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How Practicing Detachment Can Save Your Work Life
Dear Diary, Today was a tough day at work. On the day-to-day, my role in the workplace is not just subjected to hard skills like copywriting and marketing analytics. A lot of my work is also handling and mediating people’s emotions. I don’t when or how I adopted this role,…
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Radical Shifts: Your Life Can Really Change in a Year
Your reality depends on your perception. -NP I’ve always hated transitions. From grade 3 to 4 (the start of the grading system), I got a sea of Cs and minuses. From grade 7 to 8 (elementary to high school), I landed in the hospital…twice. From grade 12 to freshman…
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Four Tips on Living I Learned from Death
Nothing in life will prepare you for death. To the surprise of yourself, and those around you, the traffic lights don’t come to a halt, and people will keep strolling down the street to head to work the next day. The world moves on and the sun shines bright, even…
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Personal Finances: What They Didn’t Tell You in School
The word trauma that is passed around in self-help circles these days mainly covers relationship stemmed trauma— family, friendships, and significant others. They never really talk about a type of trauma that’s actually very prevalent, even in higher-income cities (actually more likely in higher-income per capita cities). Financial trauma, in…
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The Evolution of My Therapy Journey
I saw my first psychiatrist when I was 13 years old. It was, at the time, beyond my control and came as part of the recovery package. My initial sessions were awkward partly because I was so far gone down the rabbit hole that logic was an afterthought. My brain…
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Invest in these 5 Things While You’re Single
As a formal single girlie, I often look back at that time with an eye of appreciation and fondness. If there’s anything, being single gave me extraordinary strength and the ability to really lean into myself and my powers. Being in a relationship offers a tremendous amount of support (emotionally,…
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Why We Need to All Think More like a Movie Actor: My Review of the Critically Acclaimed “Greenlights”
I know what you’re thinking…. ANOTHER celebrity memoir? Hear me out, okay? I don’t believe this memoir was an attempt to create another revenue stream or to undo a PR fiasco. This wasn’t some management team decision because this memoir is a pure mess. But a beautiful one that will…
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The Science of Having a Good Day
How to make every day count a bit more in your favour Have you ever glided through the day on a pair of sparkly, mint blue rollerskates—without tripping, once? I’m talking about the days when the aroma of your morning coffee lingers longer, the scent of the pastries smell extra-buttery…
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Make your 9 to 5 a Breeding Ground for Success
Is it just me, or does it feel like every time I go on my phone, there’s this cacophony of hatred toward the 9 to 5 career? When I searched the phrase 9 to 5 on Google, the first 5 results were: “Breaking Free to 9 to 5 Culture” –…
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Losing Interest in Writing? My Mini Vacay from Blogging, Quarter Life Crises..and more.
Hello world. This has been the longest time since I’ve gone without posting. And I have a solid reason why. I’m taking a break. Essentially, last Friday I could not get out of bed—– and not in the regular, I can’t get out of bed on a weekday type of…
Secret Prose 