Recently I read the article about Rahaf al-Qunun, an 18-year-old Saudi Arabian girl who fled the abuse from her family as well as threats after renouncing Islam. Rahaf fled from her family while on a holiday and got stranded at Bangkok airport when she was stopped by Thai immigration authorities and her passport confiscated. She…
Have you ever found yourself wanting to stand up for yourself and what is right all the time? How many times have you seen injustice perhaps with the way things have been running in your country, or perhaps with something that happened to your kids, or maybe to your grandparents? You really wanted to defend…
Life is testing you at every second, are you on autopilot or are you watching? We can focus on listening to the birds chirp from out of the window while we make a cup of tea, perhaps we can focus on our thoughts while we make a cup of tea, perhaps we’re already complaining out…
Children have incredible skills which are ignored because everything surrounding them including the television has created a standard of acceptance. When children are young, they have incredible skills which they themselves ignore or don’t think anything of. Majority of the time no one expects them to have a skill which begins at three, five or…
Know your worth and don’t settle for less than what you deserve …
It is ultimately the stories that one tells themselves that gives them the life they got and walk through life elegantly. Living in five countries, travelling to over a dozen, immersing into a new life which was different from the culture I was brought up in has allowed me to observe both the world outside…
Thinking of a title for this article was difficult because responsibilities can also be linked to priorities. If you want, you can make notes or take some minutes to reflect on the following: At what age did you start taking responsibility gradually? What were the circumstances around that and what made you become responsible? Did…
Painting words with poetry (check out this poem and translation in English under the blog section) – …
Original Version (A mix of five languages)Check out the news page for the 6th of January 2019 for the artistic version of this poem.Below the original version is the English version.A day where I felt like painting words with poetry“En un día abondonada” Tango TeezersThey are envuelto like eine chocolate, noir draped in rouge, ils…
Have you just left the nest, started travelling, are a divorced parent, going to live and work abroad, have bad organisational skills or have you entered a new phase of your life and are finding it hard to carry out everything? To take a look at it clearly, it’s helpful to put your week’s agenda…