The hardest and easiest thing to do is to begin again. My fellow ruminators, you get me, yes? Like a creeping willow, the smallest remark or incident can wrap its tendrils around our minds, leeching its useless poison into our brains. And we nurture it for far too long. Years ago, when I discovered the […]
Go with the Flow, Rage with your Feelings!
With everything that has transpired over the past two months (it’s detailed in this post), I have learned the benefit of screaming like a demon. Sure, they tell you that this will only raise your blood pressure, give you a heart attack, make you keel over and die. But take it from someone whose BP […]
The Year I Found Peace, Balance & Joy. Bye, 2025!
2025 felt smoother than the year before. Felt is the operative word. Looking back, it wasn’t without its fair share of wins, losses, realisations, acceptance—big and small. The first few months played out with the usual cast and storyline taking centre stage. If you’re new to my blog, some of my past articles such as […]
High-functioning Depression: Is Success Masking Your Struggles?
We were zipping along to our next meeting with an agency, the taxi precariously weaving through traffic, me precisely applying lipstick when my colleague quipped, “Your house can be on fire and you’ll still have lipstick on, right?” I laughed. It was true. That glossy red tube was my finishing touch—polish, perfection, and a mask […]
Just Breathe. Just Be.—Detaching Self-Worth from Success.
It has been ten years since I lost my identity. My identity as a successful, high-ranking marketer in a prestigious company. My sense of self was so entwined with my professional role that when I struggled to get back into a similar position, I was devastated and lost. At fourteen, I knew I wanted to […]
I Met My Younger Self for Coffee.
This is inspired by a recent TikTok trend. Honestly, I was delaying jumping on the TT bandwagon but now that I am working on getting my book published, and have learned that the platform is apparently beneficial to authors (let’s see about my experience), I finally joined last week. I’m @lifeofyasmeenhc, same as on IG. […]
World Mental Health Day 2024, You Might Just Be Proud Of Me.
Oh boy, and it’s October just like that. And it’s World Mental Health Day today. So Happy WMHD to you, and I hope you can find a little time today to breathe and do something nice for yourself. I’m not doing much for this year’s WMHD, normally I’d pick a topic to write up for […]
Talk about a dramatic start to the year!
It’s been less than a month into the new year and so much has already happened. I’m re-reading my 2023 recap now and once again, I am struck by the irony of it all. When I said that “I was concerned about the other shoe dropping”, gosh, I certainly didn’t realise it would be my […]
2023. Was it the same, old year?
Just like that, another year has flown by. After the nasty that was 2022, 2023 floated by peacefully for the first six months of the year. “Peaceful” is relative; there were things happening but because I had shut down after 2022, and had built my boundaries pretty high, I think I was just trying to […]
A Quick Note About The Radio Silence…
I have been totally slacking on writing articles for my blog, haven’t I? My last post, Will I Ever Be Okay, was on April 3rd?! Well, it’s only because I had decided, this year, that my writing focus would be on that book I have been meaning to write for the past few years, but […]