I HAD TO LET GO OF HATRED

EVERY day she takes calls from young people desperately in need of help – those battling depression, anxiety and low self-esteem or struggling with suicidal thoughts and feelings of hopelessness. And Felicia Goosen (27), a qualified wellness counsellor, is in a good position to help them. She too faced a gamut of mental-health issues as a teenager and knows only too well where her patients are coming from.

Felicia hasn’t had an easy life. She was born in a Thai jail and separated from her mom, former beauty queen Vanessa Goosen, when she was three years old. She was 16 when she saw her mother again and by