My Story of Intergenerational Trauma
I wish I could feel loved and safe around my family. Unfortunately, this isn’t my reality, and will never be; even if a genie would grant me a thousand wishes. The irony of how the father’s failure led to his son’s – towards the women in their families.
What growing up in a patriarchal home taught me
My parents did and do love us though, but their way of loving us suffocated us on most days. It swallowed us whole. And throughout time, it started to envelop us like a flood of grief, loss and never-ending unhappiness.
Dealing with My Broken Family & Healing Myself
Life’s messy, whether or not you’re from a perfect family. Challenges are inevitable. You just have to fight through them, because let me tell you, you cannot outrun challenges. Life, like we know it, will always find a way to make more.
Should Women Want to Have It All?
Feminism paved the way for us women to have the luxury of choice. So we must choose for ourselves what makes us truly happy and fulfilled. Our measure of success should no longer be how much we had to give up or how good we are at juggling our work-life balance.
Breast cancer made my life better
After completing treatment and undergoing surgery to remove my right breast entirely, I took another seven months of rest, to give my body the time it needed to recover from all that it had gone through. I was lucky. Many other patients I knew were working through their treatment. Their employers were not as supportive. And their financial constraints made rest impossible.