Thoughts Within

And honestly? I think that was the greatest gift my parents ever gave me. They never once told me I wasn’t pretty. Never compared me to other kids. Never made me feel like I needed to be anything other than exactly what I was. Whether they secretly discussed their parenting strategy behind closed doors —…

I didn’t start yoga expecting transformation.Just once or twice a week — nothing dramatic.My work keeps me on my feet for hours, often leaning to one side. For a long time, my lower back and shoulders ached in a way I’d accepted as normal. This is just how it is. This is the body after…

There are so many lifting procedures available now. Thermage, Ulthera, Rejuran, Volnewmer, Titanium — the list keeps growing, and so do the price tags. Some of them might genuinely help certain people. But personally, I’ve never been very interested to that tightly-lifted look. To be honest about it — no matter how many treatments someone…

After I began to understand food and gut health differently, another turning point came when a colleague introduced me to Jessie Inchauspé. I began following her Instagram and eventually read her book, Glucose Revolution. One idea stayed with me — that simply changing the order of food could help stabilise blood sugar levels. It felt…

Before I started thinking differently about food, there were a few moments that made me pause. In 2020, I went through two episodes of severe gastro, and it took longer than I expected to fully recover. Later that year, I visited GP again because of ongoing abdominal pain, and during the check-up I was told…

Lately, I’ve been thinking about gut health not as something that needs fixing, but simply as part of everyday well-being. Growing up in Korea, fermented foods like kimchi and doenjang, soybean paste, were always on the table — nothing special, just ordinary meals. It was only later that I realised many of these familiar foods…

There was a time when resting felt like falling behind.If I skipped a workout, I felt guilty — as if consistency meant never stopping. But in my 40s, exercise started to feel different.It was no longer about pushing harder or changing my body quickly.I began to notice how my body responded to slowing down, to…

There was a time when exercise was mostly about losing weight. I measured progress by numbers — how much I lost, how quickly my body changed, how visible the results were.For a long time, that felt like the purpose of moving. But over time, something shifted. Exercise slowly became less about changing how I look,…