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Time: 3.43AM.Ā Distance covered: 22.7km.Ā Calories burned: 1,743kcal.Ā Current weight: 52.7kg. That was how far shame took me. At 14 years old, I was training to be a national high jumper. My fat...
Joy?Ā What joy? Minds overwhelmed, we rage, avenge and despair. Our fathers turned to booze. These days it’s mantras, happiness summits, self-improvement gurus, personality tests and...
āI think Iām struggling with loneliness.ā The first time I admitted it out loud was three days ago. I was having dinner with a close friend, and we were on the topic of āthings you donāt...
Itās a rainy Sunday morning and the guy on stageĀ is giving his usual welcome-to-church spielĀ and, like he does every week, he refuses to let us sit down. Before we all get comfortable in our...
If you didn’t know me well, you probably wouldnāt be able to tell that I have been struggling with depression, anxiety and a combination of anorexiaĀ and bulimia for most of my life....
Sigmund Freud once proposed that the mind seeks to avoid pain and findĀ pleasure. In this life, we will get our hearts get broken. People might say mean things to us. Something or someone beloved...
Have you ever felt a pain so great that it pounds through every fibre of your being? I have. My mind goes back to one night some years back when Iād gone to see a volunteer counsellor in one of the...
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white,Ā seated where Jesusā body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot....
I’ve always been bullied. Growing up, I felt no one understood me. I always felt that my parents favoured other people. At least, to my young mind it looked that way ā it seemed they always...