Serena Choo

This is the home of Serena Choo’s books and reflections.

They’re written for those moments when striving grows tired…

when you’ve tried to quiet your mind, fix what feels stuck, and make sense of what you’re feeling…
and still sense there must be an easier way to live and to thrive.

The work here doesn’t offer another system, method, or mindset.
It invites a different perspective — one that begins to soften the cycle of overthinking, effort and self-doubt.

You don’t need to arrive with certainty.
Only with a little willingness to look in a new direction.

If you’re here because something feels missing,
or because you feel there is more than the life you’ve been managing in your head,
you’re in the right place.

You’re welcome exactly as you are.

Featured Books

Some readers arrive through story.
Others through something more practical.
Many find themselves moving between the two. Others discover they need both.

The Monkey and the Way of Zen

A gentle, Zen-inspired story for those who overthink and feel stressed, about a restless mind learning to settle — not through effort, but through seeing.

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Letting Go of Imposter Syndrome

A grounded exploration of confidence and self-trust, and the quiet freedom that comes from no longer needing to prove or protect who you are.

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The Work

The work here takes shape in two main ways. Not separate paths, but different doorways to the same question:
Is there an easier way to live with what we think and feel?

Zen & Consciousness Stories

These are stories and reflections about a restless mind learning to settle, and about finding calm, clarity, and inner freedom in everyday life — often through metaphor, humour, and quiet moments of recognition. They include The Monkey books, seen through the lens of perspective and remembering.They aren’t meant to teach or explain. They’re meant to be lived with, and felt… experienced.

Psychological Clarity & Inner Confidence

This work is more grounded and direct, for those navigating self-doubt, overthinking, and imposter syndrome — without turning life into another self-improvement project. It includes Letting Go of Imposter Syndrome, which explores confidence not as something to build,
but as something already present beneath years of self-doubt and learned conditioning.

Sometimes, the smallest shift in perspective changes everything.

About the Author

Serena Choo is the author of Letting Go of Imposter Syndrome and The Monkey and the Way of Zen.

Her work grew from a long search for a gentler way to meet life — one that didn’t require constant striving, fixing, or becoming someone else.

Before writing, Serena worked in finance and investment banking, and later spent more than 25 years as an executive and personal transformation coach, supporting people through self-doubt, change, and the quiet pressures of professional life. Along the way, she gathered many tools and trainings — and just as importantly, lived the questions she now writes about.

Over time, this understanding moved beyond ideas and into lived awareness, shaping the way she now writes and works.

She grappled with imposter syndrome herself and a restless, overthinking mind, for many years. What finally brought relief wasn’t another technique, but a shift in perspective, a return to something simpler and more authentic beneath old patterns of conditioning.

Today, Serena writes stories and reflections that invite the same recognition in others, through grounded insight, gentle humour, and everyday moments of clarity.

What she most hopes for those drawn to her work is not improvement, but freedom: the ease that comes from reconnecting with one’s true, authentic self and meeting life with less effort and more trust.