Born and raised in Canada, I was able to experience and appreciate the value of freedom and human rights. Growing up, I have always had my parents and grandparents tell me the stories of their motherland, and ultimately, why they left.

“Why do you smell like curry?” Are you going to have to get an arranged marriage?” Don’t you like worship cows or something?” Fielding ignorant questions like these was just an average day in the life of growing up in South Georgia.

As we grow older and have more confidence to think for ourselves, the damage of toxic parenting and dysfunctional families is not easy to forget. Often our trauma is internalised within us and creeps back every now and then.