She entered our life in my mid-teens, and I wouldn’t know it at the time, but she would later become a vital part of my healing journey. Growing up, we had massive gatherings with families from various cultures. She’s from Ethiopia, and honestly, my mouth still waters at the thought…

I had this epiphany where I saw my life as an old lady looking back with complete regret. I felt this instant dread come over me. Up until that point I had chased after everything I had wanted and there was nowhere to go from there. My mountain top had…

“Life has been one big blur,” he told me as he reflected on the past decade. — He had achieved so much in his time yet felt a deep sense of dissatisfaction and dissociation. I couldn’t have explained it better myself — a blur, the perfect description of life at full speed with minimal memory of the days gone by. One of my motivations to slow down…

And trust it. — Learning the voice of our spirit, our intuition, is an important practice so that we when it speaks, we know to trust it. …

Journaling is very therapeutic. — My first ever diary entry was “I love ____”. I was six years old. I had this cute diary with a padlock and I thought my secret was safe from the world. Until my younger brother cracked open the lock and told my crush. If it wasn’t for that mortifying…

She criticises that woman — the woman who is free, kind to herself and loves to laugh. — Iwrote out my aspirations on the weekend and created this massive dream vision board. Oh yes, I got caught up in the end-of-year craziness! …

Actually, don’t. Don’t deal with anxiety. — Because sometimes anxiety is not meant to be something we need to “fix” — well, not with our anxious mind anyways. It may be our body’s and mind’s way of communicating with us that we need to shake it up, shake it off, and lighten the load. And trying to…

I often hear people say they find it difficult to forgive because it feels like we’re letting someone off the hook. — We think of forgiveness as something we grant another person when they wrong us. Sometimes though, we’re not ready to extend forgiveness to someone but we still suffer. Time lapses, life goes on, and we may think “we’re over it.” But there is more to forgiveness. …

As an empath, you may be able to sense people’s pain and suffering without them telling you anything. — You can sense things before they happen — a shift in energy, a facial expression, the tone of voice. You have a feeling that something is coming. You always felt that you are highly intuitive. You can be highly attuned to others and take on people’s problems in an endeavour…