Editor’s Letter: Bossing Up and Standing In Solidarity Against Gender Based Violence.
November is a reset month. It’s the second last month of the year, and we have decided this is the perfect moment to take on the resolutions we set for the New Year NOW! Why wait for tomorrow when we can start today? The chances are by the time…
Bite Size: I am grateful for the Gift of Life and More…
I sometimes find myself repeating the same gratitudes over and over, “I am grateful for the gift of life, I am grateful for my health, I am grateful for my family, and for my loved ones, etc…” And yes, I totally understand that these are fundamental gratitudes, but I…
What Simone Biles & Naomi Osaka have taught us about mental health
The past few weeks have been great for mental health awareness. In large part thanks to the honesty of two world class athletes Naomi Osaka and Simone Biles. If you somehow missed what has been going on. The two athletes (at different times and places) announced that they would…
Editors letter: A moment of reflection
To say the month of June has been hard would be an understatement. As someone who is accustomed to hardships, I thought (quit wrongly and perhaps naively so), that the hard times were behind me. But if life teaches us anything, it is that no matter how many times…
Why we need to normalize mental health in our communities
Over the past years, mental health has been on everyone’s agenda. But what is mental health and why did it take a global pandemic to wake people up to its importance? The world health organization defines mental health as “a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his…
Postpartum depression; what it is and how to see the signs
Of all the things that could go wrong during and after having a baby. Depression, or rather postpartum depression was the last thing that I thought could affect it. Not because I thought I was immune to this commune depression that affects millions of women around the world. But…