I have been very fortunate. My life started with severe adversities. Although I haven't fully healed emotionally or psychologically yet, I have come a long way. I have been joined by some of the most beautiful souls that have ever walked the earth on my healing...

Whenever I am grateful I can feel that I return home. This has been the greatest tool I have encountered in life, and the Gratitude app has been my companion for more than 4 years now, helping me feel gratitude and return home every day I write. Four years ago, I was...

My mum passed away suddenly in November 2019. She left a Will that had been in place since 2012 and had left everything to her surviving children. She was married, but had not lived with that person since 2004, and he had made no financial contribution toward the...

When I was 14, I was going through quite a chaotic time in my life. I cared so much about making others happy and feel good, yet I constantly seemed to mess up and get hurt myself. At times I felt amazing in certain moments, and at others I felt like my whole world...

When Buddhism spread from Siddhartha Gautama’s birthplace in today’s Nepal to many parts of Asia, texts were often translated into local languages to make the teachings of the Buddha accessible to different peoples. Was Buddhist art and imagery also “translated” into...

For the last couple of years, I had been very unhappy. Once I got pregnant, my journey to motherhood was plagued with morning sickness and my birth story was traumatic to say the least. I slipped into post-partum depression after giving birth, and all I could think...

“The strongest people are the ones who are still kind after the world tore them apart.” ~Raven Emotion A few months ago, I stopped being friends with my best friend from childhood, whom I had always considered like my brother. It was a tough decision, but I had to...

I never knew how much practicing gratitude and being grateful for the most simple things in life mattered. Not until I didn't have them. I took a downward spiral about 25 years ago, when times in my life became really dark. I lost everything: my home and my way in...

‘Then the practice will naturally ripen and gradually you will enter wonderful states. If you practise in such a way for a very long time, then you will surely realise great awakening.’ Zen Buddhism

TW: Mentions of emotional abuse, financial abuse, and distress. I recently made the really hard decision to leave my marriage of five years because it was extremely toxic and had damaged me and my 16-year-old daughter emotionally. My husband is highly emotionally...