Tag: Relationships
Top 4 Life Lessons from 2024
2024 was the Year of Plot Twists. Never would I have imagined that the second half of 2024 would look so drastically different from the first half of 2024—so much that I've opted not to make a recap video this year like I usually do on New Year's Eve, because it would be too, well, ...
Post-Breakup Reflections: Healing from Heartbreak
Even the most respectful and cordial breakups are inevitably messy—not because anyone intended it, but because the resulting emotional rollercoaster is impossible to avoid. After several months of embarking on my own healing journey, I can say that the 5 Stages of Grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance) are true. And even after you ...
Finding Self-Respect: The Power of Walking Away
When I was younger, I used to pride myself on constantly making a martyr of myself for other people. While I do still pride myself on having the self-control to be kind to people who are not kind to me, to refuse to fight fire with fire, to stay classy when I could easily be ...
Wrestling with Reality: The Difficult Journey of Letting Go
One of the hardest aspects of going through a breakup or losing someone you love is the denial stage, when every part of you resists reality, because it is still too painful to fully accept. It's when the irrational part of you stubbornly clings on to the smallest shred of hope that maybe reality will ...
On Heartbreak and Grief
It's strange: you'd think that after going through heartbreaks in the past that the next time would be easier. But it never is. Each one stings just as badly as the previous one, if not more. Even though you know the post-breakup protocol sadly all too well—removing items from your place that trigger memories of ...
12 Tips for Surviving the Dating World
It wasn't too long ago that my life consisted of throwing myself into many, many, many dates before finding the right person. It can be gruelling and exhausting to throw yourself back out into the arena after facing one disappointment after the next, so here are 12 tips for surviving the dating world. 1. Rejection ...
Love, Actually: Letting Go of Expectations to Embrace Reality
Love isn't always like it is in the movies. Falling in love doesn't always happen in an instant, like a dark room that's suddenly lit at the flip of a switch. Sometimes it's more like a slow and steady sunrise that gradually turns the night into day, transitioning at its own unrushed pace. Maybe love ...
Loving in the “Absence” of Love
Anyone who's ventured into the dating world knows that only the lucky few emerge completely unscathed. Most of us are bound to face a disappointment or two, to make a mistake or two, to have had our hearts broken or to have faced the difficult decision of breaking someone else's. You win some and you ...
Letters from Past Loves
I continue to be amazed by the various times I've received what I call “letters from past loves" … or rather, long text messages that read like letters from people who are no longer in my life in the same capacity, but who continue to mutually share a profound reverence and gratitude for the fact ...
Top 4 Lessons I Learned from the Past Year
A part of me was somewhat reluctant to look back at the past year—not because it was particularly atrocious, but because it was tinted with a bittersweet note. Looking back at wonderful memories also reminds me of the people I shared them with who are no longer in my life in the same capacity they ...
Celine Diaz: Real Talk 