For many career-driven women, exhaustion no longer comes only from long hours, deadlines, or visibly demanding workdays. Increasingly, it appears on days that look manageable on paper. No urgent meetings. No crises. No obvious overload. And yet, by evening, the mind feels foggy, the body heavy, and even simple decisions feel difficult. This is not […]
For many women, love is not just an emotional experience. It is a responsibility. A continuous, often invisible effort that runs in the background of daily life. It is remembering, anticipating, soothing, adjusting, explaining, and managing not only one’s own emotions but someone else’s as well. This unseen effort has a name: emotional labour. While […]
Emotional growth is rarely a joint process, even in long-term relationships. People evolve at different speeds, shaped by experiences, responsibilities, and self-awareness. For many women, especially those navigating demanding careers, this uneven growth becomes most visible in adulthood when ambition sharpens, emotional intelligence deepens, and life demands maturity. When one person grows emotionally and the […]
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too little, but from doing too much strategically.Meetings booked back-to-back. Side projects added “just in case.” Evenings filled with productivity podcasts, planning tools, and future goals. On the surface, it looks like ambition.Underneath, it is often something else entirely. Productive avoidance is the…...
For years, emotional regulation has been framed as a mental skill something shaped by childhood, personality, therapy, or willpower. If you struggled with mood swings, anxiety, irritability, or emotional overwhelm, the assumption was that the solution lived entirely in the mind. Science now tells a different story. A growing body of research shows that how […]
In recent years, food has quietly shifted roles. What was once treated as a convenience, an indulgence, or a background routine is now being reconsidered as something more fundamental: a source of stability. Across cultures, age groups, and income levels, people are returning to home cooking—not as a nostalgic hobby, but as a practical response […]
