Category: Relationships

All we need is love—and more barks and meows

Hugging and petting your dogs and cats helps our body to release happy hormones we all badly need these days.

Beating deadline stress

Deadlines could be challenging, demanding, and sometimes, threatening, especially when there’s poor Internet connection.

Top 7 ‘Notes on Self Love’

‘Notes on Self Love’ tackles regaining one’s self and choosing yourself amidst all the battles you face.

Kay Tatay

Suot muli ng Tatay ang fuschia pink na polo shirt noong Linggo. Binili ko sa kanya ‘yun noong huling sweldo. Iyon na ang paraan niya ng paglalambing. Walang ni ho, ni ha. Sa pamilya na gaya ng sa amin kung saan patipiran sa “Thank you,” at iyakan na kapag nagsabihan ng “I love you,” yun…

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Why fathers should play an active role in raising Champions

Research has shown that parent-child interactions in the early ages can lead to more positive cognitive and socio-emotional benefits.

‘Inshallah, I will be home soon’ : Honoring OFW Mothers in Saudi Arabia

No amount of distance can ever quantify how Filipina mothers are willing to go through for their family and children especially those working overseas.

Finding peace, manifesting wishes through charms, crystals

Unprecedented lockdowns and quarantines have led people to seek new and old ways to protect their inner peace and promote wellness, so crystals have made a resurgence.

Grieve then rage against the dying of the light

Let our grief be our catharsis, not to perpetually expunge the events of the past, but rather to acknowledge that it will never fully end.

Fight worries and anxieties, one candle at a time

The pandemic may seem endless but you can help yourself to get through this tough time.

10 ideas to help you survive this prolonged quarantine

The pandemic may seem endless but you can help yourself to get through this tough time.

Need a Breather? Try Old-School Journaling

Journaling serves a sacred purpose: the freedom that writing brings so the soul could wander blissfully.

Online Protection and Self-care for 2021

An exhausted, overwhelmed mind would be easy to sway into believing false information, hence the need to take enough breaks from Internet use.

Staying Away from Online Toxicity

We will continue to rely on the Internet for safer interactions, so here is something to make us better understand behavior in cyberspace to protect ourselves from toxicity, disinformation and misinformation.

Why We Hate Ourselves The Most

Driven by our passions and ambitions, we, ourselves, are our harshest critics.

Dogs, Crickets & Novena: Surviving Isolation in a Quarantine Facility

A COVID-19 survivor tells us about the longest nine days of her life in a quarantine facility where lizards, crickets and dogs helped her lived through the isolation.

How Do We Justify Healing?

Choosing to better yourself is the best thing that you could do to show how much you love yourself.

“I had no job, no money, no dream. But then, life happened.”

‘Yes, sh*t happens. But miracles do, as well.’

The Sixth Spice Girl

‘Nothing could change the fact that, viva forever, I was the Sixth Spice Girl.’

Father’s Day in Isolation: Celebrating Filipino Heroes Overseas

Father’s Day celebration is a bit different this year, no thanks to COVID-19, especially for first-time OFW fathers stuck abroad.

When Quitting Your Job Is the Right Thing to Do Even During a Pandemic

But in pockets of idle time, UNCERTAINTY would rear its ugly head. ‘Where am I headed next?’