When we think of bullying, usually what comes to mind is images of nasty kids ridiculing or shaming a weaker target in school, in the middle of child play courtyards or in the school hallways. However, bullying can be quite more subtle, and to this regard I'd like to tell you about one of my many bullying episodes, that re-surfaced recently. It surfaced while I was trying to resolve my secure-connection shadow. At some point in my life I have internalized the belief that peop

I already talked about the shadow sides of the Philippines - and how they gave me an opportunity to grow - in my last blogs. Today I want to talk about the positive aspects that I got in the Philippines and that I learned from. The first is connection. After being back in Taiwan for four days, I started to realise I was missing something, something that I had in the Philippines. And that is the ability to talk to people. I'm not referring to language barriers - although I do