Building Confident Young Women for the Future
There is a phase in every girl’s life where everything begins to shift, quietly at first, and then all at once. Confidence, identity, friendships, attention, expectations.
Strength Beyond Roles: Madhi Malar on Fitness, Family and Finding Herself
In a world where women balance multiple roles, prioritising personal wellbeing often takes a back seat. Through Built to Inspire on the Raise The Bar platform, stories are emerging that redefine living with intention, strength, and self-awareness.
THE LONELIEST GENERATION: GROWING UP IN THE AGE OF DOOMSCROLLING
There is a peculiar ritual that has quietly come to define modern adolescence. Before a teenager speaks to anyone, before they sit up in bed, before they take their first sip of coffee for the day (which, increasingly, is already sitting beside the bed!), the mobile phone is already in their hand, and messages, headlines, images, videos, opinions, tragedies, jokes, strangers’ lives, and friends’ carefully curated moments all pass before their eye
Reclaiming Attention Through Wisdom of Silence
Most mornings, the world gets to me even before I have properly sat up. A phone screen lighting up, notifications waiting, my mind already sprinting ahead into the day before my body has caught up. Somewhere along the way, this instant switch-on began to feel normal, even expected, as though this is simply what a modern, engaged life demands. I live between continents, I travel often, and my workplaces me in constant conversation with people acro
Excessive Sugar Intake Linked to Brain Diseases and Depression
Sugar has quietly embedded itself into nearly every corner of the modern diet. It sweetens morning coffee, hides in breakfast cereals marketed as “healthy,” enhances the flavour of sauces and salad
WHEN LOVE REFUSES TO DIE: THE HAUNTING OF THE WOMAN IN BLACK
There are ghost stories that startle you for a moment and then politely release you back into the safety of your own well-lit life. And then there are ghost stories that linger. The Woman in Black, the
Strengthening Mental Health Training: King’s College London Team Visits Sri Lanka.
Samutthāna, a Colombo-based non-profit organisation dedicated to strengthening mental health capacity in Sri Lanka, recently hosted a visiting delegation from King’s College London, comprising senior clinicians and academics involved in Clinical Psychology Doctoral Training. The visit marked another milestone in a partnership that has spanned nearly two decades, rooted in shared commitments to professional training, academic collaboration, and ev
Motherhood and Identity A loss. A rebirth. Or both?
Although I’m not a mother, and am far too young to be one, it’s a topic that has always intrigued me. These reflections aren’t drawn from personal experience but from the stories I’ve gathered from mothers
