In a previous post, I spoke about the emotional ways to deal with life’s various setbacks; the end of a relationship, the end of a job, or having to end residence in a country you always called home. Today I want to delve a little bit deeper into the last…

I recently went through really bad heartbreak when the person I love betrayed my trust in a way I never imagined possible, and as a person who also went through surgery just a few months back, I never thought that the impact of the emotional fallout would be or could…

Often times, we think that if we have all the knowledge at hand related to a decision, it’d be easy to make an informed decision. But this assumes that we are rational linear thinkers who will use logic to reach the most optimized solution to problems. We often take for…

The other day, I picked up my journal from 2013 and started reading the words bleeding on the page. My first reaction was, “Wow. That girl really needed therapy.” My anxiety spirals were all over the page, ruminations repeated over and over again, anger and resentment carried over unresolved problems…

I know it’s been months since I… -Replied properly to messages and calls. -Posted anything here. -Gone out for a social event. I’ve been single-mindedly focusing on my health. And when that is your primary focus, you don’t need to be an expert on the first law of thermodynamics to…

Meet The Aunty — she’s the embodiment of the collective voice of society. When people try to deter you from doing something by using the phrases, “What will people say?” or “Log Kya Kahenge?” they are actually referring to The Aunty. She’s judgmental. She’s well-connected. News reaches her when someone…

A couple of days ago, I passed by Dubai Airport as I was transiting from another country to Kenya. I couldn’t help but think, “For 30 years, this used to be the airport I’d land in when I was headed ‘home’.” Though returning to Kenya for good eventually worked out…

“You are missing 50 % of your life.” That was how the book, Peak Mind, started, and from that page on, I was hooked. The book discusses how attention solves one of the brain’s biggest problems: how to deal with the constant flow of information from the environment. Attention is…

The response in my DM from last week’s post was overwhelming, which shows that I struck a chord. Riding on that wave, today I want to answer a common question on the topic. “How do you — practically — deal with society’s expectations?” 1. (Physically and emotionally) remove yourself from the toxic environment. When I came back to Kenya for…