When Life Gives You Lemons…

… make lemonade. Like how a strong physical immunity keeps the colds and coughs away, cultivating a good mental immunity not only better supports you through life’s slumps, but also growing and learning from them. In light of International Women’s Day, three women, in different stages of life, on the emotional struggles that uniquely women face — and how they bounce back stronger

- Chelsea Tang

ON LEARNIG ABOUT PERMININIT , AND BEING IN TOUCH WITH HER EMOTIONS

NARELLE KHENG Singer-songwriter, actress, presenter

“Coming into the music industry as a young girl, I was definitely malleable to ‘standards’ because I didn’t know what my own boundaries or groundings were. I did feel like I had to squeeze myself into this cookie-cutter shape of what a young female performer should be: wear a short skirt with heels, while carrying a giant bass guitar bag. Smile often, don’t say the ‘wrong’ thing in interviews. Be easy, be palatable. I think a lot of these ended up creating the dissonance between who I was, and who people thought I was, that eventually ended up in me actually dissociating. It happened each time I had to be ‘Narelle Kheng’ and that’s when I lost a lot of my memories.