Self

Ways I’ve hurt my relationships

For a long time in my life I wondered why important relationships (personal and work) in my life tend to implode, or why I tend to feel bullied and I seemed to be in chaos and misery no matter where I was.

Practicing the ability to wait

Last week, I was able to complete two twenty-minute sessions of practicing waiting in silence: a…

What I learned from cultivating self-compassion

When I was just slightly younger, I had this impression that I was someone who was open-minded and I saw the world in shades of grey. I often judged people for being too absolute, too black and white.

Growing older

on loving the process of ageing

It seems like there is an aversion to growing old. Crossing over to one’s 30s would symbolize the loss of youth or people would quip that they are ‘forever 25’, as though there is something ghastly about being older than 29.

My emotional intensity

as a source of pride and shame

I am that person capable of tears when I see two stray dogs running in tandem on a street side by side, when my friends exchange marriage vows, when strangers smile at each other on a busy street, when a street…

Sharing myself like an open book

giving light to my own darkness

Piecing myself together after burnout

The process of finding the root cause and addressing it

I am gradually recovering from a period of burnout — I was still functional but there was a chronic fatigue that wouldn’t go away no matter how much I rested, apathy to things I used…

The courage to be ourselves

why it is important to the world to be who you are

Someone once told me that we have to dress for the job we want to have. I thought: if how I dress is the way you perceive how serious I am about my work, we have a much…

Living the way I want to

the implicit consequences of having a finite life

On living the way I want to

the implicit consequence of having a finite life