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Who is susceptible to writing a performative essay? An overworked student with darkening circles underneath their eyes, churning out grey hair in their sleep. The stress of trying too hard to impress someone.

That was me at one point in time. I was the first one in my family to go to college, and learned about admissions entirely on my own. I read every book I could find on college admission essays (highlighted and with notes, of course). I tried so hard to be "unique", "quirky", to write what I thought would stand out in the admissions counselor's mind.

That resulted in my performative essay onnnnn (drumroll please) how I once saved a cockroach from dying. Yes, I know. :)

But somehow when I wrote my supplement essays, I let something else flow through me. I actually enjoyed it for the most part. I tapped into what was alive within me, and what came out was my fascination with nature and life around me. I wrote in awe and vivid detail of how sand crabs carve their little homes in the shoreline of the ocean. The connection between "small" things and "big" things. The oneness of life, the colors of my attention, how my cells came alive when I was immersed in the wonders of nature.

I got admitted into almost all the colleges I applied to. I had top grades and very strong leadership roles, leading amongst the largest fundraising and nonprofit projects in the history of my school.

In this five-week mentorship, I help guide you to listen to yourself. An anthropological excavation into what makes you come alive. We find the real thing beneath what you think someone else wants to hear.

An admissions counselor reading hundreds of essays a day is not looking for a generic, formulated essay. They are looking for writing where they can feel your passion through the osmosis of a computer screen. Where they can feel the texture of your soul through the words you write. An essay that changes the way they look at the world, because they just saw it through yours.

What we are all looking for, in essays or in life (hah), is learning to belong to yourself and express your truest essence. I've spent all my life doing that with myself and helping others do the same.

My heart led me to Sadhguru's Isha Yoga Center ashram in South India. My love for spirituality, curiosity for this being and inner transformation led me to living there as a full-time volunteer for almost 9 years. First and foremost as a spiritual seeker, a teacher and later, a mentor. I organized large scale programs, taught classical hatha yoga to a hall of over 700 people, and was a mentor to people who came for long-term residential programs all over the world.

I spent long periods in silence, and long periods in intense activity that has transformed me completely.

I bring that depth and care to this mentorship with college essays. My love for writing and art, and helping you connect with what is true within you, and putting it down on paper. That is my lived experience.

Following my heart, I moved back to Thailand last year, carving out a new life path immersed in both spirituality and serving others around me.

I am currently undergoing training as a somatic coach, to help others notice patterns within themselves and learn to listen to their inner knowing, and guide them back to self-trust. This is also my lived experience of my lifelong journey of continuously learning to create a safe space for every emotion that arises in the body and inhabiting deep acceptance.

Everything I do is to help people return to themselves. Because that is my exact journey and deepest passion.

Not only do we learn to listen to what is authentic within us, we also put it out with craft and finesse on paper.

My love for the spoken and written word goes back as far as I can remember. From the books I disappeared into as a child. The speech I gave at the Bangkok Rotary Club in 10th grade. Spoken word poetry at Tufts and Oxford. Curating content and conducting sessions for hundreds of people at a time while living at the ashram. I have spent my life immersed in the art of communication.

It is a craft to bring your heart-song into form, and it is a passion of mine to connect the two. To bring your authentic self alive on the page.