Innocence lost
I recently read "The Killers" by Ernest Hemingway. The prevailing themes were loss of innocence and initiation to evil. College was a...
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She Talks Asia
Jun 2, 20205 min read
I WAS 17
(And all the other times my body didn’t feel mine) When will this body feel mine?, I had constantly wondered growing up. It didn't feel...
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She Talks Asia
May 29, 20206 min read
A Swinging Mind
I almost lost my life in 2018. I was in Japan. As with my every trip to this country, being a favorite destination, I was in high...
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She Talks Asia
Apr 25, 20206 min read
It Always Rains On My Birthday
When I turned 12, I had to be carried from my school bus to the inside of my house — our street was flooded with water up to our waists...
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She Talks Asia
Mar 26, 20203 min read
Counting calories and lost moment
My name is Mara, and I am in the recovery phase of my eating disorder. While gone are the days of obsessively weighing myself in every...
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She Talks Asia
Feb 20, 20202 min read
Grief Is Not Linear
I realized that grieving is not linear. It never is. I learned that memories pop out of nowhere in the quiet moments of the day and...
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She Talks Asia
Sep 30, 20195 min read
24 months later and 4000 miles away from home.
I thought I was in a loving healthy relationship. But one day, the abuse happened. It only happened once but there’s no excuse to justify...
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She Talks Asia
Sep 25, 20194 min read
Survivor to Thriver
According to a study by the Department of Justice, an average of 1 out of 5 girls are victims of sexual abuse and 1 out of 20 are boys....
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She Talks Asia
Aug 31, 20194 min read
Shame On Me (A Mother's Litany of Shame)
About ten years ago, when my son was a small baby, I got an anonymous comment (of course it was anonymous!) on a blog post I had written....
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She Talks Asia
Aug 22, 20197 min read
Coming Out of the Postpartum Depression Closet
26 Dec 2014 I write this with a feather boa around my neck and a glass of champagne in my hand. Ok, that’s not true. I’m in my pyjamas...
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She Talks Asia
Jul 31, 20196 min read
The Times I Was Sexually Harassed, Minus The Glamour.
I spent all night wide-awake, weeping hard. It was not even halfway through reading a report on The New Yorker about a Hollywood...
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She Talks Asia
Jul 25, 20193 min read
The Mirror
I don’t recognise the person I see in the mirror anymore. Each day I look at myself in the mirror and I see someone different....
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She Talks Asia
Jun 30, 20194 min read
Creating Happiness That Nobody Can Take
It’ll be just about almost three years since life with my daughter and I have changed. Two years ago we lived in Manila. The place we...
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She Talks Asia
May 25, 20194 min read
In Our Time (When I'm Ready)
Here's the thing, I find myself inspired in a way that I have never been before and it comes from a very unexpected source. A source that...
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She Talks Asia
May 14, 20191 min read
Mestiza
"No, you're the pink power ranger, and I'm the yellow one." she said. I didn't understand why I couldn't be the yellow power ranger. I...
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She Talks Asia
May 4, 20196 min read
Love is the Opposite of Possesion
A few years ago, I was in Italy when I came across the story of a young wife and mother named Chiara. Chiara had met her husband Enrico...
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She Talks Asia
Apr 30, 20196 min read
Wonder(lost).
I was 7 when I first lost it; all thanks to a silly pair of rubber shoes. All I did was wash them, hoping to come to school the next day...
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She Talks Asia
Apr 17, 20197 min read
Sharing Spaces
The first time my friend Trisha showed us her room, I was floored. “You have your own bedroom?” I queried, as I eyed her closet...
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She Talks Asia
Apr 3, 20196 min read
Virginity Lost, Hell Found.
Nobody really forgets their first time, although, if you’re anything like me, you’ve probably tried to. Molding. It’s what the four years...
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She Talks Asia
Mar 29, 20195 min read
That's Awkward, Mom.
On one November morning, I learned that you are never too old to cry on your mother's shoulder. I was 29, and the reason of course, was...
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