Exhale Warriors

Stop Waiting

Stop Waiting

Married at 20, mother at 23, and divorced at 25. Life went by very interestingly for me; after all these years, I have realised that when I wait fo...

School Kills Artists

School Kills ArtistsAs children, most of us were often told, inside and outside of home, to choose from limited career choices, including becoming ...

IDK - I Don't Know

I literally don’t know what I’m doing!10 grade point average in school, a latin honours degree in bachelors and a near distinction in masters has b...

Your Energy Is Your Currency

First grade. This is when my stammering started and everything went down from there. It was the root cause and the beginning of low self-confidence...

Feeling My Feelings

I’ve been living with depression for the past 7 years. It began when I was in 12th grade, studying in Bombay. It slowly started creeping into my li...

Let Go Of What Doesn't Flow

All my life, I have been an extremely adventurous person. From having gone backpacking to South America for 5 months to being an athlete in school ...

TEMPORARY

At the age of 29, I was diagnosed with a brain tumor and needed an immediate craniotomy surgery. I can never forget the moment when the world aroun...

Share The Load

"Mental health unfolds differently for everyone. I can’t entirely articulate what I went through, however, what I do know is that this journey has ...

Struggle is Real

"I wish I could stand here and tell you that I – a 20 year old – have never had and don’t have a lot of struggles but life isn’t so easy after all....

Fragile

“I was a kid when I told my dadi, "Aapko meri aur Preity Zinta ki shaadi mein aana hai." I feel like I was born as a part of the community. I was ...

Mood

"I once read that life is beautiful and awful and then beautiful again. As we go through the rhythms of life in our early 20s, from school, college...

Strong Not Skinny

“Growing up , I was a very skinny child with crooked teeth who could never play any sport as I was asthmatic and would get breathless even at the t...

Be Kind

“When Norah was born, we found out that she had down syndrome. There was definitely the grief of an imagined life that we were going to live. Whate...