Abdallah Hesham

How many of us have created New Year resolutions before and watched them wither awaymoments after the New Year sprung. The new gym membership falls into disuse comeFebruary; items forbidden from the new diet sneak back into the pantry by March. Even goals towork less and spend more time with friends and family seem to […]

Rebirth can mean a number of things form reinvention, a change of heart or a literal death and risingagain. Eckhart Tolle in the Power of Now says, “die before you die—and find that there is no death.”Whether it’s a literal or metaphorical rebirth for a character, it signifies a momentous occasion in theirlife and a moment of great […]

When you are feeling under threat by someone or something, you are pulling on all your energyand this converts to chemistry of cortisol and adrenaline, this adrenaline activates flight or fight,your primitive nervous system, to respond to that threat as though your life depends on it. Theadrenaline fires your mind and your body. You use […]

Change, though we all know is inevitable, many of us resist. For some, keeping the status quo is a way ofnormalizing their lives and setting their expectations and for others it is something they thrive for butdon’t really know how to make it happen without looking completely crazy or break a societal rule. Thetruth remains […]

If you tell yourself any of these lines, this article is for you:“I have to be perfect”“My life is more difficult than everyone else’s”“I am too old or I am too young”“If I ignore it, it will go away”What we tell ourselves is what we believe. We often decide that we can’t do something withouteven […]

I want you to think about the life of a caterpillar for a moment. When the caterpillarhears the call to climb the tree, what does it do? It doesn’t look around and wonderwhat’s up the tree. It doesn’t lament leaving its family or outgrowing its old life. Itdoesn’t wonder if it’s going to succeed or […]

Sometimes we are observers of other people’s lives and we think we will never experience whatthey are going through whether positive or negative. We think to ourselves, ‘This will neverhappen to me’.The beauty of life lies in its unpredictable and ever changing nature that holds the power totransform us. Acceptance becomes key to allow us […]