How To Overcome Insecurity And Feel More Secure Within One’s Self With the world’s complexities ever-present, it often feels like we’re running on empty. However, no matter the challenges we face, it’s our insecurities and self-doubt that truly sap our drive, courage, and perseverance. That nagging sense of not being good enough or worthy of our desires can freeze us in fear, preventing us from taking action and undermining our relationships and success. When we feel inadequate, our fears of failure, rejection, and abandonment kick in, triggering a subconscious response that leads us to retre ..read more

Embracing Plan B: Finding Beauty in Life’s Detours Resilience in redirects Life doesn’t always go as planned. But that doesn’t mean you won’t reach your goals. It just means you might have to take a different route to get there. Everything happens for a reason, and that reason is yet to be discovered. Years later, when you look back, it will all make sense why you had to go on a different path, why your plan had to be delayed, and why you had to go through all the obstacles you’re experiencing now. 1. Plan B Is Much Better Than Plan A Sometimes we think that the plan we have in our head is th ..read more

It was my 35th birthday yesterday and I thought about what I was grateful for. When I made the list, surprisingly, I wasn’t focusing on what I have. Instead, I focused on what I lack: I’m grateful for the lack of many things in my life. A friend made a great point that we often think about what we’re grateful for in terms of what we’re grateful for having. But what are we grateful for lacking? The lack of something can be wonderful but we often forget to pay attention to and be appreciate what we don’t have.  For example, this year, I am truly grateful for my parents’ lack of diseases an ..read more

True Love Is Coming … Seeing you as the one he’s been waiting for all his life. Ready to take a leap of faith. Jumping all in. Hands in hands. Profile pictures together. Nothing to hide - from ourselves and from the world. Making you feel assured, secure, and trusted he does. Holding you, kissing you, making love with you. Never stop saying I love you and cuddling in bed even when you fight. Never letting you go even when you fight. Seeing you as number one. Your individual dreams become one. Looking into each other’s soul and feeling understood. Together you grow. Together you build a family ..read more

Do you believe in love? I want to believe that it is powerful. I want to believe in love. But experience has taught me that many people will listen to their head, instead of their heart; many people will let their fear of abandonment convince them that they’re not worthy of love and run, instead of working on removing their fears and anxieties. Can someone with a deep fear of abandonment ever feel they are worthy of love? No matter how hard you try to convince them that they are lovable, can they ever feel lovable? Can someone who grew up with conditional love ever believe you love them uncond ..read more

After a long-winded conversation with my friends on Saturday about different personality traits - not only in terms of dating but also within family dynamics, I was reminded of this fact again after having long-winded conversations with my parents (separately as they are divorced). Sometimes a conversation with parents has a way of making a detour to visit issues, conflicts, and misunderstandings that happened during childhood. The discussion started off light-hearted but somehow ended with me (or maybe both of us) having to close our phones or else we would just keep filling our he ..read more

1. Our past/childhood gets carried over into adulthood. Many of us had this issue. Where maybe at some point, usually when you’re little, you may have been told you’re not good enough, not smart enough, or not pretty enough. Whether it was intentional or not - by teachers, parents, or friends - the feeling you felt when you were told that you’re not good enough never truly fades away. It’s been embed deep in your subconscious mind for years after. This hurt feeling gets carried over into your adulthood and affects how you live your life. You may find yourself not feeling confident to do certai ..read more

[ Written pre-COVID] Before COVID hit, I was traveling around the world like a nomad. To be exact, it was from 2015-2020 that I was moving from one place to another, living out of my suitcase. To some people, it sounded like a crazy idea to be on my own without close long-term friends and family. To me, it was a dream-come-true. It was my dream since I was a little girl living in Thailand to have an online business and travel world. COVID has made it hard to move around, so I decided to stay put again. It was a bit nerve-wrecking at first, but I have found a new home in Paris and feel pretty h ..read more

Hope January has been a pleasant month for you. These past few years haven’t been easy. There are two things we’d like to remind you: 1) This too shall pass. 2) You can’t feel two emotions at once. What goes up must come down and what’s down will go up. It’s part of life. So you just have to keep going, taking it one day at a time. We’ve been through this before and we all got through it. Some days might feel heavier than others. It’s okay to feel sad and down sometimes. But don’t dwell there for so long that it becomes too hard to get out. You can’t feel two emotions at once. You can’t be ma ..read more

If there is one word I could use to describe 2021 for me, it is “unpredictable”. 2021 was unpredictable. Everything that happened wasn’t planned. Everything that happened I couldn’t have planned. The pandemic has changed life paths and goals for a lot of people. Routines were interrupted. Relationships either ended or became stronger and reached new heights. Career choices were evaluated. Families became closer and either grew more acceptance of one another or fell apart. You either fall more in love with your city or realize that it’s time to leave. For me, 2021 was unplanned. I never p ..read more