Author: Linda
I am a people-person - taking a people-first attitude - with over 10 years experience in leadership, people management and personal development.
I grew up surrounded by adults with poor mental-health, and who were unfortunate enough to receive very little, or no help to enable healing.
Therefore, I have spent most of my private life researching mental health and mentoring young-adults and adults who have been affected by mental illnesses during the course of their lives.
I believe that a background with mental illness can limit most people - even the strongest - due to the trauma and tabu associated with mental illnesses - meaning that people with great potential never reach their full potential in society.
I also believe that mentoring, accompanied with systematic, structured support systems, can save lives and help direct energy into empowering endeavors that can add value in society.
We don’t know them – and yet
I don’t know these women, yet, my heart is broken by their deaths. We have never met the children and they mean nothing to us. Why then does it feel like our collective souls were dragged into the children’s death. You know nothing about these murderous men or […]
21 days as the Beginning of New Beginnings
Have you ever heard that it takes 21 days to change or set a habit? Have you tried it and has it worked? It is a lie. The lie started in 1960 when the Dr. Maltz published his thoughts on behavior change in a book called Psycho-Cybernetics (audiobook). […]
Does Beauty protect us from mental illness?
Does beauty protect us from mental illness? This question was asked at a mental health conference I once attended. A speaker spoke about beauty, the lack of beauty and its effect on mental health. It reminded me of the story below, and the lessons I learned about beauty. […]
1:59 things you need to know before you turn 34
So Eliud Kipchoge ran 42km in under 2 minutes. He is 34 years old – an age when most people have given up, and are just pushing life (kusukumana na maisha). Some well-wishers even advice us to just lie down and die after 30 – especially if you’re […]
7 things to unLearn to Prevent Suicide
Did you know that every 40 seconds, someone, somewhere in their world takes their own life? Count that. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . .40. In recent years, I have thought a […]
Borderline Life – Borderline Relationships
My maternal aunt was on medication for as long as I can remember. For madness. That is what people said, even her relatives. Ni wazimu. She is mad. When she didn’t take her medications, as she sometimes forgot or refused; she became totally unmanageable. Unkempt, inward focused so […]
A Letter on Consistent Passion in Relationships?
On Twitter, I do these theme weeks that simply raise a question and let people vote. Now, I don’t have so many followers, but has a challenge such as few followers ever discouraged me? No. The hardest part of a journey is the start, right? So, if you […]
Schizoid & Schizotypal PDs in Relationships
Today is my birthday. I do very little to celebrate my birthday. Unfortunately, I think the day I was born is so insignificant, it needs no attention. Even my mother, the one who went through the infamous labour pains, does not remember the day I was born. I […]
This Week Briefly
I sometimes feel like life makes up ways to interrupt itself. Like life itself feels itself moving too fast for me, it makes me pause, breath and appreciate yesterday. I am at a new job. If you ever been at a new job, you know how minutes spin […]
Paranoid Personality Disorder in Relationships
In previous posts in this series, we listed the Personality Disorders that can make it impossible to achieve stable mental health in relationships. We have done Antisocial Personality Disorder (ASPD), Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD) and OCD vs OCPD. These three personality disorders are also listed as basic culprits […]