#23 Vivien Ong is a model from singapore. i met her as a cheerful and warm yogi and was surprised to hear that she was diagnosed with depression at age 13. a traumatic experience while hospitalized made her consciously want to start her healing journey. she talks about how she healed form self-mutilation, anorexia, and taking anti-depressants for 5 years... and how she keeps her healthy self-esteem being a model, in the tough fashion industry. 

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Vivien...

want to know what it's really like being a freelancer in ny... having a creative-mind... fighting for sustainability... going on that self-love journey... growing up in a different culture than all your friends... or battling with mental-health? or maybe you totally know what that's like and you are looking for people you can relate to? your host, Madelaine DeRose is a freelance art director and stylist, mothernature-loving, vagabond at heart, with a self proclaimed napoleon-complex, ever changing hair-styles and hopelessly dyslexic. she is inviting you to listen to honest and inspiring conversations with women about the creative-mind, spirituality, mental-health, inclusivity, sustainability, and female power. from her apartment on Ludlow St. in Manhattan. she introduces you to fabulous, inspiring, courageous writers, spiritual coaches, designers, business owners, make-up artists, photographers, and other go-getters, to encourage you to live your fullest life and give you a sense of a community.

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