A letter to my future daughter: you are already enough.
Tag: shamed into shrinking
Underplaying Mental Health
I intended this to be a very frank and impersonal post about the importance of mental health and acknowledging its existence in both our own lives and of those we love, but even as I sit here to write this, I find myself constantly trying to find ways of underplaying my own mental state and… Continue reading Underplaying Mental Health
Shamed into Shrinking
Having grown up in a pretty liberalĀ household in terms of both culture and religion, it always comes as a deafening blow when I hear things from my extended family that perpetuate the shrinking of women to make space for the ever-growing ego of the man. Now, I know by the end of this sentence you're… Continue reading Shamed into Shrinking