About

"Sometimes you just have to take the leap and build your wings on the way down" - Kobi Yamada

I grew up in concrete jungles in Southeast Asia (Hong Kong, Singapore, very briefly Taiwan) and books were my refuge and inspiration in a world I found noisy and intrusive. I loved the way words made me feel; alive, illuminated, tickled, inspired, and most of all—understood. In day to day life rule-following, caution and conformity were encouraged and I was resistant to some of it. In many ways, I started forming my own compass, my raison d'être, through reading words penned by brave, imaginative souls .... and starting to put pen to paper myself.

I dreamed of writing like these other amazing people. I copied down quotes and passages I liked in stacks of notebooks. I wrote letters, notes, attempted stories. I have been paid to write, and I have blogged for pure passion. But when it came to writing an actual book, I kept finding reasons to abandon unfinished works. #recoveringperfectionist

Without God, my husband Jarred, a few good friends, and my firstborn who made me a mama, I would never have written and completed How to love with a healing heart. Since then, there have been a few other releases and I hope to keep creating and sharing new work.

I write because I have to, because I love to, because I need to "taste life twice" (in the words of Anaïs Nin) to make sense of things, and I share it with the hope of passing on a measure of inspiration, connection and joy to readers—just as so many writers have done for me all my life.

Originally from Singapore, I am now based in Auckland, New Zealand with my family.

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