Self-pity is unhealthy and self-destructive. Here is how I shut down some of my own pity parties and thus regain some power over my life.

Friendship has always been important to me. But as I grow from my early childhood to university years, my perspective on friendship keeps changing.

When I was younger, I remembered wondering how much better my life would’ve been if I wasn’t a girl. It took me 20 years to finally be comfortable as a woman.

I am on my own journey of breaking out of my childhood prison and dealing with stereotypes and expectations, like how to be a girl, daughter, sister and more.