English Title: To Live
Author: Min Deng, PhD
Published: 2025
Pages: 57 pp.
Table of Contents Forward..............................................................................................................................................4
Introduction .......................................................................................................................................6
PART I – To My Fellow Sufferers ...........................................................................................................7
Chapter 1 Miraculous Physical Recovery ...............................................................................................8
Chapter 2 Mental Health.................................................................................................................... 12
Chapter 3 Live for Love ...................................................................................................................... 17
Chapter 4 My Christian Faith .............................................................................................................. 20
Chapter 5 Menopause ....................................................................................................................... 23
PART II – For Helpers ......................................................................................................................... 27
Chapter 6 What to Do ....................................................................................................................... 28
Chapter 7 What to Say....................................................................................................................... 33
Chapter 8 What Not to Say ................................................................................................................ 37
Chapter 9 Parting Words ................................................................................................................... 42
About the Author .............................................................................................................................. 46
To Thrive - Back Cover Blurb .............................................................................................................. 47
Stay Alive - Back Cover Blurb ............................................................................................................. 48
About the Author
Born and raised in China, Dr. Min Deng earned a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. She was baptized and became a Christian in 2009.
As a developmental psychologist, she is interested in parenting, child development, parent-child relationship, marital relationship, domestic abuse, suicide prevention, sexuality, and gender identities, etc.
From 2020 to 2021, she completed six biblical counseling courses at Christian Counseling & Education Foundation, including Marriage Counseling, Counseling Abusive Marriages, Helping Relationships, Counseling & Physiology, Dynamics of Biblical Counseling, and Counseling Problems & Procedures. Her first book of her series on mental health, Stay Alive, was published in 2023. As a follow-up on Stay Alive, she completed her second book To Thrive in the spring of 2025, which she shares freely online. Both books focus on suicide and its risks.
Her latest book To Live, a sequel to Stay Alive and To Thrive, is an autobiographical book on suicide prevention. She is currently in the early stages of preparations for writing her fourth book on domestic abuse. Additionally, she intends to write more on parenting, church hurt, sexuality, and gender identities, etc.
She is the Communications Director at LifeSpring Church in Durham, NC. She also provides free private biblical counseling at her church.
She lives with her loving husband of 20 years whom she met in 1997 and married in 2005, and their beloved dog Coco in the Carolinas. In her spare time, she loves watching the sunrise on the beach, hiking, working out, traveling, reading, and fashion. She can be reached via email at min.deng@gmail.com
