Tag: authenticity
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It’s Not Burnout. It’s Your Soul Trying to Speak
When exhaustion isn’t about overwork, but about misalignment. There’s a kind of exhaustion that no amount of rest seems to fix. You sleep, but you wake up tired. You take time off, but the heaviness doesn’t leave. You stop working, but you don’t feel lighter. And so you assume it’s burnout. That familiar checkpoint of…
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Why You Might Start Seeing More Spanish Here
Lately, I’ve been feeling something shift. Not dramatically. Not overnight. But in small, quiet ways. In the way I think. In the way I speak. In the way I move through my days and realise that I exist between languages. Because the truth is, Spanish has always been just as much a part of me…
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Small Things That Instantly Improve My Mood
I’ve realised something about myself over the years.My mood doesn’t need grand gestures. It doesn’t need life-changing news, big wins, or dramatic moments. Most days, it just needs… small things.Very small things. The kind that feel almost silly to admit, but work every single time. Like walking outside at night with my AirPods on, noise…
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Why I’ve Stopped Explaining Myself
There was a time when I explained everything. Why I spoke the way I spoke. Why I dressed the way I did. Why I liked certain restaurants and not others. Why I was selective about the people I kept close. Why I made some lifestyle choices that didn’t look “normal” or “necessary” to others. For…
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Why I Started Blogging in 2026
If you had told me a few years ago that I’d be starting a blog in 2026, I probably would’ve laughed. Blogging felt like something from another internet era. Something we all did, or followed, in the early 2010s. Then somewhere along the way, it faded into the background. Replaced by feeds, reels, stories, algorithms,…
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The Famous Five, and Why I Still Think About Them
I think I was around nine or ten when I first read The Famous Five. This was well before Harry Potter came into the picture. Back then, reading felt quieter. Less of a trend, more of a habit you picked up if someone put the right book in your hands. I was living in Mumbai…
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Learning to Trust My Voice Again
There was a time when trusting my voice felt natural. I spoke, wrote, expressed, without second-guessing every word. Somewhere along the way, that changed. Not dramatically. Not because of one big moment. It happened slowly, quietly, through years of working, adapting, fitting in, and learning when to soften things, when to stay quiet, when to…
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