Personal Growth

Dearest ego, I’m writing to remind you, ever so gently, in case no one ever told you, something you need to hear but no one will dare to say; the biggest elephant in the room: that none of what that happened in your early past was ever your fault. You deserved to be loved in…

There are rarely books I read that I feel I want to reflect or write about. But there is one book in particular I recently read that me feel triggered and quite simply, furious. Let me tell you why… I had stumbled upon this TED talk by Reshma Saujani a few months ago that hit…

Oscar Wilde once said, “With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.” I sure hope that’s not the case here. Because over the years, I’d like to think that something deep inside me was unfolding below the chaos of everyday life on this spaceship we call home. Like pearls slowly growing in the depths…

We all live with an inner voice that feeds on our fears and insecurities, seeking to protect our egos from every risk, threat or danger. For whatever reason, this inner critic stops a lot more women than men from being in the arena of public life, impact or leadership, despite their God-given potential, unique contribution…

On definitions, labels and the in-between… In this world of extremes, I always find myself in the in-between.I am too sophisticated for the simple-minded and too simple-minded for the sophisticated.I am too liberal for the conservative and too conservative for the liberal.I am too materialistic for the idealist and too idealistic for the materialist.I am…

Imagine your mind is a room and everything you know is scattered on the floor. Tens of books lying here and there, all open. You start wandering about, glimpsing sentences as you pass them by. It’s amusing at first, you reminisce on the first challenging book you encountered, the few that may have altered the…