
"Kelly Soup"
a reserved soul with passion in health and wellness
INFJ - Mother - Empath
Background
Kelly, a mother of two children aged 13 and 10, is a truly blessed soul. Her life is rich with experiences of sickness and hardships, from which she learns and grows. She embraces life challenges, integrating every lessons into her practice, achieving a mindful and holistic approach to life.
Practicing acupuncture and traditional chinese medicine is not just a job. It’s her passion and the lifestyle she lives. She practices what she preaches.
Kelly was born with biliary atresia, leading to lifelong liver cirrhosis and cholangitis. She’s living with a ticking timed-bomb inside her. In high school throughout to university, she's battled through foggy brain, itchiness, extreme fatigue, depression, constipation, insomnia, digestive issues, weight gain, sudden weight loss, and many more. Gradually, through her exploration into holistic and unconventional knowledge, she stood strong as though her life was perfect, as if everything were normal. She manages to live a life free of symptoms despite having serious liver problems. She’s been receiving care from UHN Liver Clinic since 2003 but has never been on medications. Her cholangitis puts her on a high risk of cancer, cholangiocarcinoma, which has once been located but dissipated. Chronic inflammation damages the cells and change polarity of cells, leading to mutations, which often turn into cancer under stress. From which, Kelly learns how to live in harmony with internal chronic inflammation.
Kelly is a registered acupuncturist and registered traditional chinese medicine practitioner (chinese medicine herbalist), and a qualifying hypnotist. Kelly practices yoga, aerial yoga, meditation, chakra self healing, and vibrational frequency healing. Kelly is inspired by a wide range of new age and spiritual sanctuary.
It’s all about energy healing and mindfulness.
Connecting the dots and developing her own theory to Acupuncture and Energy Healing
Chinese medicine theory is only a theory. The application of such theory goes beyond the books. Chinese medicine can provide you insights on connecting the dots on how and why you're experiencing what you're experiencing. Cause-and-effect can be understood holistically from the cyclical nature of change and transformation in the universe to microscopic level in the human body.
Kelly believes that holistic health begins with understanding the deep-seated connection between the mind, body, and soul (mental health). Our thoughts, emotions, physical health, lifestyle, and spiritual well-being are not isolated elements; they are deeply intertwined, each influencing and being influenced by the others. These forms of energy are connected.
Common Questions:
Why Acupuncture and TCM?
Actually, I really don’t know where to begin. It started with my earlier experience with my liver issues—that’s what brought me there in the first place. I wasn’t healthy or well after having my daughter, so I sought out Traditional Chinese Medicine again. I figured that learning holistic theory could help me take better care of myself and my family. And then I realize it's a rabbit hole I’ve dug into....
Special thanks to Toronto Longevity group who came to my home and provided me with Reiki energy work when I was pregnant in 2012. They've broadened my view and experience on energy work.
Why Astrology?
At a very young age, I experienced depression, wondering, “Why me?” Every kid around me was healthy—I have liver cirrhosis. Why me? I grew up as a science kid, pushing away intuitions and anything even slightly superstitious, believing only in concrete, solid science. But I was experiencing a problem that medicines cannot fix. I made it through that stage, crediting my willpower to survive and to stay positive, because a liver transplant wasn’t an option until the rest of my body fell apart.
Fast forward to the years of illness, giving birth to two preemies, and going through a separation—these experiences made me realize that life isn’t just cause-and-effect, though cause-and-effect does play a big role. Why did my children have to endure so many illnesses and surgeries too? I began exploring life patterns, destiny, fate, soul lessons, and more. Astrology has helped me understand how to navigate life without falling into pity, sadness, shame, self-blaming or other negative emotions. While struggling to deal with my daughter's illness, I use meditation to guide my mind into calmness.
Life is life. Play it well, I can still make it right. Eventually that whole body, mind, and soul practice makes sense-- yoga and meditate about life, mind, body, and soul.
Why Hypnosis?
It was an accident—an accident brought together by fate. I was going through family issues and dealing with my daughter’s seizures, and I needed meditation and inner peace to calm my mind. As my meditation skills developed, I started integrating them into my acupuncture sessions with patients, and guiding them to the way I relax my mind.
Incidentally, I began to hear and feel my patients’ subconsciousness. During my stress-relief and anxiety sessions, all of my patients fall lucid-asleep, and many say they feel as though they’ve been taken somewhere. That’s when I realized I had been unintentionally tapping into hypnosis. Then I knew I needed to learn proper methods and deepen my understanding of hypnosis.
Most valuable lessons in life
Liver issues started me on this health awareness journey in grade eleven.
Liver issues had brought me some very eventful pregnancies.
My Kids were born prematurely at 29wk and 30wk.
Child A was born with an issue relating to my medical history. After undergoing a surgery, Child A also lives without gall bladder since infancy like her mother--- me. Child A grows up to be a very beautiful young lady, currently at age 13, with some permanent brain atrophy, ASD, ADHD, seizure, dormant lupus, and will require ongoing specialized care. A is still charmingly cute and wonderful. Child B is a healthy and happy boy. He was born with a perforation in the intestines and resolved.
Through the help in psychotherapy, the failure of my marriage led me to explore my inner child, my childhood wounds, and the story of my loneliness and fear. My marriage ultimately taught me to stop abandoning myself for love and to recognize, honor, and protect my own worth.
Each little thing makes my journey more knowledgeable, more insightful, and more mindful. How I have become who I am today?
I just go with the flow.
I am not a fighter. I don't fight life.


Education.
Undergrad bacheolor in Linguistics - York University - (neurolinguistics, children's discourse, language aquisitions in relation to brain functions) - set the basis of my knowledge of the brain, innateness of the common knowledge ingrained in our DNA, the science approach
Advanced Acupuncture Diploma (Ontario) - chinese medicine and meridian theories, holistic nature - the wonders of the body, fusing traditional and holistic methods with science
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Kelly is Chair for the Acupuncture Program Advisory Committee in Georgian College (2023-2026), the place where her holistic studies began. Georgian College is a public funded college situated in Barrie, Simcoe County of Ontario.
Doula Canada - at the time of pandemic, studied obstetric to understand women bodies and childbirth, before and after giving birth care; nutritions and vitamins
Chinese Medicine Practitioner Diploma (Ontario) - builds onto the understanding of how body works with herbal medicines
Doctor of Oriental Medicine (USA) - integrates western and eastern medicines - it isn't magic -- it’s an area of discovery that science just hasn’t been able to prove yet. Studied East Meets West Medicines and Food, blending science + traditional beliefs.
Professional Astrology Reader - the wonders of synchronicity, life, fate, and fortune in hellenistic astrology
Yoga Instructor - the body is in check with the mind - yoga, qigong, taichi, stretching, teaches the mind to be in line with the body. we can control our body, our cells, our energy through our minds
NGH (Qualifying) Certified Hypnotist (USA) - exploration of the minds, consciousness, subconscious, and past lives












