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Hello, I’m KIM, creator of Energy Maven MD.
So nice to connect with you.
My heart beats in the realm of healing, discernment, health, and wellness. I have worn many hats so far in my journey—scientist/researcher, internal medicine physician, church music worship team member and 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, creating understanding through communication and education, cultivating compassion for self and others, finding strength in connections, designing well-being strategies, and nurturing wellness habits. Through 23 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 the novel disease of long COVID. This journey has served to strengthen my resilience and perseverance to continue as a healer—and it became a pivot, revealing a new sense of purpose and a deeper calling to support others experiencing similar struggles.
The core of my journey is the realization that our greatest gifts are revealed through our deepest challenges, and that by embracing this truth, we can live our lives more energetically, passionately, purposefully, and connected to the world around us.
My mission is to partner with you, creating balance and fulfillment through spiritual, emotional, physical, and mental wellness realms. I welcome you to come as you are, believing that by listening with empathy and reflecting the spirit I see shining from within you, it will allow you to realize your own unique light and empower you to bring it forth into the world.
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.