The SHAKTI Study is a study by JIVINITI, the Research and Creative Communications Program of The Virsa Foundation, Inc.
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Her diary · White · in her 40s

Sheila

Sheila calls herself “loyal, dependable, sarcastic, loving, high strung.” She is a single mom who had been laid off during the pandemic and was looking for work. She writes that worry is her “go-to thing to do,” and that leaving school because of bullying made her empathetic.

a single mom of three, two of them grown · 2 of 5 days in the diary

All names in these stories are pseudonyms.

Her diary, day by day

  1. Day 1 · You

    I grew up fairly poor so I am pretty good with managing money and cutting costs

    on what shaped her

  2. Day 2 · Your world

    My motto is, "It'll all be ok in the end; if it's not ok, it's not the end"

    her motto

  3. Day 3 · Nutrition

    She did not write on this day.

  4. Day 4 · Resilience

    She did not write on this day.

  5. Day 5 · Envisioning

    She did not write on this day.

In her own hands

What she drew, wrote and shared.

Names, places and dates are covered.