Mental Breakthrough

This episode is to honor victims of sexual assault and survivors of emotional and psychological abuse. My story can be triggering so listener discretion is advised.

In this episode, I share my story of what launched my healing journey. It was a season of toxicity coming to an end followed by a new season of brokenness. I talk about the storm that irrupted after I publicly condemned the man that sexually assaulted me on Instagram, be...

This episode is to honor victims of sexual assault and survivors of emotional and psychological abuse. My story can be triggering so listener discretion is advised.

In this episode, I tell you the origin story of my pen name persona, Sincerely Miss Mary. She was created during a season of depression and in the midst of the gaslighting and victim-blaming, I endured after confronting my partner about his predatory friend.

My ...

This episode is to honor victims of sexual assault and survivors of emotional and psychological abuse. My story can be triggering so listener discretion is advised.

In this episode, I talk about the rejection I faced from my partner’s friends and family who knew the man that sexually assaulted me. As painful as this experience was, I now see it as a blessing in disguise. I was being protected from people who are part of a ...

I share how I reframed rejection as happening for me instead of to me.

I will be walking you through the way I reframed my mindset to overcome the most traumatic rejection I faced after publicly condemning the man that sexually assaulted me.

I take you through my thought process from what I’ve learned in cognitive behavioral therapy. If you’re not familiar with CBT, it is a type of therapy that guides you to reframe your mindset and ...

This episode is to honor victims of sexual assault and survivors of emotional and psychological abuse. My story can be triggering, so listener discretion is advised.

This episode is a continuation of my story from the aftermath condemning my partner’s best friend for sexually assaulting me (Episode 1-3).

I talk about how an inspiring pep talk with a dear friend empowered me to move forward by reminding me to dream...

This episode is to honor my favorite holiday, Valentine’s day!

After learning to love myself, post-heartbreak, I was finally able to invite the right kind of love into my life.

In this episode, I take you through the steps to move forward to your future self that is healing, glowing, and thriving.

This is your reminder that heartbreak lasts for a season.

Keep moving forward with curiosity to the potential of who you...

This episode is to honor survivors of sexual assault. My story can be triggering so listener discretion is advised.

In this episode, I share a story about the Karen of my life. She is a woman, in my ex’s inner circle, who chose to turn her back on me after I condemned her friend for sexually assaulting me. 

I talk about how silence and complicity keep the toxic culture alive of letting men get away with sexual assault. It is so impor...

This episode is to honor survivors of sexual assault and emotional abuse. My story can be triggering so listener discretion is advised.

In this episode, I share how I asked for help for the first time so I can quickly escape my abuser. I talk about how I became transparent about my truths for the first time with my mom, who rarely spoke about our emotions, and how this led to dismantling the toxic Asian culture of suppressing our fe...

In this episode, I tell my story about going to my friend’s wedding solo for the first time and how this was the start of me falling in love with myself.

Society pressures us to attach our worth outside of ourselves, which made me feel like I was more worthy when I was in a relationship, even though the relationship was toxic.

We are all capable of giving ourselves everything we wish someone else would give us. I hope this episode in...

In this episode I tell you about a traumatic friend breakup I had the summer of 2019. My friendship with a best friend began to shift as I was choosing the path of healing, self-love, and growth in my single season. My friend began to side with my abuser and invalidate my experiences as a victim. I had to make one of the most difficult decisions in my life and let her go.

Friend breakups are harder than relationship breakups es...

In this episode I talk about my experience of growing up as an Asian American. There was a lot of shame, assimilating to whiteness, and also confusion of my identity.

It was a constant battle of not being asian enough or being too white. I never felt like I belonged anywhere until I met one of my best friends in 4th grade. This friendship gave me permission to accept myself in ways I couldn’t get to, alone.

Surrounding yourself with ...

In this episode, I share a story from a current chapter of my life. This is my love story of attracting a love that feels like home.

Before I share my story, I discuss the fear of worthiness, a belief I carried with me throughout my toxic relationship and even before. To attract a healthy love is to dismantle the belief that we are unworthy of healthy love.

The process of healing after heartbreak is the process o...

Qian Julie shares her story of being an undocumented child in New York City, her experience working her way up the corporate litigator ladder as an Asian American woman, and how a mentor encouraged her to write her book. This is an inspiring and powerful episode.

About Qian Julie:
Qian Julie Wang is a graduate of Yale Law School and Swarthmore College. Formerly a corporate litigator, she is now managing partner of a la...

Today's episode is your guide to navigate through the pain of being cheated on. I share my first trauma story I published about this topic and how I was able to heal through this heartbreaking betrayal within the trauma writing process.

• I discuss the trauma writing process of writing about this betrayal.
• The 3 things to remember if you were cheated on
• How to have compassion for your ex's partner if they moved on before y...

In this episode, I talk about how writing my vulnerable stories lead me to become the person I am today, an unapologetic badass.

Writing was the vehicle towards my healing journey that intertwined my once disconnected mind, body, and spirit. I had never been a writer prior to creating Sincerely Miss Mary in 2018.

It was a tool of survival that allowed me to become unstuck from the traumatic experiences I was living and rescue myself....

Trigger Warning: Stalking and psychological abuse

The title says it all in this episode. I ran into my ex at my first half-marathon race in the fall of 2019, believing it was a coincidence when eventually I found out it wasn't.

Few people believed me that he stalked me, but eventually, I was validated by Allie Davis, an Ecofeminist Therapist with a Ph.D. in developmental trauma who has helped many women heal ...

In this episode, I talk about one of my favorite self-love/self-discovery/semi-solo trips to the Hamptons. This was part of my journey of deepening a relationship with myself, dating myself, falling in love with myself, and doing things for the first time alone like take a private surfing lesson and hitchhiking in the Hamptons. In moments of solitude, we discover who we are.

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In an impulsive decision, I decided to go on a solo trip to Paris in the fall of 2019. This led me to a journey toward self-love and self-acceptance through reconnecting with my cousin and an old friend from the time I lived in Florence. My solo trip was a journey towards returning to myself and loving the person I was becoming.
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For so long, I shamed my Cambodian heritage to assimilate to American white culture. But after my tumultuous breakup that ignited my healing journey, I began to unravel my family's history and learn about the story of their escape from the Khmer Rouge regime. In January of 2020, pre-pandemic, I traveled to Cambodia with my family and uncovered the untold stories of my family's experience living in the Killing Fields.
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