Turning sorrow into service: Taiwanese-Filipina expat offers free sound therapy for grieving UAE residents

By 2022, many of the things Tan built her identity around have been changing or disappearing. Businesses she worked hard to establish have been gone. Relationships have drifted apart and her financial and material security have been disrupted. Even the future she has imagined for herself no longer looked certain.

But the deepest loss was not the loss of a business or a relationship. It has been the feeling that she lost herself.

“For years, I had associated so much of my identity with what I could build, achieve,…