Waiting Room Wisdom: When Stillness Speaks
They told me to drink a full bottle of water an hour before my session. “We need your bladder full,” the nurse said gently, as if that were a normal thing to ask someone first...
They told me to drink a full bottle of water an hour before my session. “We need your bladder full,” the nurse said gently, as if that were a normal thing to ask someone first...
Because sometimes growth isn’t about gaining—it’s about rising above what no longer serves. And thank goodness, because my mental storage was getting full anyway. Early this month, I was invited to an event hosted by...
A highly unscientific but emotionally accurate guide to discovering your inner superheroine during menopause. Menopause hits like a Metro Manila traffic jam: you’re secretly hoping that it won’t happen but regardless of how much you...
The first joke I ever heard from my dad involved a genie, three princes, and three wishes. There were three princes in a faraway kingdom, each granted one wish by a genie — but here’s...
A Menopause Bedtime Story (That Ends Badly) Once Upon a Time… Sleep Was Simple I remember when bedtime was a fairy tale in itself: you got tired, you went to sleep, you woke up refreshed....
At 26, I had it all figured out. I was newly married and had just been given a big job in the Fortune 500 company I was working for. Clear timeline, bulletproof plan and unwavering...
Reflections on My First Year—and Why It Felt Like Corporate Déjà Vu A year ago, I did something that felt oddly familiar. I walked into a new environment, filled with unfamiliar equipment, coded language, unspoken...
Last week, I was frantically looking for an old notebook I had scribbled important notes from an online class. I went to my home office where I stored all my old notebooks – it wasn’t...
Osteoporosis is often referred to as a “silent epidemic,” and for good reason. This skeletal disease, characterized by weak and brittle bones, typically shows no symptoms until a fracture occurs—by which time significant bone loss...