I was born in Wuhan, China. At a young age, I grew up under the care of different members of my extended family. At around 5, I went through a big transition living in Qatar and London for a few years, before our family of 4 settled down in Florida, USA. As Chinese immigrants, our family was focused on survival — making money, taking care of physical needs, studying hard, and working hard because we came from poverty and a very competitive environment.

I graduated from Duke University with a BS in Biology. My career started out as a researcher in Neuroscience and Genetics for a couple of years. Then, I worked at big tech companies in the San Francisco Bay Area for 10+ years as a technology consultant, product manager, and senior technical project manager. Even though my parents were proud of me, I felt that my work and my life was not meaningful.

I eventually experienced aches and pains in my body, as well as burnout that led me to be sick. Truthfully, my body was telling me that I was living out of alignment. I was pushing myself beyond the limit of what was healthy in different aspects of my life. And I was searching for something that was missing but I couldn’t find the answer because I avoided confronting my own pains, anxieties, and difficult emotions to get to that answer.

Around 2019, I realized that I could no longer continue moving forward in the same way as before. It was not healthy and it was not sustainable. I took intermittent breaks from work for a few years to turn inward, be with the parts of myself that had been yearning for love and attention, and learned to listen to my own soft-sounding wisdom and intuition.

I went through the most challenging but most rewarding personal transformation I’ve had to go through to heal myself, get to know myself, love myself, find my voice, and develop my confidence to change my path. I learned to attune to my own needs, self-regulate my emotions, and truly listen to myself and others. A lot of my work also involved looking at the patterns I had inherited from my family and culture, and consciously shifting those patterns so that they served me better. My relationship with my parents was minimal and tense before 2020; in 2020 when I started to speak from my heart more vulnerably, my whole family changed too, for the better. We now spend months together, understand and love one another more deeply, and can communicate better. I have experienced many extremes throughout my journey physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually. I felt that I went through an excruciating death and was reborn so that I could live life all over again in the way I was meant to live it. Through my lessons, I learned how to be more connected, balanced, centered, and grounded.

I am a qualified life coach through the The Beautiful You Coaching Academy accredited by the International Coaching Federation (ICF). I am also a certified yoga teacher and certified Reiki master. I am sensitive to energy and believe our bodies are our greatest teacher. I am continuously learning other new methods to enhance my coaching because my evolution and growth doesn’t stop here!

I found the courage to transform my life. And I found the passions that bring me to life. I feel more whole, more loved, more blessed, more joyful, and more vibrantly alive than ever before! And I live a more sustainable and well-balanced life than I once did.

I know that this is possible for you too! I am thrilled to be your coach, and honored to have the opportunity to empower you to rise up for yourself. The work I’m doing in service to you brings me my deepest fulfillment.