Discover Your True self
This is a space to share resources, guidelines, tips, and techniques for your personal and professional development, and to help you grow, learn, heal, and thrive. We guide you to discover your true self amidst all external chaos and obstacles.
Women’s Mental Health: There is No Shame in Caring About YOU Enough
Women’s mental health is a topic that is surrounded by stigmas and uncomfortable taboos. Mental health in general is something that is often taken for granted or is ignored completely. This happens even more when discussing women’s mental health because of the scrutiny the female gender is often placed under. This article will focus on women’s…
Empowering Survivors Of Domestic Abuse
Domestic abuse or violence is a pattern of threatening behavior, violence or abuse (psychological, stalking, physical, harassment, online or digital abuse, sexual, financial or emotional) between adults who are or have been intimate partners or family members, regardless of gender or sexuality. Domestic violence can be a single act or a pattern of controlling and toxic…
How Can We Dismantle the Social Construct of Female Beauty?
Women’s bodies and sexuality have historically been used as a commodity to sell everything on earth, from car tires to household appliances! Women are often depicted as objects of visual and sexual pleasure across television, magazines, media, and entertainment industries. If we look around ourselves, we’ll find hypersexualized and unrealistically perfect female forms almost everywhere. Let’s…
The Role of the Society in Crafting Our Body Image
There are a lot of things that led to my developing body image issues as a teenager. A lot of this was teasings and comments from a few school friends, and for a long time, I wanted to blame my eating disorder on those specific people. But the older I grew the more I got intrigued by…
Laid Off? Don’t Miss This Opportunity To Grow
Being laid off in the middle of an economic and public health crisis is probably one of the most difficult experiences one can go through. While it’s understandable that after losing a job the entire focus of a person shifts to finding another job. But, this process could be extremely daunting, leaving one frustrated and depressed,…
Objectification and Exploitation of Girls and Women by the Mass Media and Social Media
Objectification of Women by the Mass Media From the early nineteenth century, in television, films, commercials, and music videos, sexualization and objectification of women became an increasingly growing trend. Mainstream media has always used a false and unreal image of women’s physical appearance, body image, behavioral standards and beauty. Today, across television, billboards, glossy pages of…
How to Get a Job When You Have Never Worked Before
Many women, despite having a good education and advanced degrees, are not economically independent. Women, in many societies never get a chance to have a career for various reasons. Some families do not allow a daughter or a daughter-in-law to go out and work. Sometimes, women themselves do not take their professional life and the value…
Adult Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuses: Resources and Guidelines on Healing
If you are a survivor of childhood sexual abuses, you are most likely fighting a silent and invisible battle throughout your life. You probably never talked about it with anybody and thought you would be successful in overcoming whatever happened to you as a child. you might have always tried to minimize the experiences of abuses…
Are we oppressing ourselves? The truth behind Judgment and snarky comments
In high school, I survived a mean girl. Ironically, she was my best friend. She was back biting me, to my other friends, and putting me down through snarky comments. I remember one incident when I excitedly told her I was going to go to Mexico with my older brother and sister. She told me…
