THE WORLD BEHIND 5 : 13
I came to this work through legacy, loss, and a deep belief that healing should never feel one-dimensional. Before I ever stepped into the world of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I was already inside healthcare—working alongside my father in our family’s medical equipment import and export business, CI Healthcare, from 2004 until his passing in 2019. Strengthened by earlier degrees in Marketing and Business Administration, I helped rebrand, strengthen, and grow the company while learning the inner mechanics of service, systems, and what it truly means to build something people trust. That chapter shaped me just as deeply as my clinical training did. I am not only a practitioner. I am a builder.
My path into acupuncture was personal. During my father’s illness, the acupuncturist who supported him in palliative care at the cancer center became part of a turning point that quietly changed the course of my life. What began as witnessing acupuncture in one of the most tender chapters of my family’s story became the seed of a calling I could not ignore. The medicine that once appeared at my father’s bedside eventually became my own path forward. The quote that opens this page was spoken to me by my father during cancer treatment—and became a compass for everything I’ve built since.
In the years that followed, grief became discipline, devotion became study, and curiosity became practice. I pursued graduate training in acupuncture and herbology, where I immersed myself in the craft and intelligence of Traditional Chinese Medicine—not only as a system of care, but as a way of understanding the body as an interconnected, responsive, and deeply communicative whole. I was honored with the Clinical Excellence Award during my training, a recognition that affirmed what I already knew in my bones: this work asks for both technical skill and presence. It asks you to listen beyond what is obvious. Through more than 3,600 hours of clinical training in acupuncture, bodywork, herbal consultation, biomedicine, and diagnostic assessment, I developed a practice rooted not only in technique, but in pattern recognition, deep listening, and care that meets the whole person.
That same spirit lives in Bai Hu Society, a mentorship and study resource platform I created—one that began as a small circle of graduate students gathering weekly to prepare for board examinations and has since evolved into a living archive of support for students and alumni entering the field. What started as study pods became lineage, mentorship, and community—an extension of my belief that knowledge should be shared, not hoarded, and that the path into practice should feel supported, not isolating.
Today, my work through PHIVE13 is rooted in the understanding that the body is always communicating. Through acupuncture, herbal medicine, auricular therapy, facial rejuvenation, food-as-medicine guidance, and the quiet medicine of creative expression, I support people not only in addressing pain, stress, hormones, digestion, skin health, sleep, fertility, and nervous system regulation—but in reconnecting with the deeper patterns beneath what the body is expressing. My philosophy is simple: you heal, I facilitate.
PHIVE13 is the lived expression of a wider healing world. PHUNWRLD is where the rest of that universe continues to grow. Together, they form the larger ecosystem I’m building at the intersection of healing, nourishment, education, beauty, ritual, and care. This is not simply a practice. It is a living body of work. If you’ve landed here, welcome—you’re stepping into PHUNWRLD.
