ABOUT Me
Dr. Anh Nguyen (Doctor Stik)
M.D. Neurosurgeon · Author of 4 Books · Former Director, IPPN · Applied Numerologist · Buddhist Practitioner
I am Dr. Anh Nguyen. A neurosurgeon. A published author. And the person behind Doctor Stik.
My whole career has been about one question: why do people keep suffering the same way, even when they know better, even when they are genuinely trying to change?
To answer that question, I explored different directions at the same time. Medicine gave me one lens. Neuroscience gave me another. Psychology, Buddhist practice, long conversations with patients, monks, and even strangers opened up even more diverse and unexpected perspectives.
Most people tend to choose one framework. I never could. Because in my experience, none of them feels complete on its own, each one reveals a part of the truth, but not the whole picture.
And all along, quietly and privately, I was also practicing numerology.
And here is the thing I kept noticing. As a neurosurgeon, I spent years studying how the brain actually works. How it forms patterns. How it keeps repeating the same responses even when the conscious mind wants something different. How perception shapes what we experience as real. That is rigorous science. Measurable. Explainable. This journey was well captured in my half-novel/half-selfhelp book “Madness and Masterpiece”.
But I also kept encountering things that science alone could not fully explain — the intuitive knowing that appears before logical thought, and the way people seem to be born with certain traits and habits that stay with them throughout life. Different fields describe this in different ways: in psychology, Carl Jung called them archetypes; personality psychology offers various trait models; Buddhism speaks of karma and conditioning; and in my own work, I relate most closely to numerology and the symbolic meaning of numbers. Across cultures and disciplines, we keep pointing to the same deeper patterns, just in different languages.
Numerology, for me, was always a bridge between those two worlds. Not a replacement for science. Not a rejection of it. A complement. A way of mapping what the clinical frameworks describe in psychological terms, but through a different and often more personal language.
I know that is not a conventional position for a neurosurgeon to take. But I have never been very good at choosing between things that both turn out to be true.
Along the way, numerology gradually and fascinatingly changed how I worked with people.
I started noticing that patients who had a strong 7 in their core numbers almost always needed me to give them a lot of information before they felt safe enough to open up. They do not prioritize warmth or reassurance but they instead need depth and substance. Once they had enough to think with, the trust would come.
Others with a Life Path 4 needed everything laid out in a clear and logical sequence. If I skipped ahead or gave them a conclusion without showing my reasoning step by step, they would quietly shut down.
And then there were people, certain combinations I started recognising, who did not need logic at all. What they needed first was to feel genuinely seen and understood. The information could come later, once the nervous system settled.
The same thing happened with colleagues, with difficult workplace conversations, in moments where a perfectly sensible approach kept not working and I could not understand why. Looking at the numbers often showed me what I had missed. Not something wrong with the person, but the way they were naturally wired to receive trust and connection. Once I understood that, I feel I can handle situations much easier. I never spoke about this publicly. It was just part of how I worked, privately, for years.
So why am I talking about it now?
Because I kept thinking about all the people I could not reach in a consulting room. The person lying awake at 2am trying to understand why they keep arriving at the same painful place. The parent who wants to understand their child better. The professional who is doing everything right and still feels misaligned. The person who has tried therapy, read every self-help book, and still feels like something essential about how they are wired has never been clearly named.
A numerology report is not a diagnosis. It is not therapy. What it is, at its best, is a very precise mirror. One that shows you the shape of your patterns, the tensions in your chart, the timing of where you are right now, in language that feels personal rather than clinical. And when you combine that with a genuine understanding of how the brain works, what you get is something different from what most people have encountered before.
That is what I am trying to offer. The clinical rigour of a neurosurgeon and the depth of someone who has sat with ancient wisdom for a long time. Together. Because I genuinely believe that is how people actually change.
Everything I do, across all of it, comes back to the same 3R Principle.
- Release what no longer belongs to you.
- Return to who you truly are.
- Reside in the life that feels like home.
The Life Code Report is the most practical tool I have built for beginning that first step. Because before you can release what is not yours, you need to actually see what it is. Your numbers help you do that. In 120 pages, through your specific chart, written with the same care I have brought to everything else.
If you are here, I want this space to feel like somewhere safe to land.
You do not need to be perfect.
You do not need to impress anyone.
You do not need to carry every role alone.
You can finally exhale.
Thank you for being here and for allowing me to walk beside you, gently, as you find your way back to yourself.
With care,
Dr. Anh Nguyen (Doctor Stik), M.D.
How This Helps You at Every Stage of Life
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Book Collection
My Books
Four works at the intersection of science, psychology and ancient wisdom
Self-help Book
Release. Return. Reside. - The 3R Principle
A practical guide for people trapped in cycles of over-functioning, people-pleasing, and quiet exhaustion. Built around the 3R Principle. For anyone who is tired of carrying what was never theirs to hold in the first place.
Self-help Book
Madness or Masterpiece
A book I wrote as a neurosurgeon wondering about something that kept puzzling me: the same brain mechanisms behind serious mental illness also show up quietly in ordinary anxiety, overthinking, and disconnection. The gap between the sane and the unwell is smaller than most of us think. This book explores that through three characters and their conversations. It does not offer answers. It offers a different way of seeing.
Self-help Book
The Secret Language of Life (Vietnamese)
A self-help book on emotional clarity and inner understanding. Practical tools for people who want to live with more honesty, less performance, and a quieter kind of confidence. Beloved by Vietnamese readers.
Numerology Book
The Numerology Doctor (Vietnamese)
The book that established Doctor Stik in Vietnam. A clinical approach to numerology as a tool for self-understanding, written for Vietnamese readers seeking a bridge between ancient wisdom and modern life.
Coloring Book
Mindful Coloring books (Stiko Corner)
And then there are the coloring books, which live under a separate little brand called Stiko Corner. Those are simply for rest. For slowing down. For giving the mind a break from all the understanding and just letting it breathe for a while.
Four+ books. Two languages. One question: why do we keep repeating what is not working, and how do we finally stop?
For your better and happier self
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Whether you start with a book, a report, or simply by following along, everything here is designed to help you understand yourself more clearly and carry less of what was never yours to carry.
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