About the founder

For a long time I believed I had to meet certain conditions to be loved. A pretty face, a thin body, a good company: I thought that once I had everything other people approve of, I'd be happy. So I put the happiness of the present moment aside and ran toward my goals. What was waiting at the end was pain.

I wanted a thin body, so I pushed a diet too hard and spent five years binge eating. I jumped into an investment hoping to get rich overnight and lost the ₩100 million I'd spent my whole life saving. Forcing myself to stay at a company my parents liked, I sank deeper and deeper into depression.

Only after losing everything I'd valued most, my looks and my body, my money and my job, did I ask myself a question for the first time.

Who am I? Why am I living like this? What is this world?

I wanted to die, but I was too afraid to, so somehow I had to keep living.

Trying anything that might help me go on, I came across the idea of the inner child. That was the first time I saw that the belief that love has to be earned was only a thought of mine, not a fact. From there, I found the other fixed beliefs lodged inside me, one by one, and changed them.

My life now is nothing like it was then. I weigh more than I used to, and my body looks beautiful to me. The food I was once so afraid of now feels like love. I do work I enjoy and spend my time with people who care about me, and though there's less in my bank account than before, my life feels far richer and more at ease.

Watching the life I'd dreamed of become real, right in front of my eyes, filled me with an enormous happiness, and in that moment I knew that this happiness had to be passed on. I opened the Binge Eating Lab soon after, and started walking alongside people standing where I once stood, helping them learn to love themselves.

Thankfully, many of them recovered from binge eating, each at their own pace. What surprised me even more was that it was never just the binge eating: their work, their money and their relationships changed with it. That was the moment I knew for certain that inner-child healing and genuine self-love change a whole life.

Today I've moved beyond the narrow ground of binge eating to help with healing across the whole of life, from relationships and money to self-realization, and I'm putting everything I've learned along the way into books and videos.

I'm not a doctor. I'm simply someone whose life changed after meeting her inner child, and my mission is to share the road I walked in as much detail, and as plainly, as I can. If this reaches even one person, that's enough for me.