Surviving The Noise

February 25, 2024

What Am I Even Doing? (Part 1)

This last week has been a lot for me. The break-less over stimulation that comes with attending to the needs of three extremely demanding little ones got to me, as it eventually does at regular intervals of time. Above that, opening up Instagram as a means to distract myself only worsened the situation. Following families…
February 18, 2024

Moving Past the Blame Game

This week I want to get into a tricky topic for me. It may still only be a tip of the iceberg, but I want to make an attempt at it. Being a strong people pleaser (some may debate this, but I assure you if I wasn’t, things would have been a lot worse than…
February 11, 2024

Lazy Days

My major accomplishment last Tuesday was getting my oldest child ready for school – it was one of those special days they have at schools now-a days. It was “Superhero Day” and she had chosen to be Catgirl. I had spent every day from Saturday through to Tuesday morning preparing for her so everything would…
February 4, 2024

Starting something

Last week my middle child started Term 2 after her winter break. Since she goes to a different school than my oldest, they had their breaks at different times. She went to school while the older one had winter break and vice versa. Going back to school after the holidays wasn’t so hard for her,…
January 28, 2024

Journaling

When I was a little under 12 years of age, I was asked to create & maintain a journal as part of a holiday homework assignment. And that’s where my journaling journey began. It started off with just writing daily happenings when I was little and then as I got older and progressed into my…
January 21, 2024

Am I really? This is one of the hardest things to say while completely meaning it, am I right? Over the years I’ve used this word so much that sometimes I even apologize for something that isn’t my fault. I have since found out that I’m not alone in this and that there are so…
January 14, 2024

Am I Beautiful?

What defines a person’s beauty? When I searched in the thesaurus, synonyms that stood out to me were “alluring”, “appealing”, “attractive”, “lovely”, “stunning”. I began to wonder if I fall under any of these above-mentioned categories. It did bring me back to a childhood memory though – One morning, while I was walking through a…
January 7, 2024

On Dating

I can barely remember the time when I was young and all dreamy eyed, and going on a date meant talking about the future, aspirations, who I thought I was then, who I wanted to be growing older, wondering the same things about my date, eventually planning out that future we’d spent so many hours discussing,…
December 31, 2023

Untouchable

When there’s so much going on or even when there’s so little, I feel a certain distance build between me and everyone around me. And everything. Like I am a part of existence, and yet I am outside of it. I feel untouchable, unreachable sometimes, lacking a connect. Even if I try to listen to…
December 24, 2023

The Universe!

I’ve been through 27 months of pregnancy – the nauseous, anxious kind and 3 crazy labour stories and none of that could add up to how sick I’ve been this last week. Unable to even sit down, tied to my bed, flat on my back was the most complicated experience I’ve lived through so far.…