Take away a person’s creativity and you fracture a part of their soul.
Take away a person’s creativity and you fracture a part of their soul. This is my opinion based on my own experience with toxic relationships and from what I have seen from relationships around me. If you have ever been in a toxic relationship, do you notice that the first the aggressor in the relationship tries to ...
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Trusting myself
Last weekend I went dress shopping with my friends and ended up buying a dress at the spot. And my friends were shocked of how decisive I was. The reality is that is my essence, this is who I always was since I was a kid. Lets take this dress as an example. I don’t look over every single detail of how the finish ...
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Appreciating my body
Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. I might not be everyone cup of tea, and people might say or insinuate that I am not beautiful enough just because of how I look now or because I don’t fit their standards of beauty, and that’s okay.The reality is I love my body it protected through years of ups and downs. All the ...
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Grieving the choices we decide to change
Most of us start our adult lives planning how it should turn out. We go study/work based on what we initially thought was what we wanted. Then you notice a shift whether it’s from the start or down the line; what you chose doesn’t bring you that feeling of fulfillment, excitement and joy. But you live ...
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Unpopular opinion: You don’t have to forgive others to heal and move on.
This topic came up in a discussion with a friend, we talked about how society, religion, and culture has taught us that we cannot heal without forgiving others. I have been a culprit in this too. Sometimes the hurt and harm is too painful to be forgiven, but we try over and over again to forgive and we get stuck in ...
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Affirmation of the day:
Peace is not the same as justice, even though peace is a beautiful concept, it can be used by oppressors to control their victims. On a personal level, if you were in an abusive relationship (whatever the relationship might be) before you would know that being quiet to keep the peace was the motto that sadly ...
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Dates with myself
Going out on dates with myself is not something new for me. Usually the dates I go to are coffee dates, small events where I do something or learn something, but last night, I went to a biggest one yet all by myself. I’m not going to lie I felt self-conscious about it, thought of cancelling it and asking for a ...
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