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What if healing the past could change what you pass on?
Through a series of intimate conversations with her younger self and another of letters to her daughter, Yollanda Zhang traces her journey through childhood trauma and mental health challenges — including a diagnosis of bipolar disorder — to a career and motherhood.
With raw honesty, heart, and wisdom, Zhang examines themes of intergenerational trauma, cultural identity, inner-child reparenting, and mental health stigma in immigrant communities. She also provides her Dear Younger Me™ toolkit: practical methods, frameworks, and healing practices rooted in her lived experience and therapeutic training that can help you overcome shame and gain self-acceptance.
Perfect for parents, young adults, and anyone seeking hope after hardship, Dear Younger Me is more than a story of healing from the past — it’s an invitation to begin again.
Through a series of intimate conversations with her younger self and another of letters to her daughter, Yollanda Zhang traces her journey through childhood trauma and mental health challenges — including a diagnosis of bipolar disorder — to a career and motherhood.
With raw honesty, heart, and wisdom, Zhang examines themes of intergenerational trauma, cultural identity, inner-child reparenting, and mental health stigma in immigrant communities. She also provides her Dear Younger Me™ toolkit: practical methods, frameworks, and healing practices rooted in her lived experience and therapeutic training that can help you overcome shame and gain self-acceptance.
Perfect for parents, young adults, and anyone seeking hope after hardship, Dear Younger Me is more than a story of healing from the past — it’s an invitation to begin again.
Price: $21.99
Pages: 260
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Imprint: Dundurn Press
Publication Date:
June 8, 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, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / Motherhood, 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.