A Review: If I Had Your Face
Real happiness will only exist once one learns to harvest it from their current circumstances and mine it out of the ordinary days.
The privilege of taking a shower
Scrubbing my skin and sins, the foamy soap dripping over me, washing it all away. I have found solace in taking long, steamy showers.
"I'm a Thermostat, Not a Thermometer"
A thermometer measures the temperature of the room. A thermostat sets it.
Love the Action or Love the Feeling?
Love the Action or Love the Feeling? There’s a HUGE difference.
Hello, May
A monthly exercise of reflecting on your highlights to train your brain to focus on the positive, assess what no longer serves you, and set intentions for what you want more of.
A Review of Sunshine
A Review: Hello, Sunshine by Laura Dave
Complicated sibling relationships. Revisiting the past is the only way forward. Messy endings.
“Be Obedient”
I thought academia was a space for curiosity, debate, and growth. Then I was told to be obedient.
A reaffirmation for me & everyone who needs to hear this:
Maybe you need to hear this today.
Post Ramadan Reflections
Ramadan is a soul cleanse. Gently reminding us of the privileges we’ve grown used to.
POV: Loving Someone With Unhealed Trauma
Sometimes I catch glimpses of you, the version I know.
When you laugh.
When we smile at each other off guard.
Or when we reminisce.
Sirens & Silence
Your internal sirens go unheard and your panic unnoticed.
Suffocating with a smile.
A Cautionary Tale: The Past Makes You a Mad Man
Every time we revisit our memories, our brain reconstructs them using fragments of the truth. The more we return to the past, the further our version drifts from reality, until what feels vivid is no longer true.
3 Things Men Can Teach Us
Take a sick day like a man. Say no like a man. Walk into rooms like you own them — like a man.
The Dark Side of Female Friendships: Wolfsbane vs. Monets
I approached adulthood with an overgrown innocence that made life both whimsical and dangerous.
I’ve always loved people. There’s nothing that waters my garden more than human connection. To build bridges, to let people in, and to be let in. I believed people. I trusted their words. I wholeheartedly felt that everyone I encountered was good and wanted to spread goodness.
Until I was scorned. Until I no longer saw new people as exciting opportunities to grow, but as warning signs. Until I lost confidence not only in the human race, but in my own ability to judge and assess situations. Do you know how terrifying, how debilitating it is to lose confidence in that? It was a loss of independence. I no longer felt safe, or able to keep myself safe. I clung to those who withstood the test of time and shut everyone else out.
Why?
Because I encountered both wolfsbane and Monets.
LUCKY
Today, I want to crush the lemons whole, let the sourness seep between my fingers, and drip onto the whole world.
But then, in the midst of the congestion in my mind and on the road, I saw you across the street.
Everything stopped. All the thoughts fluttering angrily around me dropped dead. A flock of birds had gone down in a blink.