Mental Health Struggles have NO FACE
I spent years running away from this picture. Every time Facebook brought it back as a memory, I'd quickly scroll by it. I took this picture in my friend's hostel room. At the time, I had noticed that my life had changed. I went from feeling safest on my own to feeling like being on my own is the most threatening thing to contend with.
Black History Month and the Pyramid We Inherited, Mental Health, Identity, and Self Image
Black History Month often sits on pride, culture, and resistance. All matter. Yet one part stays quiet. The part about how Black people see themselves, and how those views grew inside systems built to rank human worth. For centuries, whiteness placed itself at the top of the social pyramid - by law, story, religion, science, and violence. The message stayed simple. White meant superior. Black meant less.
Meta Blocks Teens From AI Characters, A Win for Teen Mental Health and Human Connection
This move lands at a time when questions around AI and young people keep growing. How much influence should a system hold over a developing mind? Where does curiosity turn into emotional dependence? What role should technology play when teens treat software like a friend, a confidant, or a counselor?
Your new year resolutions are incomplete without these two
It is by these two pillars that you achieve your goals sustainably.
Faith and Mental Health: Healing Shame, Restoring Dignity
Africa’s spiritual roots run deep. Faith is often our anchor in times of heaviness, yet too often, faith spaces have also become places of silence, shame, and misunderstanding. This gathering was a gentle invitation to name what is usually...
Mental Health Was Never Foreign to Us
Today is World Mental Health Day and before we speak on anything in regards to mental health today, I think we need to dispel this seemingly light but dangerous notion that the West introduced mental health to Africa. Perhaps we lacked the umbrella definition of our emotional wellbeing but Africa did not just discover mental health. We’ve always known what it means to carry emotional burdens. We’ve always had language for grief, spiritual unrest, and
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