story
My
Once Upon a Time
I was born on September 20th, 2002 at 1:35 AM, in Ivry-sur-Seine, France,
to a French father and Vietnamese Mother.
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My parents called me Trúc Hà, a name my maternal grandfather had come up with, which translates to “Little Bamboo By The River”.
A name I had a difficult relationship with growing up because it was deemed difficult to pronounce,
a name I had to learn to embrace,
one that i have now built my entire life mission around.
Growing up, I
was hypersensitive & curious
I loved learning, reading and writing stories. I was attuned to people’s emotions and energy.
My minerals/crystals collection started when I was seven. I wrote my first book at thirteen.
was wounded & lonely
I was bullied and isolated throughout my childhood for being different and good at school.
I had few friends and struggled to relate to my peers.
was lost & numb
I didn’t know what i wanted to do or who to become but was vehemently against being unhappy like my parents were.
I wanted to find my path, badly.
2022
The year everything shifted
The year I turned 20 was an eventful year to say the least.
I had gone to therapy for the first time in 2021 and stopped because i was doing okay. I still felt unsure of what was in the cards for me but no longer was obsessed with urgently figuring it out.
I started getting interested in fashion and figuring out my personal style. I met my best friend in university and was more confident, more at peace than i had ever been since i was 4.
This, is when I learned about RTT
Back then, I used to consume a lot of self-development content and ended up watching a podcast featuring Marisa Peer, the founder of RTT.
I was hooked, immediately.
i had no reason to look into hypnotherapy, which I had not known even existed, because I was studying applied linguistics to become an English teacher.
But for some unknown reason, I checked it out and felt this tremendous urge to learn it. I ignored it - for months - only to bite early august and be accepted into Marisa Peer’s school later that month.
Two months later, I ended up desperately needing the skills I had just started learning because of a family situation that went from bad to worse in a weekend.
I do not mean it lightly when I say this:
learning RTT when I did saved my mom and I’s life.
Becoming Bamboo
was not immediate.
3 Years in the Making
I started a Master’s Degree (MA TESOL) and became a contractual teacher at the same time.
It was supposed to be an exception, a quick detour before getting back on track.
It was not.
I paused my MA to work as a contractual teacher for a second year.
I tried making it to the end of the year. I could not. I knew I was in the wrong path, I felt it.
I ended up burning out, badly.
I learned web design when i was at my lowest, for something to do.
I then started Becoming Bamboo on YouTube, slowly figuring what it was that I could do and who I wanted to help.
This is when crystals called my name and I learned lithotherapy.
Becoming Bamboo was not just born,
it was grown.
So, who is Bamboo?
I am your Shadow Healer
Hypnotherapist & Lithotherapist
“I help you read the patterns in your own story, release what has been holding you back, what has kept you feeling stuck, disconnected, and exhausted from holding everything together so that you can become who you have always known you could be.”
