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MENTAL HEALTH! WHO CARES? WHEN MUMMY IS STRONG!

I wrote this piece some years back in commemoration of Mothers day for Jewels Leading Lights Academy Magazine. The month of May 2022 is observed as Mental Health Awareness month and mother’s day was celebrated just last week. And so, I am posting this again, because the points raised are poignant for an increasing stressful world for mothers and their mental health. I hope you find something helpful as you read on.

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”

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.

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.

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.