Beautiful inside and out was always my mother's intention.
I was born in Brooklyn, to parents who came here from Hong Kong. My mother, Ling Chan, founded LING in 1976 and became a renowned master celebrity esthetician over four decades. I grew up in it, and at twenty two I joined the family business to work alongside her.
Here is what most people never saw. Behind closed doors, my mother struggled. With her health. With her emotional world. With her sense of self worth. She had built something extraordinary and she could not find that same peace for herself.
I spent years looking for tools that might help her. I trained in Tibetan Buddhist mind practices and traveled to monasteries in India. I studied breathwork. I had a spiritual awakening at a Joe Dispenza retreat that genuinely changed how I understood the mind and energy and how it affects our self identity, emotions and body.
But by the time I had everything I needed, we were running out of time.
That loss never left me, and it became the reason I do this. I was born into a skincare family for a reason, and it was not only to help people look good. Skincare is where you start. The breath is how you come home to yourself and how you can control your state of being.
Patrick Chan
Nervous System Beauty Coach
Son of Ling Chan. CEO of LING New York. Certified SOMA Breathwork instructor. Certified Theta Healer, Divine Channeler, Inspirational Speaker, host of the Nervous System Beauty Coach podcast.
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