hi, i’m yvonne.
I’VE MOVED THROUGH MANY “MESSY MIDDLES” IN MY OWN LIFE:
From leaving the stability and safety of my corporate job, to pursuing my dreams of traveling the world at 28.
From saying no to the life and career my parents wanted for me, to claiming my soul’s deeper purpose and mission at 30.
From walking away from a 7-year relationship and engagement I was settling in, to moving to Mexico to start over at 35.
I know how scary it is to realize that the life you’ve built doesn’t fit anymore… When the old version of you is dying and the new one hasn’t quite taken shape yet. I know how scary it is to take a leap into the unknown… but I also know how much of your magic is buried there.
I’m here to help you uncover the unlived life buried within you. To help you take the risks that you want, but have been too afraid to take. To help you stay grounded and centered as you shake yourself from your status quo.
To help you move from confusion to clarity.
Self-doubt to self-trust.
Societal “shoulds” to soul’s truth.
I’m here to walk with you through the messy middle between who you were and who you are becoming. Between who you’ve been told to be and who you truly are.
I was forced to face the possibility of my own death at 32 years old, so trust me when I say that a life well-lived is a death well-met, and I’m here to help you live fearlessly so you can die without regrets. My mission is to help you build a soulful, courageous, and meaningful life. One that you can look back on from your deathbed and say, “I’m proud of the life I’ve lived.”
Education, Training & Certifications:
- B.A. Psychology | UC Santa Cruz, 2015
- Trauma Informed Coach & Catalyst | Lumia Coaching School, 2020
- 200 RYT & Reiki Lvl 1 | Spirit of Yoga, 2022
- Integrative Changeworker | Ethical Coaching Collective, 2023
- Trauma Informed Breathwork Specialist | Awakened Breath Academy, 2025
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood. This is the shamanic dance in the waterfall. This is how magic is done. By hurling yourself into the abyss and discovering it's a featherbed.”
— Terrence McKenna
“Life shrinks or expands according to ones courage.”
— Anaïs Nin
MY STORY & LETTER TO YOU
As an Asian American woman, child of a single, immigrant tiger-mom, and former corporate 9-5er, I know what it’s like to feel like I don't quite fit in the box I'm "supposed" to.
To wake up one day crushed by the realization that I had been living my entire life based on someone else’s definitions of success and happiness, not my own.
Like most children of immigrants, I spent my entire childhood learning that my voice was not important. That my definitions of success and happiness were not valid. That there was one "correct" path (good grades, good college, good job) and that it was the “only” path.
And so I did it.
I jumped through all the hoops only to realize on the other side, I wasn’t happy or fulfilled.
I wasn’t engaged. I was just running on the hamster wheel, going through the motions.
So, I quit.
I quit my comfortable, stable corporate job and bought a one way ticket back home to myself.
With that one way ticket I rode motorcycles through the mountains of northern Vietnam and learned to salsa on sweaty dancefloors with Colombian locals. I scraped my hands and knees rock climbing in Laos and swam with bioluminescent plankton on the beautiful beaches of Thailand. I sat in ceremony with Peruvian shamans and trekked through the unforgiving Patagonian wilderness with everything I needed on my back.
I’ve traveled around the world in pursuit of a sense of purpose or belonging—trying to figure out where in the grand scheme of things I belong—and through all that wandering I’ve realized:
The deep longing is not for a place, but is a yearning to return home to the authentic self and to honor all that the self needs to thrive.
When I decided to quit my job back in 2017, I gave myself permission to believe a more meaningful, impactful, and satisfying life was actually possible and, in that moment, I became the conscious creator of my life.
The moment I made the choice I took my power back and that small, internal act changed the course of my life forever.
I didn't know where it would take me at the time, but I made my heart's desires my priority and I believe that is what brought me into alignment with my soul’s mission. It opened the pathways for me to intersect and engage with the fractal line of my purpose, and I'm grateful every day that I took that risk.
If I hadn’t given myself the choice to do what my heart felt pulled to do, I might still be burnt out, working a job that feels “meh,” barely scratching the surface of my capacity for fulfillment, satisfaction, and joy.
Now, I’d be lying if I said it was easy. It wasn’t.
I had to unlearn all of the conditioning, shame, and shoulds that kept me stuck in a life that wasn’t my own. It wasn't the conventional path and I didn't have anyone to show me the way, but it has been a path lined with depth, purpose, and meaning.
And if there is one thing I've learned on this path it's this:
If you are spending all of your energy pretending to be something you’re not, trying to fit into a mold that was not designed with you in mind, you’ll have nothing left to give back.
By exchanging your authenticity for acceptance, you’re not only selling yourself short, but the rest of the world too.
That is why I do what I do.
Because I believe that every person has a light to share, it’s just gets buried beneath years of being told to be someone you’re not. And I believe, just as you were taught to dim that light and bury it, you can also learn to liberate it.
I know how scary it can be to take the unconventional path back home to yourself, but I also know what it's like to be on the other side of "I could never..." and trust me when I say, it’s worth it.
If this resonates with you, if you feel it in your bones, I’d love to support you on your journey.
In support of your unfolding,
Yvonne
You don’t have to do this alone.
My work as your coach and guide is to help you identify and unlearn the voices that told you, “you can’t.” To teach you to discern your own true voice from all the other voices you’ve picked up along the way.
I am here to show you the inner light you carry that you can’t see for yourself. To help illuminate the ways in which you were taught to be anything other than you and provide practical, actionable steps for you to rediscover your voice, trust in your innate wisdom, and carve a path toward a life that is meaningful to you.
I am here to help you design your own blueprints for the life you want, not the life you‘ve been told to have. To help you get curious about who you are, what you really want, and the impact you want to have on this world.
I am a life co-designer, a flashlight helping you to navigate your (sometimes bumpy) path to joy, a partner in your transformation, a catalyst for the change that you want and, deep down, know you can create.
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