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Everybody Bleeds Red
This article challenges harmful stereotypes across race, religion, and immigration while reminding readers that truth, empathy, and education are the only way to break cycles of division.
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Lineage of Old Souls
Sometimes the answers to who we are have been waiting for us all along. Through rediscovered poems, family stories, and generations of creativity, I uncovered a lineage that forever changed how I understand myself. This is a story about inherited gifts, artistic legacy, and the breathtaking experience of finding your roots reflected in your own…
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The Unforgiving
Forgiveness is often misunderstood as something we offer to others, as though it is a gift that excuses or condones what happened. In reality, forgiveness is more accurately a release we give ourselves. Holding onto resentment can keep the mind stuck to moments we cannot change, replaying them in cycles that quietly drain emotional and…
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Your Lying Mind
The mind is tricky. At many times it can feel like our minds are working against us rather than helping us. Our own mind can whisper negative thoughts and our internal voice can become destructive, intrusive, self-sabotaging, perfectionistic, hurtful, cruel, and most of all: deceiving. The Lying Mind The minds’ ability to progress negative thinking…
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Cycles of Insanity
Do you know someone who victimizes themselves to life? Have you ever heard of The Cycle of Insanity? Let’s dive into the truth about victim mentality.
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The Glass House
“The Glass House” explores the challenges of outgrowing enmeshed family dynamics, focusing on the pressure to remain stagnant and the isolation that often accompanies personal growth. It offers a reflection on navigating adult life while rewriting one’s own narrative in the face of familial pressure. Touching topics on emotional independence, arrested development, and family rules.
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Outgrowing Old Family Roles
Outgrowing your family role is an uncomfortable, necessary revolution. It requires the courage to be ‘the difficult one’ or ‘the stranger’ in the room if it means honoring your true self. When you stop playing the part you were assigned, you finally give yourself permission to start living the life you were meant for.
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Indian Roots
Raising an Indian daughter today is a quiet, daily revolution disguised as parenthood. It means dismantling centuries of ‘girls don’t do that’ before bedtime and explaining that her voice was never meant to be a whisper. We aren’t just giving her wings; we are clearing the sky so she can fly without the weight of…
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Rude Awakening
I expected the soft-focus glow of a diaper commercial, but instead, I got a tactical survival mission in a house that smelled like spit-up and desperation. The books tell you how to swaddle, but they don’t tell you how to mourn the loss of your slow mornings and tea. Having a baby for the first…
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