Recently, I have been attending yet another trauma course. One can never know enough about trauma. The course itself is fine. It’s quite challenging, but not challenging enough to get me super motivated. Despite that, the best thing that has come out of it...
All of us have something we wish we would have done differently. Regret, just like any other emotion, is part of the experience of being human, but it is an emotion that is often misunderstood. We tend to shy away from reflecting on our regrets with objectivity, as...
December always makes me feel reflective, and I know I’m not alone in this. Something about this time of year always gives me the urge to reinvent myself. I’ve made a lot of changes in 2021–namely, moving to a new city in a new country. Relocating somewhere where you...
I’m 28 and single. I don’t feel bad about this at all. Weddings make you often think about your own love life, and I’m not immune to this. Being the only bridesmaid without a plus one for the third wedding this year feels like a romantic comedy plot, and I can’t help...
My mother would say I have always been an anxious person. When I was 20 years old, a psychiatrist backed up that claim and I was formally diagnosed with Generalised Anxiety Disorder. I’ve been on antidepressants for the near-decade since that diagnosis. My anxiety is...
Have you ever found yourself agreeing to do things you didn’t really want to do? Going to a party when you just wanted to stay home? Agreeing to a favor you don’t really have the capacity to handle? Eating something you didn’t want because you wanted to be polite? I...
For the past five weeks, I have been away from the place I call home. It has been an incredible experience, but at times, I have found being on the road for this long physically and emotionally draining. The more time I spend, alone with my thoughts, the more I...
I've been thinking a lot about the concept of "home." Until I went to uni, I had the same answer about where home is: New York City, where I was born and raised. But in the ten years since I took that first big leap into university, I've moved around quite a bit. Most...
How can you flourish without trying to constantly fix yourself? On many occasions, I said to myself: I will not let this self-improvement culture make me feel like there’s always something wrong with me. It just feels like a never-ending journey. Can you relate? ...
I thought it was just me. I moved around a lot all my life, I had 4 completely different careers, left my home country in my 20s, never had kids and most of my friends are from different generations. There is no community around me, I don’t belong. But then I...
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