“What we remember from our past contains the clues to our present and future.”. Maureen Murdock, in her excellent book Unreliable Truth: On Memoir and Memory. I read this sentence, and I paused. Maureen’s remark resonated profoundly and represented a new doorway to my eternal quest to better understand who I am. I always wondered […]
Do you remember the movie “Gone with the wind”? I watched it a long time ago with my parents; it captivated me back then. With time, I forgot most of the details, but the resilience of Scarlet, the heroine, stayed with me. I still remind myself when things get rough “that tomorrow is another day.” […]
Most of us go through life hoping to meet the one person that will become the life partner with whom we live happily ever after. It might take one relationship or more, but deep inside we know a perfect partner is waiting for us somewhere in the world. We only need to embark on a […]
It has been a long time since I shared anything. My life’s journeys (“Rihal” in Arabic) has taken me into unexpected pathways. As part of that journey I found myself incubated in a beautiful quiet town surrounded by nature. It wasn’t planned nor expected; but here I am surrendering to an incubation within the womb […]
“There is a sense of freedom in loss” I know it sounds scary at the beginning! The first time this thought came to my mind, it shocked me to the extent I found myself shaking my head fiercely trying to dismiss any trace of the thought. Nada, you need therapy! Not that I have issues […]
“Time is my ally”, an affirmation that I have been repeating for the last two years hoping I can fix my relationship with time. For those who don’t know what is an affirmation, simply putting it, it’s a statement that you keep repeating to yourself in order to rewire your subconscious mind. We all have […]
I heard this term first when I was reading about the rituals that tribes in Africa use to pick and later on celebrate the new hunters. Aspiring young males, were sent to the forest with only a spear to kill a lion. Those who survived and succeeded in the mission were accepted as part of […]
If you know me personally or you read my previous post “Flowing with Uncertainty”, you will know that I am a warrior. I will borrow the words of Paulo Coelho and say a “Warrior of Light”. One important characteristic that comes with being a warrior is persistence. Once I identify a clear goal that I […]
Many of us were born with a clear plan for our lives. It starts with our parents planning to have their 1st or in my case 2nd child and it goes through the school plan, university, career, marriage, and kids, and the story goes on. Of course, there is always room to improvise even if […]
