Choosing Life: A Memoir of Healing, Belonging, and Coming Home to Myself

What if everything that shaped your life could become part of the journey home?In Choosing Life, Carol Sun shares a deeply personal journey through childhood wounds and abandonment, complicated family bonds, heartbreak, achievement, spiritual awakening, and an unexpected health crisis that changed the way she understood her life and herself.Growing up in Shanghai with an often-absent mother, a complicated relationship with her father, and the wounds of childhood abuse, Carol carried a deep longing for love, safety, and belonging. Her grandmother became the steady source of love and home she could return to. Years later, Carol built a successful life in corporate America, yet something deeper within her remained unresolved.Heartbreak eventually led Carol to Peru-a place that felt like home to her soul. There, her experiences with the plant medicine ayahuasca brought another long-buried childhood wound into awareness and opened a profound journey of healing, self-love, and self-discovery. They also revealed something unexpected: a sense of purpose and a calling to help others heal. In time, Carol left the corporate world to follow that calling.Then an unexpected health crisis changed everything.Already deeply immersed in healing, Carol found herself being asked to look again, but through a different lens. Her search led her further inward, toward the wisdom of her body, the family patterns she had inherited, and a new understanding of her relationship with her parents. What began as a search for answers became another layer of the journey: one of acceptance, compassion, and seeing her own story in a new way.Choosing Life is an intimate and hopeful memoir about healing and belonging. It is about making peace with the past, letting go of what is no longer hers to carry, and choosing how to live the life that is here now.The journey of Choosing Life also lives in music through a companion album of original songs-another expression of the memories, emotions, and healing woven throughout this story. Choosing Life by Carol Sun is available on major music streaming platforms.It is about coming home to yourself.