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Why Students Should Take a Break from School
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 8/20/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 8/20/18

Why Students Should Take a Break from School

I went from a pre-med student to a college dropout, to a personal coach. If you’re a university student and have been feeling a little stuck or confused about your path moving forward, read on.

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Building Discipline: I Did It for My Self-Esteem
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 8/11/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 8/11/18

Building Discipline: I Did It for My Self-Esteem

I really don’t want to write this blog post right now but I committed to writing one per week. So here I am, writing about not wanting to do things but doing them - for my self-esteem.

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Superhuman Syndrome: Are You Exhausted From Work?
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/30/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/30/18

Superhuman Syndrome: Are You Exhausted From Work?

Our dreams are limitless. But humans have our limits. So instead of overworking on the verge of burnout, let’s do something different. There is another way.

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On Increasing a Sense of Faith and Belonging
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/21/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/21/18

On Increasing a Sense of Faith and Belonging

While learning to manage my energies, I realized that I need this combination of belonging to self, Oneness + interconnectedness, and faith in order to do ANYTHING in my day.

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Does Your Self-Awareness Include Body Awareness?
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/14/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/14/18

Does Your Self-Awareness Include Body Awareness?

We already know what to do increase physical energy. But we won’t act until we sit in the discomfort and really feel how it feels to deprive ourselves.

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If You’re Thinking, “Meditation Just Isn’t for Me”
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/7/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/7/18

If You’re Thinking, “Meditation Just Isn’t for Me”

“Meditation just isn’t for me. I tried and I just can’t do it.” Trust me, I know the struggle. So for you folks, I’ve got a few pointers. Don't give up so quickly and read on.

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The Most Effective Formats for Journaling
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/1/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 7/1/18

The Most Effective Formats for Journaling

It's easy to journal in a way that feeds your pity party, keeps your blood boiling, or leaves you feeling more confused. Do not exercise the practice in a way that does not serve you.

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Susceptible to Burnout? You Might Need a Morning Routine.
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 6/25/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 6/25/18

Susceptible to Burnout? You Might Need a Morning Routine.

The alarm goes off. Snooze. Get up. Rush out the door. Arrive to work/school and try to focus throughout the day. Sound familiar? (If so, are you sick of it yet?)

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4 Questions to Ask Yourself During Transitions
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 5/27/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 5/27/18

4 Questions to Ask Yourself During Transitions

At every moment, we are becoming new beings and our life happenings guide us through that journey. And yes, we feel ALL the feels through it. So the question is this […]

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This Is Your Permission to Fail
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 4/30/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 4/30/18

This Is Your Permission to Fail

fail (v): to be unsuccessful in achieving one’s goal. We’ve been doing it since day one. Crying for a parent’s attention and failing [...]

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5 Steps for Cultivating Focus
Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 4/12/18 Written Collection Ji Youn Kim 4/12/18

5 Steps for Cultivating Focus

What we do with time is much more critical than making more time. [...]

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some writing after a session with my grief worker. inspired a daily water ritual that has been nourishing me. 

full thing on substack.

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Join me on Sat. June 7th for Practicing Feedback as a Love Language!

Doing feedback can be really hard, let alone doing it well with love. Here are some key building blocks that are relevant to both giving and receiving loving feedback, where mainta
While many of us know the importance of relational skills such as navigating conflict and repair after rupture, we’re often not taught or practiced in the building blocks that make these bigger pieces possible. 

Learning how to receive and off
i recently started doing some personal grief processing and i wrote a piece on life, death, and madness that helped me connect some dots.

it feels absurd to be writing about the grief of being alive when there's so much state-sanctioned mass death,
content note: mention of medical incarceration & sui/cide

i am a psychiatric survivor. i have been mandated under the BC mental health act several times and every time, involuntary "treatment" made me want to unalive myself even more t
rage is powerful, collective, energetic wisdom that needs to be felt through and expressed.

notice the difference between feeling rage vs. expressing rage.

rage expression can feel scary because most of us have had rupturing and/or harmful experien
it's been a while since my annual intro and now it's leo season ✨ so hello! my name is ji-youn, pronounced jee-yuhn like sun. they/she.

i'm a double leo and i really struggle with being in this space. i love attention and i hate being perceived. it
가자 지구 주민들의 인터넷 사용을 도울 수 있는 방법

통신망이 수없이 끊기는 지금, 가자 주민들은 e심이 필요합니다. e심을 구입해 #ConnectingGaza 로 직접 보내거나 가자에 e심을 보내는 장애인 모임(Crips for eSims for Gaza)에 기부를 해 참여할 수 있습니다.

e심을 구입해 #ConnectingGaza 로 직접 보내기
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e심을 보내는 장애인 모임(Crips for eSims for G

I am an uninvited guest, living and working on the stolen and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations, colonially known as Vancouver, Canada.

My relationships and responsibilities as a settler inform my work as I continue to try to unsettle the settler colonial project that is also deeply ingrained in the mental health industry.

Please check out native-land.ca to see whose lands you are on.

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