Health

I was in primary three when cancer struck

My name is Fidelia. I’m 25 – and I’m a cancer survivor. I was an ordinary child growing up as a third-generation Christian. Grandma would bring me to Sunday School, which was where I...

Faith

I believed that God’s plan for me was to die

My journey with God started in 2007: A six-year-old child, eyes squeezed shut and chubby hands clasped together in prayer as I sat with my kindergarten friends around a table, reciting grace before...

Health

Exhausted from caregiving, I battled depression and suicidal thoughts

I found it hard to admit that I had been emotionally wounded yet again. I could not accept that my depression had relapsed, and here I was, reliving my darkest nightmare just four years after my...

Faith

When I look at my scarred wrists, I think of the man with the nail-scarred hands

I was 13 when I first started cutting myself. Something just rang in my head that inflicting pain on myself would help me to relieve stress and be happy. I was a sensitive kid and had frequent mood...

Health

"Remind me": ANNETTE sings against anxiety

I don’t like to talk about my weaknesses, and not many people know this, but I get anxiety attacks every now and then. They happen especially when something is stressing me out and I focus on it...

Faith

Has your spirit been broken?

Recently, I learned just how deep a self-dug rabbit hole could go. I was knocked down by disappointments and hurts that just came wave after wave, beating and eroding the shoreline that was my mind....

Culture

Live fast, die young

Is there more to life than this? A big question, which most of us have probably asked at some point. But in this age of hyper-connectivity, it’s almost impossible to create space to find the...

Culture

Are you burnt out, bored, and barely rested?

When I started work earlier this year, I struggled with the long hours and intense work. Having been a student pretty much all my life, adjusting to the transition of adulthood was – and still is...

Culture

Grappling with gratitude: How to spice thanks up

In a study now known as “The Gratitude Disposition“, three psychologists divided their participants into three groups with specific tasks: one group was to record only the positive...