After motherhood my life didn’t seem like my own. In reality I was too tired to bother about boundaries. I needed help from family and friends and slowly I traded my privacy for help. Privacy isn’t strictly physical boundaries. It also counts who’s opinions you let alter your life and how much say they have…
Tag: happiness
Bad Mom to Bad Ass Mom : transformation story.
You are a Bad Mom! Stand in the mirror and say that to yourself. The day you don’t move a muscle on your face hearing that statement is the day you would have won the battle. You have truly become a Bad Ass Mom. Everyone you ever meet is going to have an opinion about…
Emotional Abuse and How to recognize it?
I can safely assume that by now we as women are liberated enough to recognize physical abuse and raise our voices over it. The same cannot be said about emotional abuse or emotional domestic violence plainly because one has no visible scars to show for the proof of abuse even to oneself. But the scars…
Diaries are a girl’s best friend- not diamonds.
Most of us began writing in diaries when we were probably teens. It transitioned to wordpads, secret online password protected notes but there is something earthy and ethereal about the connections of the ink to paper. It feels like a painting and not just words. It gives one a sense of release that little else…
The Essential Cosmopolitans for Survival
Give me a neatly mixed cosmopolitan and I shall conquer the world. I didn’t always favour the drink to begin with, typically because everyone called it too girly and I wanted to show the world I was made of iron and steel too. Not all girls love Barbies but is it right to shame the…
Adulting – To Adult or Not? Do we even have a choice anymore?
I fully realized on my 31st birthday that my life was taking me on a path. The ‘road not taken’, my life had diverged into a yellow wood and I had inadvertently chosen my fork without realizing I was at the junction. I cannot honestly say Frost would have been proud of my melodramatic breakdown….
Sumeru Presents Masterclass with Sashi Cheliah
MasterChef is one of the few television series that I never miss. I have followed every season diligently and we always watch it together as a family. We take sides and vote for our favourite dish and who should be out that week. Sashi was everyone’s favourite and when he was in elimination I was…
Happiness Begin With YOU
Be yourself; Everyone else is already taken. — Oscar Wilde. This day 15 months back!!❤️ ❤️A little human had been in my life and managed to turn it 360 degrees and a quarter.I feel like I have known him for ages. I know what he is gonna do next second, I know what he feels…