Eight years ago, on a rainy Tuesday evening in July, I left therapy and, in the quiet of a cab ride home, captured my therapist’s words before they slipped away into a moment in time. Flashforward to July 4, 2025, and my husband and I celebrated 1.5 years of marriage and 5.5 years together. My … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: A Love That Heals
Category: Mental Health
I am a WIP on the road to recovery from PTSD.
I also have OCD, and every now and then my Anxiety threatens to overwhelm me.
My mental illnesses do not make me any less human/worthy/awesome than my mentally fit counterparts. I want anyone struggling with their mental health to know it is okay not to be okay. That there is nothing to be ashamed about in asking for help. That in fact there is great strength in the vulnerability, courage and honesty it takes to accept that you need help and to go ahead and ask for it.
Through this category I intend to do everything in my power to destigmatise conversations around mental health because every mind matters.
World Suicide Prevention Day 2025
Every year on September 10, the world pauses for World Suicide Prevention Day. It is a reminder that we can all come together, not just with words but with real action, compassion and care to help prevent suicide. This observance began in 2003, and more than twenty years later it feels just as important, maybe … Continue reading World Suicide Prevention Day 2025
Mental Health Monday: this is me trying
They told me all of my cages were mentalSo I got wasted like all my potential That lyric is from this is me trying, a track off Taylor Swift’s eighth studio album folklore, which won the Grammy for Album of the Year. I adore everything about the song, but right now that particular lyric is … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: this is me trying
Mental Health Awareness Month starring Steph and Joy
How do you define mental wellness? I would define mental wellness as knowing how to cope with different emotions at different times since your mentality is connected to how you think or feel and how you manage the different stresses and what life throws at you. 2. Can you share any habits or routines you … Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Month starring Steph and Joy
Five Bad Days
If you read my inaugural Mental Health Monday post of the year (Mental Health Monday: I Am Fine), then you know I spent two nights at Chiromo Lane Medical Centre in January. During those two days and two nights I had nothing but time to take stock of the choices I had made that led … Continue reading Five Bad Days
Mental Health Awareness Month starring Hopie, Sophie, Fifi Fiona and Weezy
How do you define mental wellness? To me, mental wellness is all about being in tune with my emotional and physical health. I try to notice how changes around me can impact my feelings and how well I handle those shifts. 2. Can you share any habits or routines you follow to nurture your mental … Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Month starring Hopie, Sophie, Fifi Fiona and Weezy
Mental Health Awareness Month starring Kare, Janet N, Aud, Nyokabi and Sherine
How do you define mental wellness? Mental wellness, for me, entails a sense of inner peace and feeling emotionally resilient enough to get through life’s stresses. It means I’m thriving in life - not merely surviving. ☺️ 2. Can you share any habits or routines you follow to nurture your mental health? Setting boundaries, particularly … Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Month starring Kare, Janet N, Aud, Nyokabi and Sherine
Mental Health Awareness Month
For anyone who may not be aware, May is Mental Health Awareness Month. Also referred to as ‘Mental Health Month’, it has been observed in May in the United States since 1949, reaching millions of people in the United States through the media, local events, and screenings. With time the month has shifted from being … Continue reading Mental Health Awareness Month
Mental Health Monday: Attention. Belonging. Consequences. Depth.
April 7th is World Health Day, a global health awareness day celebrated every year under the sponsorship of the World Health Organization (WHO), as well as other related organizations. From its inception at the First Health Assembly in 1948 and since taking effect in 1950, the celebration has aimed to create awareness of a specific … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: Attention. Belonging. Consequences. Depth.
Mental Health Monday: The Woman In The Mirror
I do not know exactly when it happened, but somewhere along the way in 2024 I stopped seeing myself in the woman in the mirror. The About Me section on the blog, which I wrote in August 2018 before launching Lwile the Leo on the last day of Leo season, reads: In very many ways … Continue reading Mental Health Monday: The Woman In The Mirror
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