And I, and I would like to explore with you how this, um, started, how all this started through your own journey, and you can go as far back as you like in your own, uh, personal path.

So I have always been, you know, growing up in a Korean society till I was about 11, I was always told that I am a chatterbox, I'm a bit too much, and I was always the loud one or the expressive one.

[laughs] And also, I- I struggled a lot with connection, which is one of the trauma that I carry, is I have been very disconnected from like a core bond that a human, humans actually need in a, um, earlier development.

So, um, just carrying all of this, I just kind of about, you know, when my son was born in seven years ago, I had to explore a lot of really the shadow, the deep, you know, s- side of my psyche that was really needing to be s- seen and heard and felt and loved, all these things.

Um, I realized that, you know, all of this experience I have is not gonna be for nothing.

This has been really my biggest drive, is like my pain is not gonna be for nothing.

I will use this pain for something, to bring beauty and to bring the safe space that I've been yearning all my life, and that, part of it is somebody needs to be a witness.

the concept of Manawa, Manawa Festival or Manawa Connections.