Elizabeth Su

Elizabeth Su

Hi! I'm Elizabeth! I’m the author and creator of The Adventure Tarot, a road trip-inspired deck about self-discovery, belonging, and celebrating Asian joy. While earning my master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, I studied burnout and perfectionism because I wanted to understand what was going on with me (and my clients) and why it was so hard to quiet the inner critic.As a natural storyteller, my work has been featured in notable media like the Los Angeles Times, POPSUGAR, and Bustle. But mostly, I share heartfelt things on social media. If you were to ask, “Elizabeth, what do you write about?” I'd probably start sweating because your girl hates an elevator pitch. If I had to narrow it down to a few words, I might say: self-love, personal growth, and being multifaceted.My writing teacher once told me that, as Asian American women, we often need to write ourselves into existence. That is everything The Adventure Tarot is to me. A window into my own self-love journey, a way of declaring to the world that I AM PROUD TO BE ASIAN.As a third-generation, mixed girl from the Midwest, I spent most of my life rejecting my Chinese side. Erasure and assimilation are their own flavors of racial trauma. The rise in anti-Asian hate crimes in 2020 hit me hard, and for the first time in my life, my Asianness felt important to me. Grief is strange like that. It’s like I didn’t realize what was missing until my heart felt this new kind of ache, a longing, a loss.At the time, my husband and I were living nomadically, traveling all over the United States. What started as a carefree road trip became a two-and-a-half-year search for belonging. It was through this reclamation journey that The Adventure Tarot was born.