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Read Moreby Pelumi Shittu What do you do when you miss a loved one? What do you do when you sorrowfully remember the death of a loved one and wish you…
Read Moreby Ado Aminu My mother, if she remembers this incident [from what I shared yesterday], might muse not without a certain amount of wonder, about how I have contrived, or…
Read Moreby Damola Morenikeji One treasured part of the work we do at Joy, Inc. is the ease at which people find clarity to make important decisions after each session. Either it…
Read Moreby Avviva Oluwaseun There's an innate need in everyone to dominate. I believe it's the foundation of all human conflict, the mother of "ego." Yet, it has influenced many great and…
Read More“Good things happen to good people” You have heard that before, haven’t you? So, what do you do when life breaks your heart? This conversation explores it, with calm, and…
Read Moreby Fatima Allahnanan Mohammed I can never forget my first encounter with “Miss Red”. She showed up in red, the colour I hate. My heart skipped the first day I…
Read Moreby Fatima Allahnanan "You shouldn’t have given it to him!" That was the reply I got when I sent the gateman to buy me sanitary pad. Why is my period a…
Read MoreI don't believe that time alone heals all things. I think that time meets our decisions, the environment, and aspirations to make things better. When people base their actions on…
Read Moreby Ore Fakorede There’s a foolish pride in pushing ourselves as far as we think we can go. The thing is, our limits are usually not that far off, so we…
Read Moreby Arit Okpo Woke up feeling grey… Spirit itchy… upset and not sure why. I take the time to think through it and realise my spirit is chafing a bit. Realise…
Read MoreWe seem to have a consensus that success is defined differently by each person, and what we all consider important differ. Sometimes, it's better to take this assumption further and…
Read Moreby Avviva Oluwaseun Is there really room to stop and smell the roses when the end of the road isn't defined? The uncertainty of the end or how, is the…
Read Moreby Avviva Oluwaseun I feel trapped. I feel like I'm being held to a high standard, but it has to be defined by them; I'm not sure I even recognise…
Read Moreby Paul Jarvis In Sanskrit, there’s a term called 'Mudita,' and there’s no equivalent word in English. Essentially, it means to have sympathetic or unselfish joy for others—regardless of where…
Read More(by Paul Jarvis) Exterior mindfulness (some call it minimalism) only works when we solve for enough. It’s not just a matter of having less stuff or having nothing or having…
Read MoreDoes it truly need to be written the way you have? Right before you send the next email, go through it again. Is it written with compassion and consciousness? Check…
Read More(by Ado Aminu) This is how you do life, You cry until you don’t anymore, You carry the weight of your fallen body on tired shoulders and knees whose skin…
Read MoreI had just returned from a series of meetings and was physically exhausted. I felt like I was sleep-deprived and could use a good sleep. Then the call came in,…
Read Moreby Chidiogo Akunyili Do you remember me? I can be heard in silence. I can be felt in breath. I am. Do you remember why you walk the earth? I…
Read Moreby Moyinoluwa Okunloye Why this happens, I still don’t know. You wake up early in the morning and you are already out of energy! I don’t get it. Isn't one…
Read Moreby Oluseun Onigbide This powerful paragraph from Autobiography of Martin Luther King, one of my favourite books creates leaps of joy in me: “O God, help me to see myself in…
Read Moreby Faith I had the opportunity to attend the Ivy League of all Ivy Leagues. Imaginably, I was thrilled to be moving across the country, starting my first semester and…
Read Moreby Damola Morenikeji Yesterday, as I laid on the bed, after meditating, I started thinking of the person I am becoming. I caught myself in this thought and stopped. I…
Read Moreby Ore Fakorede It's not that I don't care, it's that it's always up to me to decide what to care about. In the plainest term, here's what would happen…
Read Moreby Jonathan Brakarsh Most of us are striving to be stronger, smarter, cooler, richer, more beautiful and many other things. When we step out, presenting ourselves to the world as…
Read Morecontributed by Kui Wamithi The more I proceed through this journey called life, the more I learn that people need room. They need room to grow. Room to figure themselves…
Read More(contributed by Francesca Onomarie Uriri) Recently, my brother had a health challenge that was frightening, debilitating, and quite frankly, difficult to describe. As I kept vigil by his bedside I…
Read MoreThe past few days a strange cloud has hovered my spirit. I struggled to report to work and when I did, tardily, even my attire conveyed reluctance. I dreaded staff…
Read MoreWhen I came out of secondary (high) school in 2000, I was 15. That meant that, though I had excellent grades, I couldn’t get into university in Nigeria, where the…
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