Self-love is not easy. Self-love is a journey. It sure isn’t an easy journey. When life throws us curveballs after curveballs and with every failure that we face, we end up questioning our self-worth and that is not healthy. …

In honour of me turning 27, here are 27 things that i have learned in my twenty-seven years on this earth. What screws us up most in life is the picture in our head of how it’s supposed to be. Before I started writing this article, I had…

2021, I’m ready to let you go. You definitely were not the best, easiest or happiest years of my life and I am ready to say goodbye to you. 2021, you broke me down, you knocked me to my knees, leaving me grasping for breath as I longed for the…

What it feels like to be twenty-six and lost I am 26 years old. So at this point, I am truly an ‘adult’ by society’s standards. Honestly, in your twenties, it feels like you are trapped in the middle of two separate identities. …

“I’m sorry for your loss” is a phrase that I have heard many times growing up. How do you reply to that? I still don’t know. I smile and look away. When you lose someone close to you, no matter what people say, it cannot eliminate the pain. …

On Monday, I started my first teaching job at a college I have already been working at for two years as a temporary staff. Three days into my very first job as an actual teacher, I found myself crying in my car on my way to work, wondering if I…

“That’s the thing about pain. It demands to be felt.” — John Green I write because I have lots of stories to tell — not to brag nor ask for your pity. I write because writing distracts me from my reality, that I so desperately want to escape. I write because writing takes my pain away. I write because I’ve been hurt, broken…

I love children’s books. I’m writing a children’s book of my own. I also work with children and I truly believe that books and reading to children is so powerful. When I was a child, I truly believed that my bedtime stories could cure just about every problem that my…

I like to pretend that I have my shit together. I like to pretend that I know exactly what I’m doing and where I’m going in life. I’ve always been a planner, I have my life planned out in to-do lists, planners, calendars and itineraries. The first thing that I…