Tag: Acceptance

One of the insults many people seem to enjoy hurling at each other is about how ignorant they think the other person is. This seems to be universal. It apparently doesn’t matter which culture you come from, and it also starts young. I certainly remember being called “馬鹿” when...

Being a mom has been the most challenging, yet the most rewarding role I have ever taken on. Traditionally, the society sees the mother as the one raising her children. But as a mom, I’ve learned that it’s the total opposite. The children come into this world to raise...

Tomorrow being Mother’s Day, it’s a perfect opportunity to take a look at the topic of parenting. We all have our own ideas about what is good parenting and bad parenting. As a parent myself, I really struggled to meet my own standards of good parenting, and I made...

Though expressing your uniqueness is seen more and more in a positive light, being different still makes many people uncomfortable. There are plenty of people who grow up feeling rejected by their own family because they were different. During high school years, fitting in was probably one of the...

When I started writing my last post about anger, I didn’t intend to chronicle my life with eczema. But for me, my anger and eczema are so intertwined that it felt natural to bring it up as a way to explain why embracing your anger is so important. The...

You might have noticed from my previous posts that there’s one emotion that I rely on as a tool to help me identify areas where there’s still room for personal growth: My anger. Anger is not subtle.  When it strikes, I can’t pretend like I didn’t notice.  So, when...

Have you ever gotten into an argument with someone and thought to yourself, “I could throw those words right back in your face!”? Or maybe, when you were a child, did an adult scold you for something that they were just as guilty of doing? And now, be honest....

After years of self-analysis, I’ve come to the conclusion that a feeling of strong repulsion within me is a giant red flag. I know that someone or something is reflecting back to me a trait that I do not like about myself. And the explosive rage isn’t really aimed...

Several years ago, touched off by the song, Have It All by Jason Mraz, I started doing a series of instagram posts called A Month of Mays. In the beginning, I strictly followed the lyrics of the song. The year after that, they were mostly positive affirmations that I...