Zaid Ismail
Zaid Ismail
@zaidie@zaidismail.com

Author, life coach, and mental health activist. We need to change the narrative from disorders, illnesses, and survival to accountability, understanding, and thriving.

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  • Celebrate your humanness

    Tears are not weakness because it takes strength to embrace your humanness. The worst brutes lack the courage to be human because appearing unaffected by others is their idea of strength. Sadly, such a show of strength seals their hearts to emotion and blinds their eyes to the harshness that they exhale, creating distance between…

  • That empty bench…

    The saddest scene for me has always been the abandoned park bench. It echoes with profound intensity the pervasive isolation that too many experience, but too few reveal. There is a shame that is carried upon the broken wings of abandonment that anchors us in that space between wanting to create beauty in this world,…

  • Own your self-worth

    Before we can allow the world to define us, we have to first give up what we believe to be true about ourselves. I’ve seen so many test their significance in the lives of significant others, and when they don’t get the affection or inclusion that they want, they readily assume that it’s because they’re…

  • The silent ones

    True misery doesn’t love company. It decays the soul in silence. When someone is complaining, it’s because they still have hope that someone cares enough to listen or respond. Or even to empathise. When they give up on these three things, they go silent because they have grown to accept that no one else cares,…

  • Seize the moment…not the day

    Tomorrow is not just another day. Tomorrow is simply today again, only with less time than we had yesterday. If you’re not focused on what you need to achieve today, you’ll always be trying to finish what you should’ve done yesterday. That’s how procrastination and misplaced optimism wastes away a good life. By all means,…

  • Self-imposed prisons of our mind

    We imprison ourselves each time we restrain our natural expression because we’re afraid that it won’t be appreciated, or celebrated. Our need for approval or validation soon becomes our greatest crutch in life, until eventually it becomes our prison. We decorate its walls with images and scraps that honour the past, sometimes recalling moments of…

  • Waiting to live…

    When we are raised in an environment focused on discipline before purpose, or compliance before understanding, we develop the belief that fitting in is more important than who we are. This same mindset leads us to be bullish in our efforts to uphold the status quo because of the inclusion that it offers, while violently…

  • Live, and let die…

    Sometimes, our setbacks in life can feel as if our world is coming to an end. In many ways, it does spell the end of a lifetime for us because we reach points where everything that we know to be true comes under question. Major life events like health issues that compromise our quality of…