Honey

“The first time I entered a classroom to teach, a child cried,” said Honey. Those children she taught under the National Service Training Program could not possibly imagine that the girl in tattered jeans and with black-painted nails then would one day be a Kids’ yoga teacher, much less a life coach for young children.

But in truth, only the image of that girl changed. Even as Honey went through different phases in her life, she has remained faithful to the values she had instilled in herself as a child.

The eldest of three, Honey grew up a go-getter. “I felt like I was born to lead,” she said. “I have always been the leader in the family be it in games, in coming up with crazy ideas. I was the eldest grandchild in my father’s family so I always got what I wanted. Admittedly, I got mad when things didn’t go my way.” Fortunately, her wants and ways of doing things as a child were imagining how they could all have fun.

“The fondest memory I had with my sisters and cousins was when we created our own tv set with a box,” she shared. “Sugar wrote the story, and I drew the artworks. Then we had our cousins sleep over at our home so we could have our movie night. We turned off the lights, turned our fans on full blast – since we didn’t have an air conditioner – and illuminated our box with a flashlight.”

Although she considers she might have been a bully in high school, she was actually against bullying. In fact, she had wanted to become a lawyer so that she could defend people who were abused. She ended up taking BS Psychology in university, intending to proceed to law school.

“My main drive really was to help the people in the community – women who were raped, molested kids, people who could not stand for themselves,” she said.

But in her last year in university, that experience under the NSTP class changed her course in life. “I never back down from a challenge,” she said. “That child crying triggered something in me that made me want to teach children.”