Mental Health

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...

Mental Health

Men, it’s okay to cry

This International Men’s Day (Nov 19), hear from Awaken Generation‘s co-founder and head of mentoring Calvin Hong who imparts his wisdom on how masculinity doesn’t mean a lack of...

Mental Health

Scared, stressed, sian, sad, seething? Whatever you’re feeling, pray

How have you been doing emotionally? The COVID-19 Stabilisation Phase has gone on for longer than expected, with restrictions extending to late November. With cases still on the rise, it also seems...

Tech

Cyberbullying: When does it cross the line?

I recently heard some alarming statistics. Did you know that a recent study found that half of teenagers in Singapore experience cyberbullying? This figure (52%) came from a global survey that...