Heidi Yewman

Heidi Yewman

Inside the Empty Room

Watching the Oscar-winning documentary All the Empty Rooms brought me right back to when I was standing in Christopher’s room, a year after he was

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The Backpack Story

Our youngest brother had been dragging his feet on the last few assignments he needed to graduate from college and was considering dropping out. He

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Recording Dumb Girl

“Dumb Girl” is available as an audiobook — and I recorded every word. I assumed the hardest part would be the microphones, the mouth clicks,

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Memoir to Movement

I’ve told my story in Dumb Girl. Last year was about that—getting it out of my body and into the world, onto shelves, and into

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Holidays Are Hard

I remember sitting in church around this time of year when I was eighteen, desperately trying not to fall apart. I was in excruciating emotional

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Book Tour Recap

My book tour turned out to be far more than a series of events; it became an unexpected chapter in my own healing. I launched

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My Story in Newsweek

I recently had the honor of sharing my story in Newsweek‘s My Turn column. The essay is called “I Carried a Gun for a Month

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Halloween

“Nobody’s gonna know what I am,” Robby whined as I tied a knot around the thin rope connecting us. “Yeah, they’ll know what you are

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Flat

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Four years ago, my breasts were amputated. Yes, you read that right. A surgeon cut them out of my

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