About Nanani World

A Space for Reset and Reinvention — Through Emotional Clarity, Structured Rebuilding, and Whole-Self Integration

Rooted in lived experience and guided by professional training, grounded practice, and thoughtful integration.

Our Holistic Wellness Philosophy

Nanani World began as a personal journal during a period of significant transition. What started as a way to process heartbreak, single motherhood, and rebuilding life in a foreign country gradually evolved into something more intentional — a space shaped by reflection, emotional regulation, and lived experience.

Over time, readers from different backgrounds resonated with the work. Today, Nanani World serves as a home for those navigating life transitions, identity shifts, and the internal reset that often precedes reinvention. Through writing, coaching, and thoughtfully integrated wellness practices, this platform bridges personal experience with professional training — offering structured clarity during seasons of change.

1. Lifestyle Medicine

Sustainable growth is supported by daily habits and living conditions that influence both physical and emotional health. Nutrition, sleep, movement, stress regulation, and social connection shape how steady we feel. From a holistic wellness perspective, meaningful change is built into everyday life, through how we live, how we care for our bodies, and how we support long-term balance that helps both our bodies and our emotional lives.

2. Mindfulness as a Way of Living

Mindfulness is a way of relating to your inner world with presence and responsibility. This approach is supported by body–mind practices, including breathwork, to build awareness of emotional and physiological state and support nervous system regulation. With greater inner steadiness, thoughts and emotions can be met with awareness — creating space for choice rather than automatic reaction, in daily life.

3. Integration and Balance

We value balance over perfection, recognizing that growth does not come from optimizing every aspect of life. Rather than separating emotional, physical, or personal challenges into compartments, the focus is on integration and counterbalance — allowing different parts of life to support one another. From this perspective, holistic wellness becomes an ongoing process of alignment shaped by awareness and adjustment.

About Me — Hsin Chen

Writer. Author. Coach. Guiding Reset and Reinvention.

There was a period in my life when everything looked picture-perfect on the surface — marriage, a promising career, a strong network, a life many would consider fortunate. I had achieved what I once believed I wanted.

Yet internally, something felt misaligned. Though surrounded by people, I felt alone and disconnected. I had been moving toward a life shaped by expectation — cultural, relational, inherited — rather than conscious choice.

Motherhood intensified that realization. Postpartum depression, cultural transitions, and the slow unraveling of my marriage made the question unavoidable: Is this truly the life I want to continue living?

The answer did not arrive quickly. It took years to gather the courage to act.

My Reset Journey

Learning to Live With Emotional Clarity, Compassion & Connection

In 2019, I moved to Barcelona with my two young children, carrying both hope and pain. The journey that led me there was not linear. I have lived in eight cities across five countries and four continents — loving, losing, adapting, uprooting, and reinventing myself along the way. Those transitions shaped how I understand change, identity, and resilience.

The relocation was not the beginning of the rupture — it was the visible turning point. Newly arrived in Spain during the pandemic, with no family support and a marriage unraveling, I could no longer outrun what needed my attention.

Through therapy, life coaching, meditation, mindful living, parenting reflection, and lifestyle medicine, I began rebuilding my inner foundation. I learned to release the social masks I had worn across continents, to set boundaries, to trust myself again, and to love without seeking constant validation.

Resetting was not a single decision but a process — confronting old belief systems and gradually reshaping them:

- from a borrowed identity to one consciously chosen
- from unprocessed emotional wounds to emotional accountability
- from people-pleasing to clear boundaries
- from carrying everything alone to asking for support
- from always being “strong” to being honest

Those years were among the hardest — and most transformative — of my life. What once felt like a breakdown slowly became a breakthrough.

From Story to Service — Creating Nanani World

A Home for Emotional Resilience, Mindful Living & Life Reset

I had always wanted to become a writer, yet self-doubt and language insecurity kept that ambition suspended. When life began to unravel, I stopped postponing the questions that mattered. Writing became part of my reset — a way to process, clarify, and rebuild from within.

What began as a personal reckoning gradually evolved into Nanani World.

Nanani World grew from a desire to create:

- a space for those navigating life transitions
- a platform grounded in emotional regulation and steadiness
- a body of work shaped by honesty, resilience, and lived experience
- a resource for intentional living and integrated wellness

What started as my own life reset became the foundation of something larger.

Between 2019 and 2023, I wrote my memoir Venturing Forth, exploring motherhood, divorce, identity shifts, cultural relocation, and reinvention. By late 2024, Nanani World expanded into a bilingual platform with its Traditional Chinese sister site, 姐姐特調, along with a Mandarin podcast — extending this work across languages and cultures.

My Professional Background

Evidence-Based Training

I am an AC-Accredited, Jay Shetty Certified Life Coach, with advanced training in Lifestyle Medicine through Harvard Medical School’s Health & Wellness continuing education program, and have completed Mastery of Breathwork training with Dan Brulé.

My work is informed by an evidence-based understanding of wellbeing, drawing from lifestyle medicine principles that explore how daily habits shape both physical and emotional health. This includes practical focus on nutrition, sleep, movement, stress regulation, social connection, and sustainable behavior change — not as rigid prescriptions, but as supportive foundations for long-term resilience.

Alongside this, my coaching training centers on the emotional and relational aspects of change: building self-awareness, strengthening emotional regulation, working with the nervous system, and developing clarity in decision-making. My breathwork training further supports this work through structured body–mind techniques that enhance nervous system regulation and state awareness. Together, these approaches allow me to support individuals in translating insight into grounded, real-life choices.