From America to Hangzhou, Chelsey Goodan Partners with Vimi Wellness to Open a New Chapter in Women's Healing

From August 21 to 23, Chelsey Goodan, a U.S. adolescent education expert and USA Today bestselling author, traveled to China for the first time at the invitation of Zhang Xinyuan, founder of Vimi Wellness and a leading Chinese relationship expert.

Together, they led a "Healing the Inner Girl" workshop for nearly twenty mothers and daughters.

Goodan's workshops have spanned the United States, Australia, the Caribbean, and Europe — Hangzhou marks her first stop in China.

Chelsey Goodan has worked in adolescent girls' education for 18 years.

Her book Underestimated: The Wisdom and Power of Teenage Girls was a USA Today bestseller, received an Amazon Editors' recommendation, and earned a public endorsement from Academy Award-winning actress Laura Dern.

In China, Zhang Xinyuan has been deeply engaged in the fields of intimate relationships and women's health for 17 years.

As the founder of Vimi Wellness, she holds a postgraduate research certification from the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality in the United States, has over 5 million followers across Chinese social media platforms, operates two women's health specialty medical centers in Hangzhou and Hainan Bo'ao, and holds 25 national patents.

Their collaboration began in July of this year.

Zhang launched a month-long online book club in her community, guiding hundreds of families through Goodan's work to re-examine adolescent education.

Across six live sessions, the discussions progressed step by step, and many parents left comments such as: "The problem was never my child — it was me."

The online reading club opened a window of awareness and paved the way for an in-person encounter.

The workshop unfolded across four stages.

Goodan opened with "psychological safety," citing data showing that 74% of teenage girls experience significant stress, and that behind the "good girl" mask lie perfectionism and long-term suppression.

Participants were guided to observe their inner critical voice, name it, and separate it from their authentic selves.

In the body course, Goodan pointed out that 81% of girls begin experiencing body image distress from age 10.

"Adolescents observe everything," she reminded the mothers — do not belittle your own appearance in front of your daughters.

In the interactive segment, participants wrote negative labels their bodies had been given — "thighs too thick," "too dark," "fat" — on paper and stuck them to a model on the left; then wrote body parts they loved — "eyes," "smile," "waist" — and stuck them to a model on the right.

The exercise became a collective declaration of body autonomy.

The communication course centered on "reflective listening" — listen, suspend judgment, affirm.

Goodan guided mother-daughter pairs in practice: the mother would only restate her daughter's key words and validate her feelings.

"I know this disappointed you," "Your feelings are completely understandable" — these seemingly simple phrases allowed many mothers and daughters to truly hear each other for the first time.

Goodan introduced the 3R tool: Release the labels imposed by others, Reclaim your own definitions, Reframe stigmatized words — for example, rewriting "bossy" as "a natural leader."

That evening, participants tore up and discarded the slips of paper covered in negative labels, symbolizing a farewell to old narratives.

During the interactive segment, Zhang Xinyuan wrote down labels she had once carried — "disobedient," "ambitious" — and shared them with the group.

Goodan looked at her and said that it was precisely these traits that had brought her to where she was today.

The two embraced; Zhang wept.

"Your disobedience is your unique light," Zhang later told a participant — words that seemed also meant for the girl sh...