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What if healing the past could change what you pass on?
In Dear Younger Me, mental health advocate Yollanda Zhang looks back at the experiences that shaped her, from childhood wounds and cultural expectations to motherhood and living with bipolar disorder, and asks what she wishes she could tell the younger versions of herself now.
Through intimate conversations with her younger self and letters to her daughter, Yollanda explores how our earliest experiences shape who we become, what we carry into motherhood, and how offering compassion to our younger selves can help us choose a different way forward.
Inspired by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, Dear Younger Me offers a hopeful vision of healing. Our past cannot be erased, but we can gather its pieces with care and discover the wisdom within them. Through the Dear Younger Me® Practice, readers are invited to turn that same compassion toward their own stories and draw on the wisdom of who they are today to connect with who they once were.
For mothers who want to heal old patterns so they can create something different for their children, Dear Younger Me offers hope that what was passed down does not have to be passed on.
In Dear Younger Me, mental health advocate Yollanda Zhang looks back at the experiences that shaped her, from childhood wounds and cultural expectations to motherhood and living with bipolar disorder, and asks what she wishes she could tell the younger versions of herself now.
Through intimate conversations with her younger self and letters to her daughter, Yollanda explores how our earliest experiences shape who we become, what we carry into motherhood, and how offering compassion to our younger selves can help us choose a different way forward.
Inspired by Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold, Dear Younger Me offers a hopeful vision of healing. Our past cannot be erased, but we can gather its pieces with care and discover the wisdom within them. Through the Dear Younger Me® Practice, readers are invited to turn that same compassion toward their own stories and draw on the wisdom of who they are today to connect with who they once were.
For mothers who want to heal old patterns so they can create something different for their children, Dear Younger Me offers hope that what was passed down does not have to be passed on.
Price: $21.99
Pages: 260
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
08 June 2027
Trim Size: 8.50 X 5.50 in
ISBN: 9781459757394
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Self-Esteem, Assertiveness, motivation, self-esteem and positive mental attitude, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Asian American & Pacific Islander Families, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Asian & Asian American, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Parenting, parenthood: advice, topics and issues
Yollanda Zhang is a registered psychotherapist (qualifying), mental health advocate, writer, and speaker whose work brings together lived experience, cultural understanding, and therapeutic insight. Through her writing, speaking, and clinical work, she explores intergenerational trauma, mental health, self-compassion, and what it means to break inherited patterns while raising the next generation. She lives in Toronto with her family.