Category: MY STORY

I regressed into old habits this week and started feeling like a victim again and I decided it was time for stock-taking.  I also realised that this is the typical cycle.  As I learn to

18 November 2018 Part 19 – “One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star” In my last post I recounted the questions that started surfacing in

Part 18 – The Outsider 6 November 2018 7.45 I sit in a quaint coffee shop in London on this mild winter morning. My eyes well up with tears and I contemplate all that I

4 November 2018 My Story Part 17 – Searching for the light God is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The example of His light is like a niche within which is a

28 October 2018 My Story Part 16 Piercing through the heart of darkness I experienced two weeks of the best and the worst of human nature and the best and worst of my own nature in

29 September 2018 My panic and unease during my first pregnancy (exposed in Part 11) increased exponentially after I gave birth. I remember everyone waxing lyrical about the “joys of motherhood”, yet for at least

9 September 2018 In part 8 I had met Shafiq and all seemed well. Unlike in the movies, meeting my life partner is not the happy ending. In fact, as life goes, it inevitably is

2 September 2018 After what almost seemed like a plot in a movie, having fled from Kenya, I returned home downtrodden. A close friend of mine, who had also gone through an extremely rough experience,

26 August 2018 I ended Part 6 in Nairobi, Kenya, with my Arab husband coming at me with a broken coffee table raised above his head, and then by the grace of God retreating without