October Community Newsletter: New podcast episodes

October 10th: The Asian Mental Health podcast returns!

Hello there!

Season 4 of the Asian Mental Health podcast is back this month, on Friday October 10th!🎉

This season, we invited therapists from the Asian Mental Health Practitioner List to talk about their own mental health challenges and how they navigated them to get to where they are today.

We hope that their stories will help normalise mental health conversations in our communities and that you'll learn actionable strategies that you can try straight away too.

For now though, please could you subscribe or follow us on your favourite streaming platform so that you'll be the first to listen to each new episode as they're released?

Here's where you can find us:

❤️Youtube
💚Spotify
💜Apple podcasts

This is the last season of the Asian Mental Health podcast (well, we're trying to find more funding - fingers crossed), so we hope that you love the season just as much as we loved putting it all together!

❤️ Asami

🦉What's on in October:

🖼️ Explore the rich history of Brisbane at Perspectives of Brisbane, now open daily at the Museum of Brisbane

🎑 October 2: Celebrate Moon Festival at the highest point of Sydney Harbour with lantern parades, lion dancing, and lots of good food and music 

🍨 October 3: Come and enjoy a fabulous night of dessert and music at the Sweet and Sound Open Mic!

🎇 October - November 16: The Tender Comrade exhibition at White Rabbit Gallery offers a compelling exploration of queer Chinese history, celebrating resilience and community bonds

📢  October 11: Join Women of Colour Melbourne's 2025 gathering, a day of connection and empowerment for women of colour, featuring live music, workshops, and community! 

🤟🏼 October 18-23: Korean superstar BIBI is bringing her 1st WORLD TOUR EVE to Australia this October! Expect Romance and full glam realness

🎼 October 26: Join eclectic harpist, singer, poet Freedom Fly for afternoon show in trio format at Mama Chen's on October 26 as part of the Melbourne International Jazz Festival

Looking ahead...

🎤 November 1-9: K-pop superstars Twice returns to Australia with four major shows across Melbourne and Sydney this November. Tickets now on sale at Live Nation. 

🔎 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 psychotherapist, counsellor, Carolyn Yin via our interview:

"In this present moment know that within you, you have the internal strength to overcome challenges."
 

✨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 some bloopers for season 4 of our Asian Mental Health podcast - which releases this month on October 10th. Stay tuned for more content on our Instagram!