About Angela

My parents are from Hong Kong, but I was born in the US and raised in New Zealand. I'm a so-called International School kid. I've lived in many places, including London, New York, Spain and Boston. My homes are currently Cape Town and Amsterdam. I love places with wild, untamed nature and open, warm people.

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I haven't always been able to hold space for and guide others the way that I do. 

 

My parents were not taught to regulate their emotions, and I was punished physically as a child. This deeply impacted me. I wasn't aware of my 'trauma' until my late 20s. Whilst on the outside, I was confident, had achieved a lot and travelled the world having adventures, I felt deeply lost and confused. I was dissociated and reactive, always ruminating and easily disregulated. I couldn't hold down a job or a relationship. I was completely disconnected from my body and emotions. Ask me to be vulnerable and I'd say "why?"... I carried a lifetime of unprocessed pain and I escaped through novelty, drugs, dating and partying. I eventually ended up in a serious drug addiction, a failed marriage, a confused purposelessness in my corporate career and an overwhelming feeling that had been there the whole time: that I was fundamentally broken.

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Everything came to a head and my healing journey began. I began unpacking my past experiences and questioning the labels I was assigned, like C-PTSD, recurrent depression, BPD, and ADHD. I came to learn who I really was: a highly sensitive, neurodivergent, sensual, wild woman. I spent years exploring every modality under the sun, becoming whole. In that process, I fell in love with sharing the very things that transformed my life with others. I trained in facilitating breathwork, movement and somatic practices, to help people clear their nervous systems, unlock their own sense of felt-safety, and stop living out of their heads. I learnt the art of circling and authentic relating, and the powerful nature of parts work. I became a yoga teacher, driven by my love for meditation, asana and yoga philosophy. I love weaving yoga, fascial manoeuvres, conscious dance (inspired by 5Rhythms) and bodywork together. I became passionate about emotional alchemy and radical self-expression. I am fascinated by the world of tantra, and one of my passions is couples work: polarity, intimacy and relationships. I often draw upon exercises from acting schools to help others explore their voice, awareness, movement and emotions.

 

Balance is important. Feeling and processing is just as important as taking inspired action. This is where coaching comes in. Coaching techniques help us take our vision of who we want to become and put it into motion. What matters more than understanding ourselves is getting out of our own way and actually taking the right steps for us, to do the things we need to do to thrive and succeed. Putting the theory into practice. How do we actually make our dreams a reality? How do we actually build the habits in our daily lives to set us up for the life that we want? I'm grateful to draw from my training from the University Cambridge and as a management consultant to support others in crystallising abstract concepts and an overload of information into clarity and action.

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If my story resonates with you and you're committed to doing the work, then please get in touch.

Let's organise a free call to get to know each other, because I believe it takes seeing and hearing a person to actually see if we're a match.​​