This is a continuation of the previous post, so if you haven’t read it, read that one first. It was very tough to write. For a while, I even contemplated on scrapping it and not posting it at all. But I also felt I owed it to this blog and to my readers to show even my most vulnerable state of mind. It’d be hypocritical of me to only write about things that only affected me in the past. The news of my (former) friend hit me hard, and here, I tell you everything EVERYONE, not just new mothers, need to know about postpartum psychosis.

I started the year 2024 off right. But a few days later, tragedy struck. I heard the worst news about someone who was my closest friend for many years, and someone I was just about ready to reconnect with. So it got me thinking about the DO’s and the DON’Ts for new mothers postpartum. I wish I followed some of my own advice during that first year postpartum. But here I am telling you to be better than me.

Mariska Hargitay, who plays Olivia Benson on ‘Law & Order: SVU’, recently wrote an essay that was published on People Magazine where she chronicled her sexual assault story. Reading it helped me understand my own trauma, but Fran Drescher’s (my two previous posts are about her) sexual assault story helped me understand the healing process of it all. And here’s how…

Having mentioned Fran Drescher in a previous blog post that I wrote reminded me of the writer’s strike that halted Hollywood last year, and it made me think of what life as a writer is really like. Here, I give you a glimpse of the behind-the-scenes of a life of a writer.

The very last post of 2023 was all about Barbie and the #WomenSupportingWomen social media movement. And just like I mentioned in the previous blog, sexism isn’t the only problem in our society that needs attention. Homophobia, for one, is another great example of that stigma. I’d been thinking about that a lot, actually. It’s especially true since I’m a bisexual woman. I keep asking myself whether or not my life would be any different if I were to end up with a woman. Here, I tell you how it’s been proven for decades that it wouldn’t be.

To end the year 2023, I wanted to write about the biggest movie of the year – ‘Barbie’. Moreover, I wanted to analyze how the movie represented the real life of a woman, and how the #WomenSupportingWomen social media movement holds true, in business and in life.

My previous post about Matthew Perry’s death was a tough one to write, but it made me think of Brooke Shields’ recent revaluation – she suffered a seizure in September. Her opening up about that day and how those she was with handled the situation made me think of two other people who recently opened p about their loved ones struggling with the seizure disorder. THEIR words proved one thing: the struggles of the loved ones of those suffering seizures aren’t talked about enough. This blog post is a start!

You can call me the ultimate ‘Friends’ fan. I used to watch the show religiously when it initially aired. It was a show that taught me English, and it was a show that taught me about friendships and I didn’t have any. To no surprise, it was very shocking when Matthew Perry passed away on October 28th, and his death got me thinking of what his character, Chandler Bing, means to me.

And in just a blink of an eye, my son just turned a year old, and I now officially have a toddler! I love my son with my entire being, but that’s not to say that this past year wasn’t filled with ups and downs. Most people talk about the ups of having a child, so I wanted to tell you about the downs, specifically the first year of a child’s life.