“Stillness is meditation. Not silence on the outside — but attention on the inside.” There are different kinds of tired.There’s the tired that sleep fixes.And then there’s the tired that lives in your bones.The kind that comes from years of holding everything together — being capable, reliable, successful, fine.I didn’t need a break.I needed to […]
How I Learnt to Sit With Myself… In Stillness Read More »
A personal journey from rigid belief to soft surrender—how I let go of religion and quietly came home to my own spirit. Childhood & Religion I was born into a Muslim family in the south of Kerala. Not the strict kind, but the kind where rules still wrapped around your wrists like invisible bangles. The
WHEN I LOST RELIGION, I FOUND MYSELF. Read More »
It was January twenty eighteen, peak summer in New Zealand. The decision came months before, gently seeded by a friend at work named Akivi. She looked at me one day, bright and certain, and said, “You have to go to New Zealand. It’s the safest place on earth to travel solo as a woman.” I
I didn’t travel alone to escape anything. I traveled to meet something — myself. Read More »
