“You have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.”  When I was youn...

The wounds I carried drove my life for years, unseen and covered over with thoughts, survival skills, beliefs and philosophies. I didn...

It’s very easy to compare ourselves to others in order to gauge our own lives. Like Karen, I often find myself looking at how other pa...

Pir-e-Kamil Pir-e-Kamil  (or  Peer-e-Kamil ),  ( Urdu :  پیر کامل صلی اللہ علیہ و آلہ و سلم ‎) meaning  The Perfect Mentor , is a fictio...

Something had to give and it did —my health. An auto-immune disease I’d kept in check for years reappeared. Who could be surprised give...

What do we mean by conscious living? I suppose having greater self-awareness, and operating from a state of presence for longer periods, ...

Beauty of my country The Shalimar Gardens (Urdu: شالیمار باغ), sometimes written Shalamar Gardens, were built by the Mughal emperor S...

For many years I certainly couldn’t. I lived my life fitting in: doing what seemed right, in the way everyone else did. I thought it woul...

"Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing" What about yourself makes you feel so ...

The more you hide your feelings, the more they show. The more you deny your feelings, the more they grow.” When I first started explori...