Jane Mai Ngo

“Ugh…life.” “I don’t understand myself” “Loneliness” These are just three headlines written by three of 10,000 users on ShareSpace, a new social platform and app dedicated to mental health and well-being, created by two friends Konstantin  and Dan. The ShareSpace Founders Dan and Konstantin met in November 2019, in Los Angeles, California during an autoshow while they were both university students. While strangers at the time, Dan and Konstantin both saw a need to destigimatize mental health.

Vietnamese is a useless language. Everybody in Canada speaks English. This is what I told my mom when she insisted that I take Vietnamese language lessons at school to honor our culture. I felt embarrassed because I was the only Vietnamese kid in my class, and decided I’d fit in better by sticking to English.

Features Amid the alarming spike in violence against Asian women, Jane Ngo asks Asian female therapists how they are cultivating the space to heal themselves. Amid the alarming spike in violence against Asian women, Jane Ngo asks Asian female therapists how they are cultivating the space to heal themselves.