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...
Death. You know this feeling according toĀ what you’ve been through. The death of a person. The death of a dream. The death of hope. I admit I probably havenāt experienced great tragedy...
When I wasĀ 9, I wasĀ molested by my uncle. I was silenced; told not to lie. “Kids will be kids,” they said. When I was 11, I finally stood up to my uncle. I shouted at him to āF***...
About 3 years ago, I woke up barely able to see a thing. There was a sliver of light coming in from my left eye, and nothing through the right eye. The blood vessels in both my eyes had burstĀ that...
Weāve all heard stories about amazing women ā but how often do we hear these stories from the mouths of men? Thir.st went behind the scenes withĀ five suchĀ women who have incredible stories of...