SAM Frida

What if conflict isn’t personal? I attended a session with Vienna Pharaon, author of The Origins of You, and one takeaway hit hard: conflict is often just two nervous systems trying to protect their hosts. That changes everything. Instead of seeing someone as the...

What if your mother’s silence was her higher self trusting you would find the words? What if the trauma you inherited wasn’t a burden, but a coded invitation to awaken, break, rebuild—and rise? It’s not romanticizing pain. It’s recognizing that those of us who make it...

This is what it means, not expressing the “woke” verbiage but living it.

We weren’t just taught to be good—we were conditioned to disconnect. From childhood, we were trained to override our inner knowing for the comfort of others. “Don’t talk back.” “Be nice.” “Good girls don’t act like that.” These cultural scripts run deep, and they...

People love to say, “You’re so strong,” or “I could never survive that.” But truth is, you don’t know your strength until life forces it out of you. I used to think I wasn’t strong either. And then everything crumbled. What came next was pain I wouldn’t wish on...

A hush between horizon and flame, where silence stitches salt into skin. A curve of breath the moon forgot, where no footsteps ask for return. Eyes not mine have blinked at her swell— some called her sand, some sea, but I knew her before she was named. Before I was....

I often notice when parents express giving their children the best means filling their world with toys, gadgets, clothes, or comfort. Especially in many Asian households, love is sometimes mistaken for sacrifice that shows up as provision — school fees, new shoes,...

Some families are built on silence. Not because they don’t love—but because they’ve been taught that love means protecting the image, not addressing the harm. Generations are raised this way: where loyalty is measured by how well you avoid the truth. Where speaking up...