How my journey began
“What kept us alive, keep us from living.”
Linda Thai
I am Yee Thong, fondly known as YT - a coach, therapist, strategist and artist.
I have lived decades of my life, for others. I was under the spell of not knowing how to say “No” and I was constantly living in the shadows of “Not Good Enough”, Achievements are my ways to validate my self-worth. Being a brand and marketing strategist for over 2 decades had indeed brought me a lot of successes in climbing the corporate ladder, managing teams across 3 continents, and traveling across the globe, and living between Malaysia and Hong Kong. The 2020 pandemic was a wake-up call as my body had to say “No” as I had driven myself to complete burn-out and exhaustion with unprocessed depression and grief over time.
I started to question what I was doing; was it surviving or living?
“You can either leave something for people or you can leave something in people.”
Anne Lamont
I started my search for my calling as to what I can do, in service of others. Whilst I have been living in my shadows all this while, it almost needed these years of wisdom, experience and accumulated courage, before I realize what matters – what lifts me up, what vitalizes me, what energizes me. Now, I know it is about people and self-leadership. I realize that all the years of trials and turbulations are my path for deeper inquiry and discovery today. All these had brought me to Ontological Coaching and Compassionate Inquiry and this opened up many doors to many other modalities such as Internal Family Systems (IFS).
My mission is when people are liberated by being more expansive. I work together with you to facilitate the emergence of new possibilities, behaviors and actions by making you aware of your participation in constructing and co-creating the reality you desire. This takes courage to come face-to-face with one’s own fears and traumas, clearing the space for self-connection and resourcing sufficiently so that these changes are sustainable. I have worked with many clients from diverse background from Asia to America, with a wide spectrum of intentions, from defining one’s purpose in life, aligning to one’s authentic self, to understanding the “whys” behind certain physiological symptoms. I am also constantly learning and this becomes the bedrock of resources that you can tap into and leverage from.
My calling is to create an expansive and evolving ecosystem of health and wellness practitioners, I am still on this deep, transformative journey myself and I would like to welcome everyone to walk this path together with me. I am deeply passionate with the exponential impact that we can collectively create together. My door is always open for collaborations with Pioneers, Practitioners and Passion-Seekers.