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Hello, I’m KIM, creator of Energy Maven MD.
Pleased to meet you.
My heart beats in the realms of healing, discernment, and focused health and wellness. I have worn many hats so far in my journey—scientist/researcher, academic internal medicine physician, church music worship team member, elder, and health and wellness coach. I had it all together, until I didn’t.
I possess a lifelong deep commitment to easing suffering by listening, guiding, strengthening through communication and education, cultivating compassion for self and others, connecting with partners, designing well-being strategies, and nurturing routines and habits. Through 25 years in academic healthcare, I dedicated myself to the art of traditional healing. Over time, the demands of this path led to burnout and moral injury as I realized that for true healing the world needed fewer pills and procedures and more rest, pacing, and community.
When the pandemic struck, my professional burnout accelerated, and I experienced a personal health crisis: a post-COVID stroke and challenges of long COVID. This journey has served to strengthen my resilience and perseverance to continue in my true calling as a healer. Due to my pivot to EnergyMavenMD healer using Self Care is Health Care, I reset and now live abundantly each day. I regained my sense of purpose and follow a deeper calling to spread my message in the world.
My mission is to partner with you, guiding you to discover balance and fulfillment by grounding in spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental wellness. I welcome you to come as you are, confident that I will bring out and reflect the energetic spirit I can see shining from within you,
WHY DRAGONFLIES?
Dragonflies have always been with me. As a child fishing on the banks of many different waters, the dragonflies surrounded me. I was thrilled watching them dart back and forth, seemingly effortlessly, in all directions with lightness of being. My spirit soared with them high up into the air and then back down again to the water’s surface to drink or gently place their young into the nourishing pond.
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Although I did not recognize it at the time, these moments of watching dragonflies were some of my first experiences with understanding how energy flows. As I prayed they would never land, my calmness was inevitably interrupted by the calling of my parents to get into the car so we could leave. I was always disappointed, but I knew I would find them again and return to reengage in this sense of peace.
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Even today, I am enamored with dragonflies. My favorite is the blue damselfly. I am continually in awe of the strength of their paired connection, as I watch them dance above the water’s surface in a delicately balanced flight. I also marvel at their wings. How could something so delicate be the source of such power? They hover, beating all four wings in perfect harmony to attain stillness, and then, without even signaling the energy transition, they zoom up to 35 mph forward, backward, up, down, and even diagonally.
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Yet, I have not observed a dragonfly in transformation—the divinely designed transition from water to air, the metamorphosis from larva to adult. I continue on the quest to see a dragonfly perched on a cattail in perfect stillness as it patiently waits to finalize its formation and take flight.