Hong Kong was once home to my ancestors, my parents, and me and my two younger brothers. We are ethnically Chinese and more specifically Cantonese-speaking as our forefathers originated from the port ...

After having my son nearly three years ago, I struggled with an almost debilitating embarrassment about my performance as a mother. His birth unleashed a sense that I somehow wasn't good enough, so I ...

How a gay atheist teenager discovered Jesus and stopped living undercover. Bill, I’m gay.” The word vomited out of my mouth. I had never actually said it before. Not out loud, at least. We were in a ...

Shame is like the mythical monster under your bed. You are so terrified it will devour you that you won't even look to see if the monster is real. When you allow yourself to see and feel your shame by ...

There are no shortage of reasons for women to feel shame in our over-exposed, image-obsessed world: We’re shamed for being too fat and too thin, for being too sexual or not sexually available enough.

If reading the first line of this made you shudder, then I’m guessing you might have also grown up during the boy band, Y2k era or somewhere around then — and if Y2K sounds as outdated as LOL to you, ...

There are few topics as steeped in shame as money. We’re embarrassed about having too much, having too little and everything in between – but while conversations around money have slowly become more ...

My father was the most amiable of men. I used to laugh at him in conversation with guests. He’d say to one uncle, “Yes, you’re right.” A moment later, he would say to another, of a quite contrary ...