Katie Wee achieved everything she thought would make her happy: captaining UCLA's dance team, landing a TV series role, magazine covers, marriage. None of it filled the void. She spent years processing hidden trauma before finding what actually worked.
It was like the perfectionism that was already sort of part of my nature became overpowering. And, um, I just tried to be really perfect. I became the captain of the UCLA dance team. I was on TV every week. I was on magazine covers, became an actress. I was on TV. And I thought all these accomplishments would make me feel happy, that if I could make my life look really happy on the outside, I would start to feel happy on the inside. But really, my inner state was just like I was pretending all the time, just pretending to be happy. And at a certain point, I got kind of all the things that were on my vision board. I was a series regular on TV. I was in every episode episode of this show, going to set every day. I was married. I had all the things I thought I wanted, and I was so unhappy. And it was like a dam just broke within me, and the trauma that I hadn't processed came up, needed to be healed. And I spent some really intense years in a healing journey.
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