3 items to naturally build towards deeper conversations around emotional and mental well-being in your family:
Heal Forward is more than a card game: it’s a doorway to untold family stories, deeper connections, and shared healing.
Whether over chai or dinner, this game sparks meaningful moments and anchors our growing cultural movement.
Spice Up Your Mind: Issue 2 is here—packed with bold stories, striking visuals, and raw reflections from South Asian youth around the country.
This edition fuses culture, creativity, and conversation to spark mental health dialogue where it matters most: at home.
Our Conversation Guide is your go-to resource for starting honest, supportive mental health conversations at home.
Reviewed by professionals and designed with South Asian families in mind, it breaks down what to say (and what not to) in a clear, visually engaging way, because our youth deserve to feel heard, not judged.
Our Heal Forward Apparel weaves South Asian symbolism into every thread, featuring the kite as a bold emblem of family, identity, and rising together.
Wear it as a reminder that healing forward means lifting each other up.
After losing a close friend and his family in a devastating murder-suicide, two students, Ravi Parekh and Aaron Pandian, founded The Mental Health Initiative for South Asians (MHISA). Over 4 years, what started as an idea has grown into a national nonprofit focused on leveraging technology, research, education, and storytelling to improve mental health outcomes for South Asian Americans.
MHISA is an organization dedicated to enabling South Asians struggling with mental illness to lead better lives.
