To make a very long story a little shorter, from around the middle of 2011 to January 2020 I was psychologically abused by my ex boyfriend's mother and in some ways even by him. When I finally got away, I spent a long time feeling sad and angry about all those years I...

“In a sense, we are all time travelers drifting through our memories, returning to the places where we once lived.” ~Vladimir Nabokov I found it by accident, a grainy image of my childhood bedroom wallpaper. It was tucked in the blurry background of a photo in an old...

‘Techniques, while helpful, can become traps. When we become fixated on perfecting a particular method or measuring our progress in meditation, we can lose sight of the true aim of practice: insight into the nature of reality.’ Everyday Buddhism

Hello, I am here to tell my story in hopes it could help someone else on their life journey. I was actively in addiction for longer than ten years. I have 3 kids. My kids were taken by my mother. Long story short, she did not agree with the man I was seeing, who I had...

I have been homeless and on drugs for the past 20 or more years of my life. In June of 2025, I got a horrible abscess on my neck from shooting drugs. No drug addict wants to put down the drugs and go to the hospital. That is why most of us die. But I knew if I did not...

After fifteen years of a beautiful and loving marriage, I lost my husband, my partner, my anchor, and my best friend. Overnight, life demanded a version of me I had never known before, one that had to be strong, composed, and capable of holding everything together for...

My life was going fine until one day I was diagnosed with IgA nephropathy, a rare kidney disease that progresses and has no cure. My life felt shattered like glass into a million pieces. Thinking about my husband and my six-year-old daughter, I could not process the...

‘The greatest determination is similar to the one of a beginner who has just started practising meditation.’ Kusan Sumin