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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
Is Suicide Always About Depression? A Conversation Rooted in Truth
We miss the impact of spiritual distortion where vulnerability is seen as weakness, and suffering is framed as punishment or a test of our faith. We miss the weight of cultural conditioning where children are taught to suppress their emotions, and adults are praised for endurance over healing. We miss the reality of intergenerational trauma where silence is inherited, and shame is passed down like a family heirloom.
Fire on the Mountain - The Fire We’re Ignoring
We see the smoke in rising suicide rates, in children who retreat into devices, in families who speak but do not connect. We hear the crackle in the silence after a child says, “I’m fine,” when they’re not. We feel the heat in the grief that comes too late, when we realize we missed the signs.
How to maintain an emotionally healthy love life
It was evident that these people did not want me to be part of their life story, but I was too invested in the idea of loving them, feeling like, "Well, at least I like them and I am good to them. They'll finally notice and reciprocate," but to what end? That's a question I never asked myself.
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