Jeng Abutazil - Learning to live with purpose

Learning to heal
and live with purposesharing it along the way.

I'm Jeng. Mom. Career shifter. Currently rewiring my brain, rebuilding my habits, and figuring out what an intentional life actually looks like from the Philippines.

What I Write About My Story
"I don't feel like it. I'm doing it anyway."

The mantra that got me through the hardest mornings.

My Story

The pieces that make me, me.

I didn't take the straight path. I took the one that kept rerouting. Here's where it's brought me so far.

Mom First

Everything I'm building and becoming starts here. Motherhood didn't pause my ambitions. It gave them weight. Every late night, every hard decision has a face attached to it.

Career Shifter

Healthcare to tech. Employee to freelancer. Following the job description to writing my own. I've reinvented what "work" means more than once, and I'm still not done.

Dopamine Recovery

Rewiring my brain. Less scrolling, less numbing. More doing the hard thing when every part of me wants the easy one. This isn't a phase. It's the whole project.

Philippines-Based, World-Facing

Living in the Philippines, working across timezones. That in-between feeling of never quite fitting the "typical" mold? I've made it my thing.

What I Write About

Real life. No filter.

These are the things I think about at 9 PM when the work is done and the brain won't stop.

Dopamine Reset

What it's really like to cut out the easy hits. The cravings, the boredom, the slow return of focus.

Intentional Living

Building a life on purpose, not on autopilot. Routines, habits, and the messy middle.

Career Shifts

Leaving the safe path. Starting over. Figuring out what you're good at without a title.

Motherhood + Ambition

The negotiation between being present and being driven. Not balance. Coexistence.

Healing Out Loud

Therapy thoughts. Pattern-breaking. Growing without performing growth.

Quiet Discipline

Doing the work when nobody's watching. No alarm-at-5-AM content here.

Things I believe in
(at least right now).

These shift as I grow. But these are the principles I keep coming back to.

Heal While You Move

You don't have to stop everything to get better.

Discipline Over Motivation

Motivation leaves. Discipline shows up anyway.

Document the Process

The messy middle is where the real story lives.

Protect Your Energy

Not everything that asks for attention deserves it.

Writing

Coming soon.

Building the habit before the archive. When the writing starts, these are what you'll find.

Coming Soon
Dopamine Reset

What Happens After You Delete the Apps

The first two weeks are boring. Then something shifts.

Coming Soon
Career Shift

I Left Healthcare. Then I Left Corporate.

Building something from scratch with no blueprint.

Coming Soon
Motherhood

Ambition Doesn't Come With a Childcare Plan

The part nobody talks about when they say "go for it."

Still figuring it out, together.

If any of this resonated, I'd love to hear from you. Even if it's just "same." Especially then.

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Built with intention.

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