I grew up in a conservative Arabic household. Spending my early years in a dysfunctional family were not easy. It was a time where I couldn’t be free, have my own character, or express my own personality and opinion.

This was compounded by not having a father figure and experiencing a mixture of abuse in my childhood and adolescence from both parents and society. With the challenges I faced in this chapter of my life, I knew I had no choice but to break out of the unhealthy look and it gave me the push I needed to get out of that fearful environment.

I started working at a young age in different fields with different cultures, so I could gain experience, learn, earn my own money, and with it my independence. In my twenties, I decided to leave my hometown and travel around the world to expand and grow. Before I knew it, seven years had passed in the blink of an eye. Nagged by the growing feeling of being unfulfilled, I started to ask myself: