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Have you ever met someone with INCREDIBLY low EQ?
Have you ever met someone with incredibly low EQ and consideration of others, that you needed to muster all your inner strength to not physically do something about it? I didn’t do it simply because it’s illegal to assault someone and this would likely result in me having to interact with the person a lot…
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Let’s talk about postnatal blues
They’re real – so very real, it’s scary. It’s not some nightmare or horror story people tell you in hopes you can sympathise with the difficulties of parenthood. They’re an actual monster come to life that breathes into one of the most precious and beautiful moments in your life, and makes it into one of…
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My Baby’s First “Bullying” Experience
I couldn’t sleep last night. 😢 My emotions were a cocktail of anger, guilt and frustration over what my helper shared with me. Over the course of the Lunar New Year, we brought baby David to visit family and friends. David (to me) is really the best baby ever! ❤️👶🏻 He always makes me feel…
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That day, I felt like such a bad mum
It was a really, really bad day. 😢 So many things around me weren’t working out – just totally beyond my control sort of things. And for quite a while now, I’ve been feeling crazy frustrated!! 😫😫 Really doesn’t help that I cannot go out for a full day with a friend to chill (because…
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Want to understand yourself better? Ask yourself this question.
I wasn’t expecting to be asked that question. I was asked to pick between 1-21 to choose a random question to be asked, and I chose 17. (Because I was born on the 17th 😉) “Who is the one person, dead or alive, that you’d like to talk to and what question would you ask…
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The Day a Monster Boss Gave Me an “Almost” Stroke
How can you “almost” have a stroke?Well, according to the doctor, I was very close to a stroke. And apparently my body did me a favour by inducing a panic attack as a defensive mechanism. (Thank you?) It seems if you don’t give your mind and body time to heal – they choose the time…
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First Time Mom? Here are Some Things You Have to Tell Yourself
Time really flies! ⏰💨 My little baby David is already over 2 months old. 👶🏻 And every single day, I’m in such awe that this perfect little guy chose me to be his mom. 💖 As happy as we look, all my closest friends know that the reality. Up till about a couple of weeks…
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5 Products for a Comfortable Confinement
Recently, Mark and I became proud parents of our little bundle of joy. 👶🏻❤️ Even though my birthing experience was really crazyyy painful 😭😵 (share with you guys in another post), my heart has been exploding with pride, happiness and sheer love since David was born. 🥰🥰 Seriously, every single person that heard about my…
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Enough with the mom guilt, please!
One of the most common advices I received from other moms during the early weeks of my pregnancy was, “Filter everything you hear.” 🙉🙉 I didn’t really grasp the need for this until the recent couple months when things really started to pile up and accumulate – and my little one hasn’t even entered our…
Gera Shen 