Tag: mental-health
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From Conference Rooms to Bamboo Roads: Finding Purpose When Institutions Falter
Several budget freezes have occurred. Delayed fieldwork. The vacant posts were quietly absorbed into the budget as part of “efficiency savings.” The hallway talk shifted—from bold ideas to cautious speculation. “It’s just the cycle,” I was told. “Political winds. We’ve been through worse.” But this time felt different. Foundations were no longer shifting—they were splitting.
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Top 5 Tropical Fruits for Energy and Health
Growing up surrounded by fruit-bearing trees shaped my understanding of nutrition in ways I only fully appreciated later in life. On our island, we didn’t “add fruits” to our diet—they were our diet.
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Redefining Freedom: Lessons from Everyday Life
Where in your life might you be measuring freedom through someone else’s yardstick? What would change if you redefined it as internal capacity rather than external circumstance?
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Redirecting Your Focus: Empowering Change in Your Life
I tried an experiment. For one month, I’d redirect all that mental energy toward things I could genuinely impact. These included my skills, my community involvement, and my actual relationships with actual humans
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Transforming Community Engagement Through Learning
Working with communities affected by poverty and HIV changed everything I thought I knew about making a difference. Ten years in the field taught me an important lesson. Clipboards and curricula don’t build communities. Shared vulnerability and mutual learning do.
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The Power of Mentorship: Recognizing Potential in Others
Mentorship creates ongoing ripples of recognition that extend far beyond the original relationship. By helping us see ourselves more clearly, mentors change what we do and who we become.
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Voting with Intention: Faith and Civic Responsibility
This is a reflection on the quiet power of voting without partisanship—choosing unity, justice, and service over division.
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Mindful Social Media: Authentic Island Living
My approach to social media is intentional, focusing on where my passions for island living, mindfulness, and wellness intersect. These, to me, are more important than chasing algorithms or metrics.
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Lessons Learned from My Aunt: A Story of Resilience
Living on our small island was akin to living in a closed environment. Everyone knew everyone’s business, and there were no secrets. As the child of a single mother in her early twenties, I had a label. I carried it before I even understood what it meant. Words like “illegitimate” floated around me like invisible…
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Finding Purpose: My Ikigai Journey
I never planned to discover my life’s purpose while hiding from the Port Louis, Mauritius rain. Yet there I was, ducking into a bookshop in Caudan one dreary Friday afternoon in October. I was shaking droplets from my shirt and wandering aimlessly through the shelves. At that moment, I saw the spine of “Ikigai: The…