Blogs
- Home /
- Blogs
Trauma Wounds: Hidden Aggression in Relationships
“If it is a shallow relationship, when it falls apart, the pain will be slight. And the joy that relationship brings each day will also be slight. It is precisely because one can gain the courage to enter into deeper relationships by having confidence in others that the joy of one’s interpersonal relations can grow, and one’s joy in life can grow, too”
Read More
GRIEF: A PAIN THAT NEVER ENDS
When I was putting down the points for today’s blog, I didn’t think an event would come up and plunge me into grief. I was going to analyse the loss suffered in the relationships I wrote about previously. Then, the train attack happened on Monday and it changed everything.
Read More
TRAUMA OF ABANDONMENT.
Psychology is a very interesting subject. I still can’t believe I rejected it for my first degree. What did I know then? We barely had any form of career counselling . Everybody wanted to be everything except a psychologist. And then, life happened and I wanted to understand the human mind a bit more. What is most intriguing is the research after research, theories after theories that sometimes is meant to just explain a single phenomenon. Makes you wonder a bit about, the creation of man. We really cannot comprehend God.
Read More
CHILDHOOD TRAUMA: THE MAKING OF AN ANGRY ADULT
Someone described anger as ‘unmet expectations’. I thought this definition seemed really apt. I mean, if I expect my husband to show up at 7pm for dinner and he doesn’t, I would be a bit upset, but I would get really angry if he showed up an hour later, without an explanation or an apology. My expectations of ‘being valued, being respected’ would definitely be unmet.
Read More
CAN FAITH HEAL TRAUMA?
Does Faith make everything Right? This piece is not about questioning faith, its also not about religion. Its basically me inviting you to take a deeper look into what constitutes true wellbeing.
Read More
WHEN TRAUMA SWITCHES OFF YOUR BRAIN
I always silently feel proud of the fact that I can write, it comes naturally, the story line flows from one line of thought to another. So when I decided I would start a blog , I didn’t think it would be such a task. I already had a food blog I had been working on. I just wanted to make this new blog about psychological experiences. I figured, since It’s what I do everyday with my clients, it should be easy, except everything in me that could create a good story went to sleep.
Read More
The Locust Bean Stew: Delicious doesn't have to smell nice.
The Yorubas have two types of stews, one that is barely fried and made with vegetable oil and the other called locust bean stew, fried with with palm oil and is a perfect sauce for rice, boiled yam etc.
Read More
GRAPEFRUIT:THERAPY or NOT?
I stopped at Mallam Bello’s place to buy pineapple and behold right in front of me was one of my favourite member of the CITRUS family: Grapefruit
Read More
WHITE SOUP SPICE THERAPY
I am a soup lover, you know the kind of person that would use one spoon of swallow to eat a whole pot of soup. I marvel at people who just put a cooking spoon of soup on their plate of swallow, how does the swallow even move?
Read MoreTags
- Abusive-Parents
- Ambiguos-Grief
- Anger
- Angry-Adults
- Angry-Child
- Angry-Youths
- Bad-Parenting
- Bereavement
- Child-Abuse
- Childhood
- Dark-Triads
- End-Childhood-Trauma
- Endless-Pain
- Fear
- Grief
- Grief-and-Fear
- Grief-Counseliling
- Grief-Reservoire
- Grief-Therapy
- Grieving-in-Fear
- Machiavellianism
- Margaret-Olokpo
- Margo
- Margocounselling
- Mental-Health
- Mothers-Day
- Mothers-Mental-Health
- Pet-Loss-and-Grief
- Psychopath
- Psychopathy
- Sadism
- Sadist
- Subconscious
- Switch-on-Your-Brain
- Trauma
- Trauma-Counselling
- Trauma-Therapy
- Unconscious
- Unhealed-Trauma
- Unhealed-Wounds
- We-Can-Do-Better
- Wounds
- Writer's-Block
- Writers