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A Recapitulation Of My Forgiveness Journey

  “Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.” — Nisargadatta Maharaj Forgiveness is the letting go of blameworthiness and resentment with regard to anybody who has wounded you,
April 25, 2019

Giving A Voice To Women’s Mental Health

No Shame To Talk About Mental Illness A 2019 report by researchers from the University of Birmingham (the first UK cohort study looking at the associations between domestic abuse and mental illness) reported a “strong association” between exposure to intimate
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Garden Meditation

“Everything that slows us down and forces patience; everything that sets us back into the slow circles of nature is a help. Gardening is an instrument of grace.” ~May Sarton. Our tiny backyard garden is a year-round source of peace and produce.Gardening
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Single By Choice

The best way to live one’s life is to live with freedom. A life that is spent doing what we want, how we want, and being happy with our choices is the one with the least number of regrets. This definition
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Each Story Is Different And Unique

Society tries to put us, women, into boxes.Like the models in a glossy magazine cover, we have to be flawless; trophy wives with beauty, body, and brains; superwomen who balance home life, career, and child-rearing with ease. We have to be perfect
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Recovery

The events of the last few months have been too much. The world has been too much. The Virus. George Floyd. Black Lives Matter. Rio Tinto. 434 Aboriginal deaths in custody. 55 Indian journalists arrested for doing their jobs. Our
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And They All Fall Down

The necessary overthrow of our idols in our journey of individuation. We’ve seen a lot of statues being forcibly taken down from their plinths and pedestals, in the past few weeks, as the #BlackLivesMatter movement has started to increase in
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The Alphabet Of Women

March 2018. I lay horizontally at the foot end of my bed as my two young daughters finally slept. It had been a tumultuous night of fevers and restlessness and yet, despite my fatigue and worry, my mind was busy.
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Love in The Time of COVID-19

  Every global event brings with it valuable lessons for humanity. This COVID-19 breakout is also teaching us something. We’ve all been sick before and we all know that the only certainty of birth is death. But what we keep forgetting is that thing
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Want To Step Off The Hedonic Treadmill?

Hedonic Treadmill- An ironically unusual euphemism for humankind’s persistent preoccupation with happiness. The renewed continuously search for increased levels of happiness and the invariable adaptation to new-found happiness is a psychological phenomenon termed Hedonic Adaptation or Hedonic Treadmill. We aim at
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Unfolding

Joseph, my friend in Vancouver, sent me some old black and white pictures. They depict scenes in Sri Lanka when the country was known as Ceylon, the Paradise Island. These pictures are interesting, provoking a variety of emotions within me. 
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Woman Of Vision- Bakes By Bella

Entrepreneurs are disruptors by nature: progressive thinkers, impatient with limitations, people who go their own way – and not on the roads generally travelled. Melissa Dharmadasa, the creator of BakesByBella, highlights this when she says: ‘The mind is a
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Why We’re All Slow Learners?

  If there is such a thing as a ‘slow’ learner, does it mean there are ‘slow’ teachers, ‘slow’ trainers, ‘slow’ Head Masters, ‘slow’ officials, ‘slow’ institutions, ‘slow’ systems? It’s amazing to see how many people use the term ‘slow’ learner without
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Poise By Purpose

I detest, very much, that word faith. I do so because of the way the word is abused, to convey anti-intellectual, illogical, and a blind acceptance of a conventional mode of thought without any further examination or probing. But I
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Jolie-Laide

My body’s first betrayal was not its own. Never abuse, not when it is the nagging nasty reality of a woman’s world that people will tend to sit too close, to encroach into your space, their hands lingering, yet
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The Gentlest Activist

  Surviving And Thriving In Times Of Crisis If we liken ourselves and our lives to ships on the ocean, it is a challenge at times to keep afloat, let alone to successfully navigate the troubled areas of life
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A Minority Laugh

  To keep our guesthouse refreshed, a team of three used to enter my room every day. Usually, it consisted of two girls and a boy. Or, you could call them women and men. They are still in their youth. Young women
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Power Of Digital Sisterhood

  In the last 6 to 12 months, several all-women’s groups have been created on digital media platforms. In the U.S., Jada Pinkett Smith’s ‘Red Table Talk’ brings together three generations of women – Jada herself, her mother and her daughter
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Women Together- Empowerment In Action

  Shey Perera, in 2016,  founded United Humanitarian Aid, a small non-profit charity that helps any and everyone in need. It started by collecting used goods in working, usable condition and donating them to people in need: helping people clear off
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Autonomous Women’s Group Of Thessaloniki

KATINA MAGASINE 1985-1995 The Autonomous Women’s Group started its activity in 1985 in Thessaloniki, a city with a very vibrant student life and a lot of energy. Young women, mainly University students, who already had an active role in women’s matters,
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Only With Our Consent

Some of the most crucial of choices include the decisions we make about our significant others and our love partners. In a previous era, I would have said husbands and husbands only, but today there are many kinds of categories of
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Redefining The Classroom

People who criticise teachers tend to overlook the fact that the typical government school teacher has a challenging situation – a shifting population of children who are at different levels, with home conditions that do not always support education, and with
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We Write Your Rights

The Challenge Of Creating Educational Material For Women Refugees As academics dealing with real-life educational issues with important socio-political dimensions, we often need to struggle in order to find a balance between our allegiance to our research goals, our ideological
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