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I have been really struggling with lack of inspiration and enthusiasm. As time has gone by and I kept questioning my purpose in life, the...

The flight to New York was long and tiresome. So many firsts for me and my mom. (My mom was 43 at the time; it’s so hard to believe that ...

Before leaving for our new life, we started sharing and giving away our belongings. This was hard for me, not because of the material pos...

“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s needs, but not every man’s greed.” — Mahatma Gandhi I watched as my mom went to work every ...

There is one thing I have learned starting from a very young age: Life is about choices. The choices we make ripple though the universe a...

Annamaria Nemeth is not just a survivor. She is a thriver.  Growing up in communist Romania, she was denied the basic human rights that m...

There was another piece of my childhood which really affected me. As I was growing up in the austerity policy era, living conditions were...

My hatred for my father grew stronger as time went by. He had to be stopped. I truly wished him dead. To keep my sanity I continued to st...

I feel my childhood was a constant state of being in fight or flight mode. My sense of being highly attuned to others and needing to be h...

Life, for me, at some point became a series of rebellious acts. I was fed up with all the rules, restrictions, control, and expectations ...

Challenges at school and home became harder to live with. By the time I reached third grade, my disdain for school really showed and it f...

My life has changed so much. As is typical, when I was a teenager, I hated everything about my life. Leaving home might give me a reason ...

I have to admit that, as the possibility of all of us being reunited became somewhat more real and once the adrenaline rush cleared, the ...

So we got news that the process had started. My dad had finally found a sponsor to get him into the USA. An old aunt of his, who lived ou...

Our case became very well known and we were starting to receive local support. For me, this was a blessing, although I hadn’t yet learned...

Saying goodbye to my father the day came with mixed feelings. My little body was so use to the fight or flight mode and I was in a consta...

I remember that day so clearly. The rain, the walk from school. I walked in the house and sensed a very somber disposition in my dad. He ...

Life happens. It happens whether or not we feel ready for it. It happens whether we are young or old. I decided to share some of my traum...