Ms. Lan Thanh

Ms. Lan Thanh Transformational Coach / Founder of Sentuary / Author of Life of a Lotus / Creator of The Lotus Way

Last year I submitted a story. It didn’t get selected. I was disappointed, but I kept writing, and this year I finished ...
06/08/2026

Last year I submitted a story. It didn’t get selected. I was disappointed, but I kept writing, and this year I finished my memoir.

Craft&Release became our thing. Mine and Ella’s. A mother-daughter date we’d look forward to, sitting side by side watching people get brave on that stage.

One night she looked at me and said, “Mommy, you should submit your stories.” And I said, “You’re right. Watch. One day you’re gonna see Mommy up there.”

The theme this year was fear. I’d just spent months writing my way through mine. So I submitted again, scared and all.

Then, I got this email.

She gets to see it now. She gets to know that the thing you want doesn’t always come the first time, and that’s not a reason to stop. You keep going.

Thank you, , for this stage, and for building a place where I get to come back and try again.

I have a professional book cover designer, but I was curious about the creative process, so I decided to play with AI.Wh...
05/02/2026

I have a professional book cover designer, but I was curious about the creative process, so I decided to play with AI.

What do you like better, option A (mustard) or B (green) or C (neither)?

04/23/2026

Beautiful day. Beautiful lesson.

I’m not going to lie, the old me would’ve had something to say after hitting that pavement. But today I got up, dusted off, and left her with something to think about instead.

Accidents happen. What matters is how you show up after.

Has a moment ever caught you off guard and surprised you with your own reaction?

Tell me below.

04/11/2026

I filmed this thinking it was going to be a gratitude post.

Me and Ella, walking up a mountain, laughing, present, alive in a way I don’t always let myself be. I was recording myself saying how grateful I was. How good it felt to just stop and show up for her.

Then she and her friends decided to take a different trail.

I said yes. I told them I’d meet them on the other side.
Three hours later it was dark. Search and rescue were on that mountain with flashlights looking for my daughter.
The trail they took had been officially closed for a year. No visible sign. No barrier. It just looked like a path you could walk. So they walked it.
Further and further in until the light ran out and they had no choice but to call for help.

They were safe. Not a scratch.
But I stood at that trailhead in the pitch black thinking about what the officer said.
“That trail’s been closed for a long time.”

It looked like a path. It felt like a path. Everyone before them had probably walked some version of it.

I’m not a bad mother for saying yes.

She’s not a bad kid for walking it.

We just didn’t know it was closed.

Nobody told us. It looked like the way through.

Sound familiar?
Tell me one thing you kept walking toward because it looked like it was supposed to be there for you.

03/06/2026

I’m going back to the hospital.
The same symptoms. The same fear that crawled up my spine the last time, before the word “cancer” changed everything.

And the good girl in me is doing what she always does. Holding it together. Performing okay.
But I won’t pretend I’m not scared. I am.

What I’ve learned is that fear needs a story to survive. It needs you in the future, catastrophizing, running worst case scenarios at 2am. The moment you come back to right now, this breath, this room, this second, you starve it.
There is always something to anchor to. The warmth of your coffee. Your feet on the floor. The fact that right now you are still here and still whole.

Whatever is threatening to swallow you right now, come back to now. Not because it fixes anything. Because it keeps you standing while life does what life does.

And the woman who learns to stay present in the fire doesn’t just survive it.

She comes out knowing exactly how unbreakable she actually is.

I wrote a book about the things that were supposed to destroy me.The trauma. The cancer. The conditioning that taught me...
02/28/2026

I wrote a book about the things that were supposed to destroy me.

The trauma. The cancer. The conditioning that taught me to shrink, stay quiet, and be “good” while my life burned down around me.

This book is the story of what happened when I stopped performing survival and started actually living.

But I need your help with something.

I’ve narrowed the title down to 3 options and I want YOU to choose. Because this book isn’t just mine. It’s for every woman who was told the mess she came from was something to hide instead of something that built her.
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02/22/2026

Breaking Good Girl conditioning doesn’t happen in one dramatic moment.

It happens in small, quiet victories.

The pause before you say yes.
The awareness after you over-function.
The moment you notice your body didn’t agree.

That’s how neural pathways change.

Not through shame.
Through repetition.

Every time you catch yourself and choose differently, you’re building Whole Woman energy.

Not perfect.
Not louder.
More honest.

If you’re unlearning the pattern too, follow me. We’re going deeper into this.

What’s one Good Girl habit you caught this week?

02/22/2026

Breaking Good Girl conditioning doesn’t happen in one dramatic moment.

It happens in small, quiet victories.

The pause before you say yes.
The awareness after you over-function.
The moment you notice your body didn’t agree.

That’s how neural pathways change.

Not through shame.
Through repetition.

Every time you catch yourself and choose differently, you’re building Whole Woman energy.

Not perfect.
Not louder.
More honest.

If you’re unlearning the pattern too, follow me. We’re going deeper into this.

“You’re too much. You’re not enough. And somehow, impossibly, you’re both at the same time. That’s not a you problem. Th...
02/20/2026

“You’re too much. You’re not enough. And somehow, impossibly, you’re both at the same time. That’s not a you problem. That’s the trap.”

Too loud in one room. Too quiet in another.

Too emotional at work. Too closed off at home.

Too ambitious for him. Not driven enough for yourself.

Too much. Not enough. Too much. Not enough.

And the maddening part? You have spent years trying to find the balance between the two. Twisting, adjusting, shrinking, performing. Convinced that if you could just get it right, everything would click into place.

But nobody gets it right. Because the balance doesn’t exist.

That tightrope was never meant to be walked. It was meant to keep you too busy trying not to fall to notice that your power was being quietly drained in the process.
Because when you’re that compressed, that contorted between too much and not enough, you lose your full range. You lose the ability to feel everything, express everything, and see clearly what is actually happening around you.

In any room. In any relationship. In any dynamic.

And a woman who can’t see clearly? She’s easy to manipulate. Easy to gaslight. Easy to keep small.

Breaking good girl conditioning isn’t about finding the balance.
It’s about burning the tightrope down entirely.

Follow. Because that’s exactly what we’re doing here.

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