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A collection of poems and articles for your reading pleasure.
Coming to Terms with Change
It’s been over a year since we’ve been trying to adapt to a strong reality that has been enforced on us, the COVID-19 situation. So many things have changed. So many losses have changed the lives of people forever. Although we’ve been hearing a lot about “acceptance”,...
How to Silence Our Inner Critic and Build a Healthier Voice
Self-sabotage comes in different forms and sometimes in very subtle ways such as self-criticism. That inner voice, that you have accustomed yourself to and which you believe is an important part of your growth and development, is exactly what’s keeping you from being...
Mind-Auto Destruction
How would you know if you are suffering from an autoimmune disease? An autoimmune disease is when your immune system attacks healthy cells in your body by mistake. It can attack different organs in your body. It is an immune response caused by systemic inflammation...
Impermanence
I have learned that nothing lasts forever… It took quite some time to acknowledge this, but with the time I needed, I came to realize that nothing really lasts forever. Whether it was a situation, an emotion, some friendships maybe or even a state of mind. I learned...
Coping with Loss and Grief
The other day I was sitting at a Doctor’s Clinic and there were couple of people just standing there waiting to go in. After someone randomly asks me what I do for a living and I answered that I am a psychologist, a woman who was looking away turns her head and asks...
August Blues
There is one kind of pain that we chose to never let go of. It is a pain that grabs you by the heart and infuses a bittersweet venom into its vessels. It never lets you go… Where do I go with this pain?Do I take it in…Do I pull it out? It is a pain that breaks you,...
A Lifeless Life
We live a lifeless life When we forget to love ourselves on the hard days When we lie about how we truly feel towards others and ourselves When we go after money & things instead of love, beauty and art When we enjoy...
Life Inside a Restless Mind
“SUDDENLY it becomes hard to BREATHE!” That’s how it sometimes feels. That’s how it usually starts. An event, a trigger, a vague or precise stimulus, an irrational or oblivious thought, an image, a word, or just nothing at all! That’s when it starts feeling like the...