July Newsletter: Creating a free, culturally-responsive mental health resource.

Hello!

We're just over the half-way mark for season 1 of the Asian Mental Health podcast and we were thrilled to find ourselves landing on the top 40 Health and Fitness podcast charts on Spotify in our very first week. 

We couldn't have done it without your support, so thank you for listening, downloading and sharing!

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🌱Here's a quick refresh of the episodes we've released so far:

Episode 1 What's Asian Mental Health? An introduction from the S&S team

Episode 2 How to tell your Asian parents you love them, featuring psychologist, Natcha Limpianunchai

Episode 3 What actually happens in your first therapy session featuring clinical psychologist, Dr Ahona Guha

Episode 4 It's okay, you are not your parents featuring start-up founder, Nathan Lee

Episode 5 Balancing Asian values and mental health, with the S&S team

🙏Tomorrow's episode is a really important one:

Episode 6 How to stop comparing yourself to others featuring DEI consultant, founder and Victorian international student of the year, Dr Belle Lim

🍃And episodes coming your way:

Episode 7 with counsellor, Bimba Chavan, released on Tuesday July 9th 

Episode 8 with psychologist, Anushka Phal, released on Tuesday 16th

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We created the Asian Mental Health podcast to act as a free resource to those who might not yet feel ready to seek help for their mental health. 

By sharing stories about mental health from the Asian diaspora and Asian immigrant perspective, we really hope that we can reach those that aren't being reached by mainstream services. 

If you know of anyone who may be interested in the Asian Mental Health podcast, please do forward your favourite episode on to them. You might be surprised at the depth of impact you might bring to someone's journey.

 ❤️Asami

🌱Upcoming workshops:

For therapists: Develop your culturally-responsive practice at our next professional development session, Connect and Grow on August 8th at 7.30pm AEDT.

Learning theme: Addressing the mental health needs of 1st, 1.5 and 2nd+ generation Asian Australians.

For international students from Asia: Express yourself, connect with others and learn skills to manage your mood via our Creative Arts Therapy workshops!

Starting Thursday August 15th 6.30pm. In partnership with LaTrobe University.

🦉 Interesting things relating to mental health and Asian Australian identity:

📚 Academia: This article explores cross-cultural mental health considerations within the prison system here in Australia. It's interesting to see how social and cultural environments interplay in a context like this!

🤳🏻 Music: For all those who love techno and house music, check out South Korean DJ Peggy Gou's new album!

📚 Books:  What does it mean to be Chinese Australian living on unceded Indigenous land? Monica Tan's Stranger Country explores this through her solo journey in the outback.

🔎 Searching for a therapist?

Connect with our new practitioners below, or share this page with someone who may need this
 

🎤 Therapist spotlight.

Get to know psychologist, Natcha Limpianunchai via our interview:

"You deserve to enjoy life and love yourself just because you are human, no conditions attached."

Get to know clinical psychologist, Roanna Chan via our interview:

"There is no "wrong decision", every step we take is with the knowledge and tools we have available to us at the time."

✨Thank you for reading up to this point!

We rely heavily on your generous support to provide ongoing and free mental health resources to Asian communities in Australia.

Support Shapes and Sounds HERE.

🐌 And last but not least:

Recently in social media land,

We shared the behind the scenes of our first ever podcast recording week. Explore our instagram to check out some of the content from our podcast! We hope you enjoy :)