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Nurturing New Narratives. 

Our community blog is a space to learn about a variety of mental health issues for Asian diaspora communities in the US. You can search our collection of personal stories, articles, news and other musings by a range of topics.

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Seeking Grant Writing Consultant

Project Overview Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC) fosters healing, resilience, and connection in Asian communities in the U.S. through culturally

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Volunteers Wanted: AMHC Is Recruiting New Board Members

We are seeking passionate, committed leaders to join Asian Mental Health Collective’s Board of Directors.   Do you…? a) have

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Seeking Clinical Mental Health Consultant

Applications are due by October 3rd, 2025! AMHC is looking for a clinical mental health consultant to join our team.

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The Truth About Seasonal Affective Disorder

5 minute read The days between Thanksgiving and the New Year can be a dizzying haze. Outside your window, you

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Staying Safe, Post-Election

7 min read The next four years can seem like a scary unknown, wherever you fall on the political spectrum.

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Why Organizers Need & Deserve Therapy

7 min read When winds carry the movements of an ocean, they form waves containing the momentum of the waters

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Processing Collective Grief, a check-in with Sara Stanizai, LMFT

This Fall has been filled with many strong emotions, as we grapple with the mass violence and genocide taking place

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Can Love Be Shackled?: Working with Queer & Trans South Asian Folks

In recognition of South Asian Heritage Month, we are excited to be working with the South Asian community to spread

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Courage + Growth: Taking the First Step & Working with the LGBTQ+ Community

​Read more about Christophe's experience as a South East Asian bisexual therapist and the expertise and experiences he brings to
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Being Seen: On Love Beyond the Binary, Community Care, and Becoming Our Truest Selves

Meet Sharlene Justo. Sharlene Justo is a queer Khmer-Filipinx gender fluid Associate therapist at Alvarado Family Therapy (San Diego, CA)
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Asian Mental Health Collective’s Intergenerational Trauma (IG) Recap

Click Here for WAVES Event Recording! You may have heard this from your parents, “Finish that last scoop of rice!

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AMHC 2021 In Review

Dear community, As we close out the year 2021, we are filled with immense gratitude and love. The Asian community

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Volunteer Spotlight: AMHC’s Newsletter Team

The Lotus is our monthly email newsletter that spotlights AMHC’s volunteers, lifts up diasporic Asian mental health stories, and provides

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Paying it Forward: Jane Kusuma’s Art for Reimagining Asian Mental Health

Jane Kusuma is an illustrator and designer from Seattle and the one-woman team behind Jovietajane Creative Studio. As the Asian

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Burnout, Rest, and the Asian-American Experience

Quarantined in my apartment, afraid to even get groceries, I was powerless. I was glued to my bed, just watching

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Ep. 19: Asian Identity and Therapy Ft. Alyssa “Lia” Mancao

In honor of Filipino American History Month, we’re revisiting Asian Identity and mental health, with special guest Alyssa “Lia” Mancao
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Ep. 18 Anxiety: Community Q&A

This week we're answering some questions we received from some of our community members in our Facebook group. We couldn't
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Ep. 17 School Anxiety and You Pt. 2

This week we’re continuing our conversation on school anxiety. We explore a few more of the specifics regarding school anxiety

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Ep. 16: How School Anxiety Affects Us

This week we’re continuing our conversations on anxiety, more specifically we focused on the anxieties of going back to school,

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Ep. 15: How We Can Understand Anxiety

We took a break last week for self-care, but we’re back this week to discuss anxiety. We tried to cover

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Ep. 14: How We Can Practice Self-Care

With everything going on in the world, we decided that it would be a good time to address the issue

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Ep. 13: Boundaries in Action

This week we’re wrapping up this series on boundaries and we’re exploring what boundaries might look like at work and

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Ep. 12: Boundaries: How Do You Know If They’re Unhealthy?

This week we’re continuing our series on boundaries. In this episode, we explore some of the factors that make boundaries

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Ep. 11: Boundaries: An Introduction

This week we’re starting a new series on boundaries. We hope that you’re able to get some helpful background information

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