This is an ugly world. I have had to stop reading the news because it makes me depressed. Constant news of people inflicting pain on other human beings, animals, the earth… some times I cannot believe that these are other humans I was reading about. The things we do to each other, to kids, to…
This whole mental health push feels like it is getting over the top Sure there is a lot to do. Yes, its great more people are in it. But it feels like people are in it because it’s the next bandwagon. And it’s the “next big thing” so we need to be seen as part…
I am depressed. Or I should say I find very many aspects of life depressing. One morning last week, I woke up super early to get ready for a client meeting. Something popped up on my feed and to my own devastation, I read the news. It was a report about a child sexual abuse…
Same loop. I haven’t been writing for months. Haven’t been reading either. I haven’t seen many of my friends, even though I vowed to spend more time being with people and not just in transactional meetings. I am wondering again if I will ever make it – not knowing what “it” is. I am unravelling,…
I get it. Many of us want to stop and feel like we cannot. We do not have the luxury to be depressed. 9 years ago, I could. I had no kids and therefore no financial obligation or school fees to pay. I had a company to support me through part of that experience. I…
98,598 page views 1,258,945 followers 12,590 likes 305,619 downloads XXX award. YYY scholar. ZZZ woman of the year et cetera, et cetera, et cetera… All. Not. Mine. Nothing to do with me, except for the fact that I feel incredibly insignificant when I scroll the WeChat Moments and group chats and Facebook links and LinkedIn…
I’m upset. Davos picked Prince William instead of me to speak about mental health. Fine. I get it. Fair choice. It is very heartening to see mental health high on Davos’ agenda. It is heartening to see mental health on more and more people’s agenda these days. When I first wrote about depression ten years…
I am incapable of being hopeful. When life hits Timmie with a steel curved ball, knocking him down, he gets down and beaten up, but he remains at the core, a firm belief in himself and that things will get sorted out and “It will be all right.” He endures with a hopeful outlook and…
I wonder if we all have some form of narcissism in us. Narcissism in its very crude sense self-grandioso. I sat next to a young girl on the way back from Shanghai. Her fingers in my peripheral vision bothered me, because it kept swiping and tapping on the phone like no tomorrow. I glanced over…
Been in the half-sinking mud cycle of inertia. Feeling forgotten because all these people who do events that ties into my speaking topics do not think of me. Because haven’t done much lately. Because there is a list of proposals to write. Because there is some business development to do and I am procrastinating. I’m…
Enoch Li, (pen name: Noch Noch) was born and raised in Hong Kong and Australia. She has also studied / worked / lived in the US, France, UK, Japan, The Netherlands, China, and has travelled to more than 40 countries. She loves travelling and her curiosity in foreign cultures and languages has led her to enjoy her life as an international executive in the banking & finance industry. However, she was forced to take time off work in 2010 due to her illnesses and after spending time in recovery, cooking, practising Chinese calligraphy, reading and writing – in short, learning to take care of herself and letting out the residual work stress, she has transitioned into a Social Entrepreneur and founded BEARAPY to help corporates make workplaces mentally healthy, and support executives to become more resilient.
