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I have said this before but somewhere along the stress of my mid-twenties, I forgot to keep up all the amazing habits I had picked up in my teenage and early twenties. In my mid-twenties, I gained weight, I stopped applying makeup everyday, stopped caring about my diet, and sometimes, didn't even dress up in a really intentional way. This resulted in me feeling uncomfortable in my body and in my mind. I did not feel like myself and was quick to anger and overwhelm. That was n

As a Bahraini resident, there is something that was not on my Bingo card this year: war. So we are at war because of countries we do not like. I do not want to make this into a political post so I will refrain from talking about the war itself and rather talk about the affect it has on my 'poor nerves'. Sirens, phone alerts, explosions, and restrictions are not the greatest to endure as one is also going through other struggles. I wasn't able to make the birthday trip I plann

I don't know if you knew me as a teenager but if you did, you would know that I did not wear jewellery then, applied little to zero makeup, and dressed in a lot of colours. A lot of things have changed in the past few years and one of those things is that I have started paying more attention to my clothes. I am enjoying the process of adding and curating my wardrobe for each season. As I have already written, I am trying to dress more feminine. That means adding more dresses,

I read the poem below on a Saturday morning and thought it carried the sweetest sentiment. I am not one for long, winding poems (I am a doom-scroller in recovery, after all) and so found this to give me the exact hope and pleasure I needed that morning. An Epilogue I have seen flowers come in stony places And kind things done by men with ugly faces, And the gold cup won by the worst horse at the races, So I trust, too. - John Masefield

Going through a hard time lets us know what is most important in life and that it is our health and the health of our loved ones. It is the one thing that can change the trajectory of our lives. (I used to think, in my arrogance, that eating well, exercising, hydrating, and taking supplements was for "other people". Oh, the folly of youth!) Self-care is such a huge industry right now (and has been for the past few years) because we are going through so much and most of the ti