• Living A Principle Driven Life - Love and Relationships

    Loving From A Place Of Brokenness

    Whenever I contemplate the events of the years between 2016 and 2018, I can truly say that my spirit was broken. I struggled to put the missing pieces of my life together, but I realized how much I learnt about love. Loving from a place where I thought I had it all together doesn’t seem as authentic as loving from a place of brokenness does. Loving From A Place Of Brokenness I’m sure you’ve read this story before but it bears re-reading. Puppies For Sale As a store owner tacked a sign above his door, ‘Puppies for Sale,’ a little…

  • Justice and Social Causes - Living A Principle Driven Life

    Not Fit To Be Born

    Today, 12 October, is International Girl Child Day . There’s been too much in the news recently for me not to write this piece. Not Fit To Be Born is not a poem (I can’t write poetry). It’s just something that flowed out of the anguish I feel each time I read about some fresh hell that a young girl or a woman has been put through in India and abroad. Not Fit To Be Born PawnsIs that what we’ve been reduced to?Not fit to be born – we’re slaughtered in the womb. If allowed to be bornThen we’re a…

  • Authenticity - Living A Principle Driven Life

    The Idea Of Wholeheartedness

    Since the word wholehearted meant ‘with complete sincerity and commitment’, I thought that wholeheartedness was an extention of that. My idea of wholeheartedness changed when I read Brené Brown’s work. Wholehearted living is about engaging in our lives from a place of worthiness. It means cultivating the courage, compassion, and connection to wake up in the morning and think, No matter what gets done and how much is left undone, I am enough. It’s going to bed at night thinking, Yes, I am imperfect and vulnerable and sometimes afraid, but that doesn’t change the truth that I am also brave and worthy…