Mental Health

Mental Health

Navigating choppy waters: An athlete’s battle with anxiety

When I was growing up, my mum put a lot of pressure on me, being the first-born and all. I guess that made me feel like she was a tiger mum. There were a lot of things in my life, like piano and...

Mental Health

How my mental health was transformed: Biblical truths and a brand new worldview

I don’t know what you think of when you hear the words “Christian counselling”, “healing” or “deliverance”. When I first heard of such terms, I actually...

How-tos & Handles

Help! How do I journey with a “difficult” person?

Have you ever found yourself in a position where you had to deal with someone difficult? In most cases, our instinct would be to walk away from people that we can’t handle. But what if this...

How-tos & Handles

Burning with fire or burning at both ends? How to avoid spiritual burnout

As someone who has been active in more than one church ministry on top of being a full-time university student, I can personally attest to feeling stretched. I love serving in church and see it as a...

Mental Health

After feeling like a fraud for months, I sought help

Having studied in Australia for five years, jumping headfirst into work in Singapore was tough. Towards the end of my work supervision, I began to feel strangely overwhelmed and crippled. I felt that...

Family

“I felt like I wasn’t worthy”: After letting go of her painful past, this teen wants to pay it forward

Trigger warning: This article contains mention of self-harm and suicide. At just two months old, Rachel* was sent to foster care due to the history of abuse in her biological family. After nine years...

Mental Health

What cycling taught me about moving forward

The last two years have been the hardest years of my life. I’ve lost a parent to cancer, an unborn child due to miscarriage, a job in church that I thought I was going to do till the day I needed...

Mental Health

“Are we okay?” Pastor Daniel Khong opens up about his mental health struggles at Summit 2022

The last two years have not been great because I went through my own struggle with emotions.  For myself, it was a bit of a double whammy. Naturally, the pandemic brought a lot of changes. But the...

Christmas

When Christmas isn’t so merry

There’s this Christmas song that keeps popping up in the background of one of the episodes of the new Hawkeye series. It goes like this: “It’s the most wonderful time of the year With...