Anxiously Surviving
Anxiety is a whirlwind that can’t be contained. It’s a highly irrational fear that feeds on generating a false sense of reality. It surprises you from nowhere and is always stubborn to leave. It’s a voice inside your head that locks you in without a key.
Living with an Invisible Illness
I couldn't engage with my friends the way that I wanted to, and how they reacted to my problems made me feel like a burden. Being a self-conscious teenager as I was, I felt ashamed and I chose to be quiet for years. Eventually, cancelling programs became normal.
Learning how to Juggle Grief
There is not a way to replace lost loved ones or moments, but we have the blessing of memories. Lost parents, grandparents, sisters, brothers, friends, lovers are given the irreplaceable opportunity to live on in our memories and continue to shape the things we do
Living with Chronic Fatigue
What can be done about the stigma around non-visible disabilities? There are so many things I would change about what I go through every day, but the most important would have to be how people perceive me and my abilities.
The Class of Covid-19
The Class of 2020 won’t get a graduation photo. We won’t get a grad ball. We didn’t even get to have the last four months of our university career.
Battling the Body
Given 45% of the population uses social media, body dysmorphia is a daily burden that is almost inescapable when you are at your most vulnerable. She feels isolated in a world where image is an obsession and society provokes you to feel insecure in your own skin. She doesn’t see what others see when they look at her, she is paralysed in her version of herself.
The Importance of Gratitude
We are all guilty of taking things for granted to a certain extent - we breathe, see and touch them every day, therefore we don’t pay much attention to them.
Social Media and the Feeling That Things Could Always Be Better Than They Are - are we perpetrators as well as victims?
I have a horrible feeling that somehow, no matter where I am or what I’m doing with my life, I will never be satisfied. Someone will always be one step above me, living a life I would die for or having the ideal body that is miles from mine.
A Struggle With Identity - Where Do I Belong?
"Where are you from?"
"London"
"Okay...but where are you REALLY from?"
Saying Goodbye to the Life Thief
I hadn’t heard of the term ‘Diet Culture’ until fairly recently. I had no idea how deeply ingrained it was in my own life, my behaviours, and my thoughts until I started following body positive Instagram accounts and first discovered the term
It's okay to do nothing. You're in the midst of a crisis.
The media has forever encouraged people to fit unrealistic expectations (especially women in particular). This lockdown period has demonstrated that even when confined to our homes, the media expects women to live “perfect” lives. One would think that such an event as that we are currently in, would encourage solidarity, yet we as a society continue to break each other down.
Navigating Conflict
I think it can be useful to recognise the pervasive nature of conflict - deriving from platonic, romantic, professional, and almost all other relationships. Each of these situational kinds of conflict can provoke different emotional responses
Here, now.
Yes, I had panicked a little at the beginning of the pandemic and the thought of not seeing my friends or going outside had seemed unbearable, but up until that morning everything was going surprisingly well. I felt good. I felt optimistic.
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