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Maya Luque is a strategist.\xa0She helps businesses craft smart, perceptive ways of communicating.\xa0The 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.\xa0Her 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.\xa0\nMaya is also the author of The Heart Of The Matter: EMDR Through An Adoptee's Eyes.\xa0She shared her book with me on social media asking if I would be interested in sharing it with my audience.\xa0I immediately knew I didn\u2019t only want to share the book, I wanted to share Maya\u2019s voice and entire story.\xa0I asked Maya if she would be up for this interview.\xa0I\u2019m so honored that she said yes.\xa0Her book and her story are so important.\nListen in to hear Maya share:\n\nHer 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\n\nThe lasting impact of her abandonment and how that trauma impacted her ability to cope as a child\n\nHow she vacillated between extreme perfectionism and testing her mom to see if she would always really love her\n\nHer lifelong patterns of trying to prove her worth\n\nHow she got started in EMDR therapy\n\nWhat EMDR is and how it helped her recover from her trauma\n\nHow EMDR allowed her to finally find herself lovable\n\nWhy she wrote The Heart of the Matter in a really approachable way so all ages could use it as a tool\n\nLinks mentioned:\n\nMaya\u2019s Book: The Heart Of The Matter: EMDR Through An Adoptee's Eyes\n\n\nConnect with Maya\n\nMaya on Instagram\n\n Color for Charity Coloring Book\n\nThank you to our sponsors:\n\n\nTalkspace: 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.\n\n\nCubo Ai: Go to getcubo.com and use my code \u201cSHAMELESS \u201cfor a discount off your order.\n\n\xa0\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices