In this December 2025 episode of ABC Radio's Ladies We Need to Talk podcast, host Yumi Stynes talks to psychotherapist and author Esther Perel about the importance of building supportive communities.

In the 21st century, we have a lot of independence and freedom to choose where, how, and with whom to live our lives.

But we often live far away from our extended families and are cut off from our neighbors, meaning we have fewer people to depend on. Having a village in the modern day takes effort.

Esther Perel is a Belgian psychotherapist and author. As the daughter of Polish refugees and Holocaust survivors, she grew up knowing what it means to build community from scratch.

In this December 2025 episode of Ladies We Need to Talk, Perel talks to host Yumi Stynes about the importance of cultivating close community bonds and how we can find chosen families wherever we are.