Wellness Recovery Life Coaching
About Us
Meet Your Coach, Hera
This was my life. So if it sounds anything like yours, please know that you’re not alone. And you can feel better and build a life that brings you true happiness and clarity. If I can do it, I deeply believe that anyone can — and that includes you.
A Dysfunctional Childhood
As the youngest child in a dysfunctional Korean family of 7, the world weathered me fairly quickly. At a young age, I internalized daily verbal abuse from my older brother alongside the heavy weight of my mother’s struggle with anxiety, depression, and illness in the family. I grew up craving love and trying to earn it but feeling entirely undeserving of it.
Soon after, both my parents passed away. I felt alone in my grief, no longer knowing who I was in Korea and struggling with my own anxiety and depression, I set out for a better future in America.
I immigrated to America at the age of 21.
For my first year in America, I felt inspired like never had before and dove into beginning my new life. I completed my education, began learning English, and had soon built a thriving career in real estate. I married a good man, had two beautiful sons, and was by all definitions “successful”…
But as the excitement of America wore off, I found myself feeling just as anxious, depressed, and fearful as when I’d left Korea. Even with all of my “success,” I still wasn’t happy.
I threw myself into my work and
ignored my unhappiness and poor health…
Until the day came when I could no longer avoid the pain I’d been suppressing for decades.
Severe insomnia, constant anxiety and depression, picking fights to feel seen, drinking at times to numb the pain, exhaustion from always trying to be perfect and please people so I could feel “good enough”…
I still felt unfulfilled, unwanted, and craving meaning, but clueless about what would finally make me whole…
I finally had to face the fact that “success” in my career and relationship was never going to give me the peace, happiness, and love that I was seeking. I realized I had a choice: I could stay here and suffer, or I could choose to change.
I chose to change.
Over the next few years, I dove into self-reflection and self-care.
I slowly began healing the wounds of my childhood with the loving tenderness and empathy that my inner child was yearning for. I spent hours reflecting and seeking answers. I studied with a Zen master and spiritual teacher who guided me into a world of mindfulness and gratitude.
In this time, I learned how to let go of the busy-ness of the mind, filled with pains of the past and worries of the future, to instead find harmony with the beauty and peace that always exists in the present moment.
Mindfulness, meditation,
yoga, & present moment training
transformed my life.
- I realized most of my unhappiness had been self-created, projected from an unhealed past of rejection, low self-esteem, and lack of self-love.
- I stopped seeking validation and “wholeness” through my career and people’s praise.
- I no longer struggled with the poor mental health I’d experienced since childhood.
- I learned how to calm the cycles of stress and negative thinking, to find peace and clarity in the present.
- I started finally feeling happy.
This brought me to my life’s
mission: helping others find their
path out of suffering.
As an ICF-certified Recovery Life Coach and yoga instructor, I will guide you on an intimate journey within.
Together, we will lovingly work to clear your mind of worries and fears, so you can focus on what matters most.
We will plant the seeds of wellbeing and happiness through healthy habits and positive mindsets that allow you to access peace and clarity whenever you need.
Whatever it is you’re seeking — It is possible for you. It will take effort. But if you’re ready to commit, I will commit myself whole-heartedly to helping you find your way to healing, peace, and prosperity.