Before You Kill Yourself: a suicide prevention podcast. Yvonne Liu: Adoption, mammograms, shackles of shame and how to improve your quality of life
New York Time's writer, Yvonne Liu, joins us to discuss her new memoir: "I Talk To My Mother in the Clouds." We discuss:
- surviving breast cancer
- mild bipolar diagnosis management
- emotionally immature parents
- burden of being a model minority
- orphaned in Hong Kong
- seasonal affective disorder
- imposter syndrome
- perils of "black and white" thinking
BIO: Yvonne Liu is a freelance writer based in Los Angeles whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Salon, Newsweek, NBC News and Insider. Over 1.5 million people read her HuffPost essay on why she kept her adoption a secret for over 60 years. She has published essays and op-eds on mental illness, adoption and childhood trauma.
She is writing a memoir I Talk to My Mother in the Clouds about overcoming childhood trauma: a newborn abandoned in Hong Kong, a malnourished baby in an orphanage, and then a childhood with a severely mentally ill adoptive mother. Readers and listeners worldwide said that her story made them cry but also gave them hope.
Yvonne is most proud that she has thrown off decades of shame and has minimized generational trauma. Her writing can be found at www.yvonneliuwriter.com. Her social media handles are @yvonneliuwriter Twitter and Instagram.