Kim’s Story
I wasn’t fully aware of the story behind SØSOUL until after the renovation in December 2024.
For almost three years, it had been the space where I offered regression therapy and PSYCH-K® sessions, while slowly building a team of facilitators who shared their gifts, sound healing,and other transformational practices.
But after the renovation, the front became a shop. Something I had always dreamed of, from the day I started SØSOUL.
In the months that followed, I found myself telling more and more people about my journey, and somehow, by speaking it aloud, my ears could finally hear what my heart had always known.
If you’re curious, keep reading.
I have always been curious about what lives beneath the surface of a person.
As a sensitive child, I could feel people’s energy and often sensed more than they said. In the Vietnamese family I grew up in, feelings were rarely spoken about. Having that extra radar did not always make life easier. I could feel the pain and hardship that remained unspoken, without yet understanding what to do with it.
I also asked questions that felt almost too big for a child.
Why are we here?
What is the meaning of life?
What makes us who we are?
Spirituality never felt unusual to me. It was simply part of how I experienced and understood the world.
Looking back, I believe this began long before me.
One of my Vietnamese great-grandfathers built a Cao Đài temple that still stands today: a place where different religions and spiritual traditions came together. My other great-grandfather was Hakka Chinese. From the stories my mother told me, he helped people through Chinese medicine, but also through words, rituals and practices that could not always be explained.
Healing, it seems, was already part of my roots.
When I became a mother at eighteen and needed help myself, I had no idea where to find it. I carried fear, loneliness and trauma, but professional support was far beyond my reach. I did not have the money for therapy, and the kind of accessible help we know today barely existed.
Then I found Ana Sofia, a small spiritual bookshop in Zwolle.
It became my place to go whenever I needed guidance. The owner always welcomed me with such warmth. I felt safe and seen there. Through the books I found on psychology, spirituality and self-love, I gained knowledge that helped me understand myself — and life — a little better.
When I could not afford to find help elsewhere, those books gave me a way to begin helping myself.
That little shop gave me hope. It showed me how much one warm and welcoming place can mean in someone’s life.
It was only recently, while standing inside my own shop, that I suddenly realised:
I had created with SØSOUL the place I had needed when I was young.
I do not believe people should have to wait until they break before they begin caring for their inner world. Healing should not feel strange, shameful or reserved for moments of crisis. Caring for your emotional and inner world should be as normal as going to the gym to care for your body.
SØSOUL brings together everything that has shaped me: my Vietnamese and Chinese roots, spirituality, ancient traditions, modern methods and my own journey of healing and self-discovery.
It is not tied to one belief or one way of working. It is a place where you can find knowledge, guidance and different ways to understand yourself more deeply, so you can live with greater awareness, freedom and joy.
Because I do not believe we heal because we are broken.
We heal because our inner world deserves our care.
We heal because we are worthy of joy.
And my wish?
That one day, my daughters and grandchildren will grow up seeing healing as something normal, something as natural as going to the gym.
And maybe, just maybe, they’ll tell their friends:
“My grandma was one of the first in the Netherlands who helped bring this shift.”