Mental Health

Mental Health

My journey through grief, guilt and self-harm

In 2016, I went through something I never expected – losing my dad to brain cancer. At the time, I really thought that my dad would be fully healed. But he wasn’t, and I lost him. His death...

Mental Health

3 things to remember when feeling overwhelmed

Recently, I’ve been getting so overwhelmed by the demands of life that there are times I feel like I can’t breathe. I’m consumed with panic when I meet someone new at school and simply forget...

Mental Health

7 years of eating disorder: Self-hatred ate me up from the inside

In the thick of pubertal weight gain and pimples galore at the age of 12, I was ridden with shame about the way I looked. My parents would scold me for refusing to enter stores to try on new clothes;...

Mental Health

What having anxiety taught me about God

For as long as I can remember, I’ve grappled with some form of anxiety. And as a Jesus-loving, church-going “good Christian girl”, I’ve often found myself stuck trying to reconcile my faith...

Mental Health

A letter to the hurting

Dear Hurting One, I thought of you today when I read these lines. “Kneeling, I’d picked up one of the shards, dragged its sharp edge across my skin, relieved by the red line slowly seeping up,...

Personalities

The national swimmer who was drowning: Joscelin Yeo’s journey out of depression

I first started swimming at about 5 years old. My parents wanted us to be water-safe so they put us in swimming lessons. Then at about 8, I joined a club to do a little bit more. By the time I was...

Discipleship

At the heart of porn addiction is pain

“The effects of porn on the soul can be deep, and the use of porn itself can be a sign of emotional wounds,” said Josh McDowell, reading out a quote from the United States Conference of...

Mental Health

Do you need some compassion?

“Self, I forgive you.” These were precious words I learnt from a sweet lady who told me about her own practice of self-forgiveness. Every so often we come into need for compassion on ourselves....

Discipleship

“I promised God I would stop”: My struggle with sexual addiction

I discovered pornography when I was really young and because I didn’t know better then, it quickly developed into an almost daily habit of pornography and masturbation. It even came to a point...