SAM Frida

Healing isn’t linear. It’s not a neat little checklist. It’s messy. Raw. Often confusing. But more than anything, it’s honest. What I’ve come to understand is that healing isn’t about how others see me — it’s about how I see myself. And for a long time, I didn’t...

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There’s nothing harder for me than pretending. Small talk, surface-level nods, the unspoken agreements to stay light and polite—it feels like I’m suffocating in a space where I’m not allowed to show up fully. I wasn’t built for the lobby. I wasn’t built for polite...

What’s better than real? Nothing. Anything less than real is… well, unreal. So why settle for it? Why sell it? We’ve built a whole industry—no, a whole culture—around packaging, polishing, and presenting. Webinars on “tone,” courses on “executive presence,” guides to...

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting — it means honoring the pain, breaking the silence, and choosing a new narrative. Generational trauma may echo through bloodlines, but so can love, strength, and renewal. The story doesn’t have to end how it began — we get to rewrite...

I do not know what war is called, I only know my tummy growls, A sound that’s louder in the night, Than all the bombs that fall like owls. I do not know why Mama cries, Her hands shake when she hides the bread, She tells me, “Sleep, it’s almost dawn,” But I can’t...

They didn’t choose where they were born. Yet somehow, the world decided what they are worth. In Palestine, and in so many forgotten corners of the earth, entire communities are treated as if they are less—less deserving of peace, of dignity, of investment, of life....