This blog combines therapeutic insight with lived experience. I write about mental health, identity, and the emotional texture of everyday life — especially through the lens of living abroad. Many posts include activities and reflection tools to help you engage actively with the ideas to form your own insights.
You'll find essays, exercises, and honest observations — some personal, some professional, all designed to prompt thought and self-awareness. This is a space for exploration, for asking questions, and for staying with complexity a little longer.
Cinema is so much more than simple entertainment. At its best, it's a mirror for our own lives, reflecting our quiet hopes, interpersonal struggles, and the unspoken questions that weigh on our hearts. If you've ever seen a film that spoke to a deep part of you — one that made you think and feel in new ways — you...
What happens when we step outside the culture we were raised in? Between Worlds: Reflections on Culture, Identity, and Living Abroad is a five-part series exploring how life abroad reshapes our sense of self, belonging, and how we relate to others.
What happens when we step outside the culture we were raised in? Between Worlds: Reflections on Culture, Identity, and Living Abroad is a five-part series exploring how life abroad reshapes our sense of self, belonging, and how we relate to others.
What happens when we step outside the culture we were raised in? Between Worlds: Reflections on Culture, Identity, and Living Abroad is a five-part series exploring how life abroad reshapes our sense of self, belonging, and how we relate to others.
If you've just returned from studying abroad, how are you? No, really. How are you doing?
What happens when we step outside the culture we were raised in? Between Worlds: Reflections on Culture, Identity, and Living Abroad is a five-part series exploring how life abroad reshapes our sense of self, belonging, and how we relate to others.
There's a day it happens. You ride your bike to work and realize, with a sudden, stinging shock, that you needed gloves. You find yourself pulling on jackets and closing windows, knowing you won't feel the sun on your bare arms for another six months.
Let's be honest about New Year's resolutions: most of them fail. They get a bad rap for a good reason — we make bold, ambitious plans on January 1st, only to watch them fizzle out by February, leaving us feeling disappointed in ourselves.
Jingle bells, jingle hell... Christmas is a mess.
