I have grieved many times. When I was younger, I wasn’t even aware of it. That put me in a position where my grief would come out through toxic patterns. Only as I got older and went to therapy that I learned about grief and the stages of it. And…

Fifteen days ago, I decided I would take a break from my career, give myself the space to figure out where I want to be headed next. After eleven years of working corporate jobs, I started working as a teacher. I did it for three years. I had always yearned…

Reframing Anger When we were children, we all experienced traumatising moments. I like Dr Gabor Mate’s definition of trauma : it’s not the event but what went on internally as a response to the event. Coping mechanisms developed as response to traumatising childhood events become default responses. They become our…

it’s unfair that some people have easy lives — big, happy families, healthy parents, etc, and there’s us, the children of divorce, the parentless children, those who’ve had to deal with their parents’ mental illness, those who suffered abuse… I know many heart wrenching stories, including my own. Our parents…

I The exercise Put the laptop away. Check. Set the timer for 10 minutes. Check. Put the phone away. Check. Sit with myself for ten minutes. Observe. Leaves move with the breeze, noise from neighbours, some birds — the city buzzing. Thoughts Ohh I am gonna write about this Body I am holding…

Man, I love waking up really early before the world starts its daily murmur and just bask in the silence ( and my neighbour snoring upstairs, damn these thin walls!) Today I woke up at 6:30. No alarm. …