The Heart After Three

When Yennie imagined settling down with marriage and children, she thought it would bring peace and a quiet kind of happiness. But after her son was born, the reality felt different. Left without space for herself, and with a life that suddenly seemed to revolve entirely around the child she loved, she couldn’t breathe. There was no “me” time, no space to think or to be. Everyone around her encouraged her to focus on her baby, but that focus slowly became all she had.

Far from family and friends, she had moved to New York to be with her husband. She was in a city full of people, but entirely alone. There were no relatives nearby, no familiar faces — just her, her husband, and her newborn. For someone who had been fiercely independent since fifteen, living on her own while her parents and older brothers were overseas, the sudden isolation and loss of identity felt crushing. “I felt like I hit the bottom of my life,” she later said, “but at the same time, a little being needed me.”

In that space between exhaustion and love, she began to wonder: What could she build — not just for her family, but for herself? That question became the seed of something new. Together, she and her husband began to talk about creating a business that would allow them to work from home.

At first, it was meant to just be an online shop. A small e-commerce business that sold skincare and wellness products, giving them time to care for their son. But the idea grew. They opened a small spa to showcase their products, never expecting that people would fall in love with the spa itself.

Guests who visited told them they had never experienced anything like it before — the care, the attention, the feeling of being seen. The spa that had started as a practical idea became a place where people could feel cared for, seen, and beautiful again.

From the lowest point of her life, Yennie found a new purpose — one that combined her instinct to nurture with her drive to create. The spa that was born from struggle became a reflection of her heart: gentle, patient, and full of quiet strength.