Exhale Warriors

Struggle is Real

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...

Survivor

“My mental health journey is filled with bumps and crevices. I now realise that I had made peace with unhealthy mental health, because that state o...

Do you. Be you. For you.

"Do You. Be You. For You." :) I think that's where I'm at right now. ⠀Since a decade I've been aiming to figure out who I am, but whoever that I am...

My body not yours

“I'm sure a lot of other women can relate to my story because it started with me at my gynecologist's clinic. I sat in the waiting room holding my ...

Keeping it real

“Annushka was such a happy baby” is something I have always heard my family say. And I must admit, I liked knowing that. I always wanted to b...

The struggle is part of the story

“Since I was a kid, I didn’t share much about myself with others or complained if I was unhappy in a situation. I didn’t have a steady group of fri...

Self Love Club

“7th grade, my skin started to break out. Everyone around me had flawless skin and a perfect face. I was blessed to have friends who never made me ...

Kindness

"My first instance was when I was 13, I was on a holiday and I had ordered breakfast, it was pancakes and hot chocolate, and my aunt looked at me a...

It's Okay To Not Be Okay

“My sister had a manic episode of mental breakdown two years ago. We took her to several psychiatrists and psychotherapists until we found out she ...