Meet Brittany.
Long before I had language for any of this, I’ve always had this undeniable relationship with growth. I’ve been able to see growth alongside the growing pains it comes with. At a young age, I felt and heard the unspoken; understand what was being misunderstood; see patterns that kept people stuck; and notice what was living beneath words, behavior, relationships, the ways people moved through the world, and most of all… silence.
I began working at the age of 12, and eventually found my way into Ophthalmology—where my fascination with eyes, vision, seeing, how we see, patterns, possibility, and what lived not only beneath, but behind and beyond that only deepened.
What began with the literal layers of the human eye continued into greater layers of Life.
For more than 15 years in healthcare and leadership, to studying psychology and human behavior, to seeing and researching the patterns that shape how we think, choose, connect, lead, love, and ultimately build our lives–—this is what I do best and love most. People.
As a storyteller at heart, I’ve spent much of my life interested in people.
How we think. How we choose. How we connect. How we lead. How we love. What we fear. What we know. What we ‘take on’ or unconsciously inherit. What we change. And how that directly points to how we build our lives.
For nearly two decades, that curiosity has taken me through healthcare and leadership, psychology and human behavior, humanitarian work, education, organizations, relationships, Spirituality, and of course, my own lived experience.
What may appear to be very different chapters have continued to point me toward the same place: the (whole) human. From ‘messy’, to mystic, to mastery.
My collective work and the entirety of my life holds one driving inquiry:
What’s possible?
I’m not interested in giving people more information, as there is p l e n t y of it.
I’m interested in what happens when we can see something differently. I am interested in simplifying it––and making what’s ‘complex’ more digestible to our systems.
We can reach high, go deep, and wide—with less information and much more intention and precision.
Because how we see matters--and directly informs our lives.
How we see ourselves, another, and… Life?
And what becomes possible when we see something from a slightly different angle?
My philosophy is living a life that’s yours…
and that’s important to me. I care about people’s joy and the lives they live, get to live, or can live.
I do not believe another person's story is meant to become your own.
What I do believe is that it does reflect what’s possible.
I’ve spent much of my life asking questions about what it means to be human. Through Healthcare. Leadership. Psychology. Relationships. Loss. Love. Spirituality. Sex. Pleasure. Travel. Wealth. Silence. Starting over. Beginning again. Building things. Parting from people, places, and things. And writing from inside all of it.
For me, the work has never really been about becoming ‘someone else’. It has always been about the willingness to know and live as yourself. To live a life that’s yours––nothing short of that.
Much of what I believe is possible is now expressed and lived through ARM.
Named after my father, ARM is the award-winning global platform and body of work I founded to explore what it means to be human—and along the way––ARM developed a pulse on its own; a place to explore what becomes possible… when you’re willing to believe.
The journey to a life that’s yours isn’t one story to tell. It’s a full life lived.
Born and raised in New York City, with a Southeast Asian and European-Mediterranean background.
ARM—the company and mission—is named after the King who raised me: my father. His initials, A.R.M.
Descendant of Indigenous Healers from Southeast Asia.
Over 15-years in healthcare and leadership—from Administrative, to clinical, to Healthcare Administration (before the degrees–the degrees were for me), to pioneering LEAN Six Sigma initiatives for a leading health system at the age of 27.
I began studying somatic trauma to understand what was happening within my own nervous system, body, and mind. What began personally led me deeper into the work, eventually becoming a practitioner—and today, that understanding continues to guide the larger body of work within ARM.
I began studying somatic trauma to understand what was happening within my own nervous system, body, heart, and mind. What began personally led me deeper into the work, eventually becoming a practitioner. Along the way, I’ve had the opportunity to learn from and study with leading voices in trauma, nervous-system health, and human behavior, including Peter Levine, Gabor Maté, Deb Dana, and Stephen Porges, among others, as well as train with Shi Heng Yi of the Shaolin Temple.
Today, the collective of my lived experience, professional work, academic study, training, and practice continues to inform the larger body of work within ARM.
My work has since carried me onto stages and into spaces including TEDx, Omega Institute, and RYLA. ARM was named Most Valuable Mission by RealLeaders and featured in RealLeaders magazine, as well as publications as an Author; named an Editor’s Pick by Elephant Journal; named US Ambassador for Peace by UN UPF.
And those are still only pieces of the story.
The little girl in me still gets to dream of what is possible. And the woman I’ve become gets to build it, create it, and move it forward—for us to experience, individually and together.
The journey to a life that I can now call my own isn’t one story to tell. It’s a full life lived and continue living, learning, growing, evolving.
It was my own life and learning to navigate it that led me to…
A life that’s mine, to…
A life that’s yours…
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– A LIFE THAT’S YOURS ISN’T ONE THAT IS COPY AND PASTED – IT’S NOT MEANT TO LOOK LIKE ANYONE ELSE’S. IT IS MEANT TO FEEL LIKE YOUR OWN.
