When you've learned to be ashamed of love, is it possible to ever love yourself? I dare say yes.
On the intersection of love and shame
Why therapy might stop working for you
After a lifetime of therapy that truly saved my life, I have been alone with my mind for the last year. And it's been a game changer.
“I will never be loveable” – here’s how to convince yourself otherwise
Never feel good enough? Break out of patterns that no longer serve you and get to know the real you!
Why your emotional breakthrough won’t last – and what will
The pyramids of qualities to cultivate so your epiphany lasts a lifetime.
“Always choose discomfort over resentment”
Why feeling present discomfort is crucial to living the life we truly deserve - and why it is never too late.
“If you don’t like the fruit, find out what the seeds are”
How to release unnecessary suffering with a myriad of gardening metaphors.
When do I move from ‘becoming me’ to ‘being me’?
In which I discuss my life falling apart and why that's kinda funny.
Saturn Return or walking well-trodden paths
A life update and reflection on turning 30.
Sense-less borders (academic essay on British-Iranian cultures)
The following essay was an auto-ethnographic assignment to my MRes anthropology module Migration, Borders and Space: Decolonial Approaches. Looking at recent case studies such as Shamima Begum and Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe as well as my experience with Iranian refugees, what does it mean to be multicultural?
Disabled or depressed: a blurry line
Signs of a mental and physical health flare ups often overlap, so how do I avoid getting caught up in the middle?
Reparent Your Soul 