Sharing Some Good News!

I wanted to share something happy and joyful today. It’s my honor to be nominated for the Rex Awards, co-presented by the United Nations and iCONGO in India.

This award is given to people across different fields – Social Change, Innovation and the Arts – who are impacting the lives of people around them. I came to know of my nomination sometime back and received the confirmation certificate today.

In my writing journey till now, from the time I hesitantly started my blog almost six years ago (the original blog was on Blogger) to writing on different platforms about the gifts and challenges of being a Highly Sensitive Person to this point where my first book is out and about in the world – it’s been a process of bridging the personal with something universal.

It’s been about connecting with people who might feel on the margins and sharing my own journey in the hope that it might be helpful to someone else. At times, this has been a really tough process for me. I am not the kind of person who finds it easy to say what I think or express my voice.

So, it’s gratifying today to be recognized as someone who is creating change or starting to create change around her. For myself, my prayers are that this journey will continue and that I will find more resilience inside me and express more of who I am.

And for you, my dear reader, I hope that you will see that even if things are hard right now, you can move through them. Strength doesn’t always look like brute force. It also looks like persistence – trying, again and again, failing, making mistakes, trying again, and trying yet again.

That’s something that people often undervalue. But I know that’s something that both you and I have, whether we have been recognized for it or not.

You are persisting. You are reaching for what you want. You are not giving up.

Thank you for being part of my journey. Thank you for your kind words. Thank you for helping solidify my identity as a writer. It has helped me get more comfortable in my skin. It has helped me express more of my true self. It has helped me be the artist I always was.

And that means a whole lot to me.

Ritu Kaushal is the author of the memoir The Empath’s Journey, which combines personal experiences from her own life as an emotional empath with insights from different psychological theories to give empaths more tools and resources to connect with themselves.