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One of the most useful things from my time in counselling was this phrase my friendly old counsellor would always say to me: “Would it help to apply a bit of objectivity to the situation?” Over...
Last week, CNA reported that those in their 30s comprised the highest number of suicides in Singapore last year. Called the “sandwich generation”, those in their 30s are caught between their...
In October 2015, Pastor Takashi Funatogawa, or Pastor Tak as he is known to his Singaporean friends, was installed as the senior pastor of Sapporo Minami Evangelical Christ Church. He was only 34 at...
It was a lazy spring afternoon outside Ueno Station in Tokyo where our team had agreed to meet Pastor Kaoru Inoue. We hadn’t met him in person before, but based on photos we had seen online, we...
I would like to start with a disclaimer that I am not neurodivergent, but am writing this from the perspective of an allied health professional who works very frequently with neurodivergent people. ...
Jayna’s earliest years were marked by feelings of rejection, fear and loneliness. As a child, she strove for perfection in everything she did due to the high expectations of her caregiver and...
TRIGGER WARNING: This article deals with sexual assault. My first encounter with Christianity happened when I was in secondary school. But it wasn’t in the usual way that anyone would imagine. I...
I was born with multiple congenital heart defects. I had atrial septal defect (ASD), ventricular septal defect (VSD) and patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). Big jargon. Simply put, I had 3 holes in my...
I grew up, for the most part, not having a father figure present in my life. Mum was my only parent. My mum raised my siblings and I single-handedly and it wasn’t easy for her in many ways....