Approaching Your Fears with Courage and Stretching Yourself with Christina Chiu

What does it take to nurse a child with special needs?

Author, shoemaker, and health advocate Christina Chiu knows just what it takes as her son was born with a rare syndrome. She joins our Host, Yuliana Kim-Grant, to share her inspiring phoenix tale on how she takes on the challenges that come her way and how she continues to do what it takes to give her son the best life possible.

Christina and Yuliana start the conversation by discussing the event that reshaped her life — mothering her son who was born with a rare medical condition. She talks about how she dealt with her sense of hopelessness when her son was in the NICU and how she has grown to be more spiritual, embracing a mathematical idea of God. She then delves into her drive for more people to know their story, writing a memoir detailing her experiences as a result, and about dealing with uncertainties in the future. The episode rounds off with Christina identifying one person she would travel back in time to speak with, her grandmother, to ask her how she had so much courage - a level of courage that, as we hear today, has undeniably been passed on to Christina herself.

Episode Highlights:

• The challenging events that have redirected the course of Christina’s life

• A rare syndrome rears its head

• Handling the sense of hopelessness during her son’s surgeries

• A childhood memory that sparked a realization

• A mathematical idea of God

• Starting a memoir about her experience

• Navigating the sibling dynamic between her sons

• Dealing with uncertainties of the future

• One person Christina would go back in time to speak with