Maya Luque is a strategist.  She helps businesses craft smart, perceptive ways of communicating.  The focus of her work is to help businesses build strong, long-lasting relationships with their customers. She has an M.F.A. and has created over 100 sculptures and installations.  Her background as an artist helps her guide people towards an emotion; to help them feel connected. Art is great for strategy because art history is full of telling and re-inventing stories, themes, emotions. Maya has a passion for observing the ever-shifting puzzle of trends, human nature, and people.  Maya is also the author of The Heart Of The Matter: EMDR Through An Adoptee's Eyes.  She shared her book with me on social media asking if I would be interested in sharing it with my audience.  I immediately knew I didn’t only want to share the book, I wanted to share Maya’s voice and entire story.  I asked Maya if she would be up for this interview.  I’m so honored that she said yes.  Her book and her story are so important. Listen in to hear Maya share: Her journey of being abandoned outside a police station in China during their One Child Policy to living her first 11 months in a Chinese orphanage to being adopted by a single mom in the US The lasting impact of her abandonment and how that trauma impacted her ability to cope as a child How she vacillated between extreme perfectionism and testing her mom to see if she would always really love her Her lifelong patterns of trying to prove her worth How she got started in EMDR therapy What EMDR is and how it helped her recover from her trauma How EMDR allowed her to finally find herself lovable Why she wrote The Heart of the Matter in a really approachable way so all ages could use it as a tool Links mentioned: Maya’s Book: The Heart Of The Matter: EMDR Through An Adoptee's Eyes Connect with Maya Maya on Instagram Color for Charity Coloring Book Thank you to our sponsors: Talkspace: To match with your perfect therapist for a fraction of the price of traditional therapy, go to talkspace.com, Make sure to use the code SHAMELESS to get $100 off your first month and show your support for the show. Cubo Ai: Go to getcubo.com and use my code “SHAMELESS “for a discount off your order.