I’m In

A story about choosing a life of my own.

I’m In is a collection of personal essays I wrote in Korean and published by Bookstone in 2020. The book traces my journey from Wall Street and Silicon Valley to the work I do today as a psychospiritual teacher. At its heart, it is the story of learning to step away from the life I thought I was supposed to live and begin choosing one that felt truly my own.

In my mid-thirties, I was single and leaving behind a respected career to go live in the jungle. If you know anything about being a daughter in Korea, you might understand why this felt like one of the greatest sins I could commit against my mother.

And yet, in many ways, I was doing it to honor her.

My mother and I shared the same birthday. She spent much of her life sacrificing for others, and she died of cancer far too young, in her fifties. Losing her left me with a question I could no longer ignore:

If I, too, could die young, what would make my life worth living?

I became determined to find out.

That search took me through grief, spiritual exploration, unexpected places, and unconventional choices. Along the way, I began discovering the courage to listen to myself, the compassion to make peace with my past, and the freedom to choose a life that felt more like mine.

When I wrote I’m In, I wanted to share something I had needed to hear myself—and to share it first with the culture that had shaped so much of who I thought I was supposed to be.

Ultimately, I’m In is about what happened when I stopped trying to perform my life and began learning to be fully in it —with courage, trust, and compassion.