1.5gen Asian Therapist Harry Au 🇨🇦 on: Totoro 🐰☔️🍃 mental health journeys 🌄 book writing 📖 (42)

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Welcome back to Don’t Be Strangers, a podcast and community against adult loneliness. Our mission is to create deeper conversations and more meaningful connections by providing intentional resources, events, and community for curious and optimistic students-of-life to fight the myth that “making friends is hard!” I’m your host XinYi, and I typically meet my co-hosts for the very first time while recording! If this sounds fun to you, please consider applying to co-host a future episode.

For today’s episode, Harry reached out to me via another friend, Kyle, of the What Kind of Asian Are You? podcast asking for a collaboration. At this point, I had not edited a podcast episode in almost 5 months and had completely put this project aside in favor of working on my book How to Talk to Anyone for Introverts. At around the same time, I got reached out to by a musician and artist in NYC inquiring about the podcast as well as another long time friend asking if she could come on. With my book published and me primarily focusing on getting reviews at this point, I felt like it was the right time to get back into this podcast.

So for the first time in a few episodes, this was recorded relatively recently, in fact, only less than a month ago. Harry was a pleasure to talk with and so thoughtful in the way he responds. I would guess it attributes to his personality which perfectly suits his profession as a therapist. I hope today’s conversation puts a smile on you face as we cover topics such as…

• how to find the right therapist for you, Harry’s tips after having worked with 6 different therapists on different issues
• friendships and relationships as a digital nomad
• his love for Totoro
• our roles in activism and how we can participate even if we don’t have the emotional capacity to do so
• and my book, How to Talk to Anyone for Introverts

With that, please meet Harry…