“Can you help me?” I asked my mother as I stood in the kitchen. I needed to eat but I wasn’t able to make myself a meal. In fact, I wasn’t able to do much at the time and didn’t understand what was happening to me as I felt like I wasn’t able to get […]
Finding the Purpose of My Privilege
I sent out a mailer in February saying that the pandemic was a non-event in Singapore. Now five months later, I cringe when I think of what a privileged thing it was to say. The pandemic hasn’t affected my life very much so far or those around me for that fact, but it has impacted […]
Adventures in Family Constellations Down Under
I was at a Family Constellations training in Australia in 2018. In case you’re not familiar with it, Family Constellations is a therapeutic approach that can help you address personal issues and problems by looking at the systemic dynamics and unresolved trauma in your family and ancestry. It is estimated that up to 90% of populations […]
Seeing the Goodness Around Us
One Christmas in the late 90s, I went to visit my sister who at the time lived in Phoenix, Arizona. Our whole family had flown there to celebrate the holidays together. We took a drive up to the Grand Canyon, stopping in Sedona along the way for a few days. It was a very scenic […]