it's important to focus more on within and building up our emotional and intellectual mind instead of focusing on our appearance like shown with jocks in TV shows and movies.

The Fear of Growing Up

As teenagers, we start to realize our inner fears of growing up; we don't know what to expect and how we can live up to the expectation of others and our own success. In this episode, host Nathan Lim talks with Saibrinda Kotthru, Lanie Le, and Sumedha Budaraju on the topic of personal apprehensions on growing up and how we can overcome it with mental exercises.

Black Lives Matter, Part 2

Listen in with the team at The Haven Community as the conversation continues regarding the fight for realizing that Black Lives Matter and we all must take initiative and use our voices, platforms, and privelege.