I’m a teacher with a passion for personal growth and the development of self-awareness. I strive to empathize with and encourage people (including myself) to feel and work through the discomfort of life’s emotions.

I call this blog Pocket Past Lessons and it means exactly that. When we’re pushed into experiences where we would rather feel anything but those, we often ask ourselves why we have to go through them.

One thing I’ve learned to accept and even embrace is that every single person we meet and every experience we encounter, whether positive or negative, serves some sort of purpose. When I say some sort of purpose, I mean there has to be something there that we can grow from—whether it is building strength, refining empathy or exercising gratitude. Therefore, we pocket the lessons we learn from our past experiences.

It’s so easy to use our experiences to define us:

“I’ve been through ____, therefore, I am bitter/happy/successful/anxious.” While this is not always the case, it’s just easy to stay somewhere we do not belong.

If we learn to accept and uncover what we can take from our experiences rather than question why we go through them, won't there be more value in them? 

This page is not a formal advice or counselling page. This is a page where I want to share my experiences with you. I want to remind you that you are not alone and that everyone has a story they could never imagine having to relive. Better yet, I want to share my personal practices that helped me and continue to help me heal.

I want to be a person I’m proud of. I want to be excited about life and I don’t want negative experiences to hold me down.

Remember, it’s necessary to feel the different emotions that weave through life, but unnecessary to allow unlimited and ever-changing experiences to decide what comes next for you. 

I want to inspire anyone who needs it. I'm in my early 30s, and there is a lot I imagined would already be accomplished at my age. While my story didn’t end up the way I expected it to, it doesn’t make it flawed. I think that’s what a lot of us struggle with, and that’s okay.

Welcome to my page. I hope it’s worth the visit, and I hope to have the opportunity to hear from you.