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Does Belonging Start With Self-Acceptance?
Finding a sense of belonging is not always easy. Belonging might seem elusive when you struggle with conflicting intercultural identities. Or when you feel like an outsider among groups. Perhaps belonging starts with self-acceptance. Look within to accept yourself as you are. When you accept your cultural traits that you like and dislike as part…
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Healing from My Asian Childhood Trauma and Writer’s Block
Writer’s block is something you encounter when you’re a writer. It’s frustrating and frustrating to overcome. There are many reasons for writer’s block. Trauma is one of them. Unprocessed trauma, such as difficult moments in your childhood, upbringing or past experiences, can play a part in the struggle to write. I started writing my first…
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Where Do You Really Feel At Home?
Home may be a place that you know well. Or a space that resonates with you. Or something that seems elusive. The feeling of being most at home is a multi-layered, complex construct, and it can be hard to explain. As someone who is often caught in between Eastern and Western cultures and has lived…
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7 Ways To Stop Talking To Someone Without Being Rude
There are times when you’ll encounter people who are up for a chat and will talk away. But you don’t want to talk and want to avoid them. You might wonder: how do you stop talking to someone without being rude? How do you end a conversation politely, especially if the other person won’t stop…
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Why I Feel Like Quitting After 7 Years Of Blogging
This month* marks seven years since I started this blog. This year marks a turning point in my life where I’ve thought about quitting blogging and even writing altogether. It seems my relationship with blogging has hit the seven year itch. Over time I’ve blogged less and less. When I started blogging, I blogged weekly.…
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6 Reasons Why You Feel Like You Don’t Belong Anywhere
‘Why don’t I belong?’ Sometimes we go through moments in our lives where we don’t fit in with a certain group or place. For some of us, we might feel like we don’t belong anywhere most of the time. Either way when we don’t belong often that means we feel different. The feeling of not…
Mabel Kwong 