For years, I struggled with delegating tasks. I would always say to myself, “Nobody will do it the way I want it, so I’d rather do it myself.” And sure enough, I was always feeling exhausted and overwhelmed at the end of the day. Between work, family, and trying to “improve myself,” I found myself […]
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For the longest time, I believed forgiveness was something I gave to other people. Something they had to earn. I didn’t realize that holding on to anger was quietly stealing from me, piece by piece. There was someone I thought I had “moved on” from, but every time their name came up, I felt that
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I still remember that evening clearly. I had ticked off every single item on my to-do list: work tasks, errands, and my evening routine. By every measure, it had been a productive day. But as I lay in bed, something felt off. There was a quiet hollowness sitting in my chest that no completed task
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There is a version of you that existed before the roles took over. Before you became someone’s wife and someone’s mother. Before the expectations settled on your shoulders. That version of you had dreams. Preferences. A quiet knowing about what made her feel alive. And then, somewhere between showing up for everyone else and keeping
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I didn’t fall in love with reading because a teacher told me to. It happened while watching my dad every morning reading the newspapers. My dad was an avid reader of the daily papers. He had his favourites: The Punch. The Tribune. The Guardian. My mum would pick them up from the vendors when they
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The Story We Don’t Like to Tell We’ve all been there — that moment when someone tells us a truth we don’t want to hear. It stings. So instead of listening, we defend, deflect, or disappear. We become selective about what we want to hear because the truth can hurt. When a relationship falls
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There are conversations that mothers should be having about their relationships with their children. I remember one I had with a friend over lunch. She told me she felt like she was slowly losing her child, not to anything dramatic, just the quiet, creeping feeling that her child was drifting somewhere she could not reach.
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Every day, we wake up to heartbreaking news — violence, loss, injustice, and indifference. We scroll past people’s pain as though it’s background noise. Somewhere along the way, we began to see empathy as weakness, compassion as foolishness, and kindness as naivety. Yet, empathy — the ability to understand and share another person’s feelings —
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When was the last time you sat by yourself—no phone, no music, no distractions? Just you and your thoughts. Lately, I’ve been doing a lot of soul-searching and realizing how rarely I spend time alone with myself. There’s always something buzzing in the background—music, conversations, notifications, or my children needing my attention. The noise
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I still remember the day my sister and I burnt dinner. We were supposed to be cooking, but a game stole our attention, and by the time we noticed, smoke had filled the kitchen. What are we going to do my sister asked. We had been warned countless times about getting distracted while doing any
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