I Am Not Weak
I’ve often wondered what drove me to have those wicked thoughts of wanting to commit suicide. Did I, in fact, have a mental illness?...
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Sep 28, 201910 min read
I Came Back to Tell You to Fight
I was a very reclusive child and a runaway kid. There was already so much going on inside my head and I couldn’t handle the overload...
Sep 27, 20197 min read
The Light That Shows Me the Way
I remember one time my brothers and I had to avoid drops of blood splattered on the pavement that followed our path to school...
Aug 1, 20199 min read
Exhale and Recover
If you didn’t know, The Troubles refer to a nasty civil dispute that spanned over 30 years between the British and Irish...
Jun 11, 20197 min read
When the Sky Is Gray
I had a good early childhood...However, happiness is easy to be interrupted. All that changed when I started secondary school...
May 16, 20198 min read
Wildly Unique
What makes a person unique? One just has to look up at the night sky. Just as each star differs from all the others, each of us...
Mar 29, 20197 min read
Ever After
I grew up in Taiwan, South Korea, and Hawaii, floating back and forth between the three places to see my father who was an influential...
Mar 25, 20195 min read
I Do Not Keep Them Hidden Any Longer
As a young girl, my parents sensed that things weren’t right with me. I would jump back and forth between doing things. I would start...
Jan 22, 20197 min read
To Rise
In 2008, my whole world imploded. Everything I thought was supposed to take place in my life, bar the details, was blown to smithereens...
Jan 19, 20199 min read
The Thinnest of Threads
I’ve always heard people say that nothing good ever happens after midnight. For the longest time I found that to be true of my birth...
Dec 19, 20186 min read
I Will Live on
I, on the other hand, was stubborn and lacked religious devotion, putting a gulf between me and my parents where I never felt as close...
Apr 19, 20187 min read
From Meek to Bold
If I were to give advice to the little girl that never stood up to anyone and felt alone much of her life, I would tell her that it’s...
Feb 9, 20187 min read
Darkness Breaks
Everything I had touched in my life had so far become a disappointment, and I wanted to end it all.
My life flashed before my eyes as I...
Feb 9, 20185 min read
A Warrior, Not a Worrier
But thoughts of death don’t just go away. They linger like the plague. They interject themselves at every turn and persuade you that life...
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