I was honoured to be featured in a Her World story exploring the experiences and journeys of women in Singapore. At the time, I was part of the team at the Singapore Council of Women’s Organisations, which partnered with Her World on the feature.
The story centred on my grandmother — a woman who endured profound adversity throughout her life, including surviving violence that quite literally left scars behind. Despite everything she faced, she continued to move through life with resilience, strength, and care for the people around her.
Reading the article again reminded me how much of our lives are shaped not only by what we inherit, but by what the women before us survived quietly. In many ways, that reflection sits at the heart of Lythe Collective — the belief that girls deserve emotional foundations rooted not just in survival, but in self-trust, understanding, and conversations that help them grow into themselves earlier.
Thank you to Her World for creating space for stories like hers to be shared.
Excerpt from Feature
“She wasn’t the kind of grandmother who showered you with affection or gentle words,” says Kimberly. “She was tough – the kind of tough that tells you she had lived through things most of us couldn’t imagine.”
Madam Vyner died in 2024. She was 95.
Her life and her granddaughter’s – shaped by vast differences in experience, choice and freedom – reflect the story of how women across generations in Singapore have evolved over the past six decades since the country’s independence.
It’s in such unrecorded personal stories that the changes are often felt most deeply.