I Always Rise
Reading time: 5 minutes To see me, a nearly 60-year-old woman in ill-fitting clothes, no style to my hair, most of my teeth missing, sagging skin, living in a trashy trailer in a trashy trailer park, you might write me off as a nobody, or a failure. But the…
Changed By Faith
Reading time: 6 minutes I find life to be consistently inconsistent. Change is the norm. Look outside your window, take a stroll down the street, you’ll witness that nature is always transitioning. Whether you have extreme or stable seasons, they still experience their own cycles of birth, growth, development,…
Achieve True Transformation By Harnessing Your Inner Power
Reading time: 5 minutes My life has been a series of small but pivotal changes. Some changes were external, bringing encouraging but temporary results. The most lasting changes were those I initiated from within, invisible to anyone on the outside. This taught me that true transformation occurs when you…
From Depression to Optimism
Reading time: 6 minutes How Change Found Me Change found me on the bathroom floor, begging my husband to let me die. I’d done all of the right things. Went to school. Got good grades. Graduated from a university. Landed a steady job with great benefits. I’d even gotten…
Her Tiny Little Fingers Gave Me A New Direction On Life
Reading time: 5 minutes A little over a year ago, I gave birth to the most beautiful little girl I had ever laid eyes on. However, she did not come at the best time. At the time, I was working full-time and completing graduate school full-time as well. And,…
Change, Happiness And Feeling Alive
Reading time: 5 minutes I am walking my son, Lars, to school this morning when it hits. A foreboding magnitude begins to press down on me and the looming feeling of fright is palpable. However, there is nothing I can do about it since I’ve played my own key…
Why Do We Do ALL The Things?
Reading time: 7 minutes It’s odd that this opportunity came along when we are doing our 2019 planning. I say that because up until the change found us in 2016, we had no discernible plans beyond what events pushed and pulled us. We were only reacting to situations in…
Dear Boss, Thank You For Declining My Leave Request
Reading time: 6 minutes Everything has started to become a blur as I try to recall the day I left Malaysia, my life and the rat race I so wanted to be part of. I tried fixing my eyes to the freshly bloomed tulips in front of me but…
From Small Town Girl To Full-Time World Traveller
Reading time: 8 minutes All my life I have dreamed of escaping the small town where I grew up. The world was calling me to go explore it, but circumstances kept me stuck in that small town in Canada for over 30 years. When I was 19, I had…
How My Parents Disowning Me Saved My Life
Reading time: 6 minutes Ever since I was a teenager, I craved change. I wanted to change my identity. I wanted to construct my own life. I wanted to set my own standards and expectations. I wanted to create my own life. I was born into an Indian household….
One Lifelong Dream Fulfilled In A Foreign Country
Reading time: 5 minutes We aspire to possess boundless generosity. We desire a more promising situation. We dream of a better life. We hope to fulfil that one lifelong dream. Achieving them may be taxing at times but believe me when I say it will all be worthwhile. Simply…
Change Is Hard, But With It Comes Opportunity
Reading time: 5 minutes Life comes at you fast and apparently without prior notice or any warning. I never expected my life to make a complete U-turn, but it did in the summer of 2014. I lived and breathed politics during my college years. The purpose of one’s life…
