You were made for more than this.

I grew up in Ottawa, Ontario as a first-generation Vietnamese Canadian - caught between two very different worlds. At home, life was rooted in traditional Vietnamese values and a family still healing from everything they had survived. At school, I was one of the few Asian kids in a predominantly white environment, which meant years of bullying and never quite feeling like I belonged anywhere. Those early years quietly planted seeds of depression, suicidal ideation, body dysmorphia, and an eating disorder - things I carried alone for a long time, because I did not yet have the language or the safety to do anything else.

Getting into university felt like the beginning of a new chapter - and it was. I discovered fitness almost by accident, and it gave me something I had never had before: a relationship with my own body that felt good. What started as a coping mechanism became a calling. By 2013, I had become the only student personal trainer on campus, and I also started teaching pole fitness - two things that, looking back, were both about the same thing: helping people feel powerful in their bodies.

I launched my personal training business, EH Fitness, and built it from the ground up - client by client, conversation by conversation. I graduated in 2016 with a BA (Honors) in Linguistics and Sociology, which deepened my fascination with how language shapes identity and how the stories we tell ourselves either hold us back or set us free.

I transitioned into online fitness coaching and quickly noticed something that no workout plan could fix: the same self-sabotaging patterns kept showing up. People would lose the weight and gain it back. Make the money and spend it all. Start strong and quit when things got hard. I knew the answer was not more discipline - it was something deeper. That realization changed everything.

In 2019, everything I had been pushing down came rushing up all at once. A full spiritual awakening. All the unprocessed grief, trauma, and old wounds finally saying: enough. I took almost a year to pause, heal, and go inward - and Evolve with Evelyn was born from that process. Not from a business plan, but from a breakdown that became a breakthrough.

I got certified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Clinical Hypnotherapy, Timeline Therapy (Time Techniques), Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and Life and Success Coaching - at the practitioner, master practitioner, and trainer level. I also became a generational trauma healing facilitator. This was not collecting certificates. This was me learning every tool I could find to help people heal at the root.

I enrolled at Life Chiropractic College West because I knew healing was not just a mind game - it lived in the body too. Between 2023 and 2026 I trained in over 30 modalities: Spinal Energetics, Active Release Technique (ART), Biogeometric Integration (BGI), Neuro Emotional Technique (NET), Webster Technique, Network Spinal, Dynamic Body Balancing (DBB), and so much more. Every single one added a new layer to the work I do.

This fall, I complete my doctorate in both human and animal chiropractic at Life West. Everything I have ever studied, trained in, lived through, and healed from - it all comes together here. Dr. Evelyn is almost here.