View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Elizabeth Su✨ (@heyelizabethsu) Adulting is hard. Trauma sucks. And everything is way too serious. The Creativity Playground is your permission slip to do something just for fun. I’ll kick us off! Here’s my creative expression for the month: I stopped setting New Year’s resolutions […]

“Not all traumas were caused by mistakes that require a lesson to avoid repeating them…they weren’t events summoned by their unconscious or their karma to teach them something they need to learn…they were attacks.”—Jeff Brown   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Elizabeth Su✨ (@heyelizabethsu) #REALTALK Spiritual Gaslighting: I am not […]

“I grew up never seeing myself on-screen, and it’s really important to me to give people who look like me a chance to see themselves. I want to see myself as the hero of any story. I want to see myself save the world from the bomb.” —Sandra Oh   View this post on Instagram […]

“Fear is always there; it’s a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.” —Jimmy Chin Embracing Uncertainty: Last month, Andrew and I climbed The Grand Teton, or “The Grand” as locals call it—13,775 ft, whew! It was our first mountaineering experience and it took everything in me to get up that […]

“I just had what some call a weekend. I didn’t work for two days. I watched TV. I went hiking. I took naps. I ate ice cream. And now I’m walking into Monday rested and rejuvenated. It feels wrong. AM I IN TROUBLE?” Real Talk: Part of self-love is learning to take breaks, which is […]

“is there a world free of hungry ghosts, where my body is not picked apart by needy vultures, taking my magic for free until there is nothing left of me. the internet” —Elizabeth Su   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Elizabeth Su✨ (@heyelizabethsu) Exciting Book Update: Well friends! One year, […]

“Do you ever wonder why it is that your healing digs up more despair, triggers, loneliness, and shame? It’s because you’ve found the very areas where the work needs to happen. That’s your roadmap. It’s in those dark places that true and sustainable work thrive.” —Dr. Mariel Buqué   View this post on Instagram   […]

“I speak your language with no accent. I erased my ancestors’ name with no traces. I covered myself to show less skin. I scoffed at my parents’ culture to fit into yours, and yet, you spit in my face. You say I don’t belong. You call me foreigner. You cut off my legs and you […]

“I am making the brave decision to keep going anyway.”—Morgan Harper Nichols   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Morgan Harper Nichols (@morganharpernichols) #REALTALK   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Elizabeth Su✨ (@heyelizabethsu) Never Not Learning Self-Compassion: Oy vey, has this month been a doozy or […]

“In our perfect ways. In the ways we are beautiful. In the ways we are human. We are here. Happy New Year’s. Let’s make it ours.” —Beyoncé   View this post on Instagram   A post shared by Elizabeth Su✨ (@heyelizabethsu) Presence: As we head into the New Year, I’ve been thinking a lot about […]