I often felt fearful as a young girl. My parents struggled to provide for us, causing an air of tension in our home. But if I wanted...

I was born into a conservative Christian family in Nigeria in 1991 as the fifth born of six kids. Our days were happy, but strict...

My country is destroyed—people have died of hunger, died from a lack of medicine, or simply have been killed. Thanks to a dictatorship...

I believe that all experiences in life are the stepping stones that eventually lead to one’s truth. And so, I would like to share my...

Stand, sit, eat, drink, poop, pee, and breathe—thoughtless functions for a healthy body. But there I lay, a limp, lifeless, 27-year-old...

Sadly, every beautiful story is entangled with a monster. The monsters that haunted my life and broke my sweet laughter were violators...

It’s an easy sentiment to offer someone else, but it took a long time for me to view my own figure in this way. Loving my body has been...

I am a doubter, a pessimist by nature, who can drain any half-full glass in a single gulp or scrub any silver lining out of existence...

I remember my dad’s smiling face and my mom’s calming aura. Those are the images I cherish—the time before I lost my innocence to...

I grew up making mud pies and racing as fast as my little legs could take me on my metal-footed pedal car. That’s what my early life...

My childhood was a tangled mess of emotions that I still have a difficult time unraveling. There were some good memories...

My childhood was full of laughter, smiles, and love...I thought back then that nothing could bring me down...

All of us have been given a purpose—I believe it. Finding it is the challenge, and once finding it, taking the risks necessary to fulfill...

I do not want to drag you into historical facts. I want to tell you about the adventures of a boy who cheated death. So, let me take you...

When my father was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer in 2006, I remember an overwhelming feeling of relief. Relief. Who does that?...

I’m not proud of how I reached popularity in college, but the statue of limitations has since passed, so it is what it is at this point...

All the while, I felt a sense of urgency to get a medical degree. I knew that I could try and make a difference in the lives of those...

Even when he did seemingly nice things like drop us off at church, he was really only doing it because it was on the way to a bar...

I grew up in Taiwan, South Korea, and Hawaii, floating back and forth between the three places to see my father who was an influential...

There were strict rules, which included the expectation to live chaste and obedient lives. Because of these teachings, I grew up thinking...