About courage and being you

168 days (a PhD season)

I have recently found myself feeling overwhelmed and trapped. I felt as if I needed to revisit my sense of who I am and where I am heading. I am in the last stages of my PhD. I have 7 months left. That's 168 days left. The workload is intense, but I need to mentally remind myself that each step takes me closer to my goal. So my message to you is that even if its tough, fear is the thing that stops you from taking steps. In listening to that one voice that encourages you and ignoring all the others that tell you "its not possible", "why would you want to do that?" and "you should focus on other things."

The truth is that purpose is unique to each individual, but having the courage to discover and have the resilience to reach your unique irreplaceable potential, those are skills that can be learnt by anyone. And it involves regulating your thoughts... so your different...now what can you do with that?

Introductions

This is just an introduction of who Anouk Jasmine Albien  is, as well as two other female academics  (Maria Zinga and Lily Kpobi) that keep me sane.

I hope that you will enjoy this brief snippet.

Planting research seeds

This is the beginning of my documented research and community development endeavours. As a PhD student I have spent many hours of trying to develop, interpret and capture the career voices of marginalised youth to create psycho-social resources to enable a different future for these individuals.