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 London. 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 experienced chronic physical abuse and neglect as a child. I was deeply impacted by this, yet 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 dysregulated. 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 which I had no idea I was running from. 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 devoted to my healing, exploring every modality under the sun, sitting with Master Plants, becoming whole. Purging, confronting myself, learning and unlearning. In that process, I fell in love with sharing the very things that transformed my life with others. I trained in facilitating breathwork and somatics, 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 learnt from Dr Joe Dispenza. I became a yoga teacher, driven by my love for meditation, asana and yoga philosophy. I love weaving movement, 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. From energy work, medicine ceremonies, to trauma-informed somatic experiencing - I really bring it all together in my work.

 

I'm not just here to hold space, I'm also here to help you DO. What matters more than understanding ourselves is actually taking the right steps needed to thrive and succeed. Putting the theory into practice. How do we actually self-soothe when the contraction kicks in, to reliably move from reacting to responding? How do we actually build the life of the person we want to become? I'm grateful to draw from my training from the University Cambridge and as a management consultant to support others in cutting out the noise. Put clarity into motion.

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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.​​