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Let me start with a bold opening statement by saying “YOUR CO-WORKERS ARE NOT AUTOMATICALLY YOUR FRIENDS.” Beautiful friendships among co-workers can be found a lot in Hollywood movies and my favorite is the movie, the Intern. But unfortunately in a real life setting, a lot of us struggle to make meaningful relationships at work, […]

We are not inspired naturally to make friends with ourselves. The concept of a healthy friendship has always been centered around the act of reaching out. Very little is often centered around the act of reaching within. When it comes to self-friendship or self love, we often leave that concept for those embarking on a

The formation of childhood friendships isn’t as complicated and “ intentionally” demanding like adulthood friendships. It’s much easy if you ask me or perhaps anybody who can recall their childhood experiences when it comes to friendship. It was so easy to classify all our relationships under the umbrella called friendship.People were automatically our friends because

Nothing hurts more than the end of once a good friendship. “It was fun whist it lasted.” Someone once told me. The memories of a once good friendship sometimes can hurt even when healing is perfected. You think about it and you start to ask so many questions. You go through different and complex phases

DAY 1. BUILDING INTENTIONAL FRIENDSHIP- THE GRASS IS GREENER WHERE YOU WATER IT. I grew up watching how my parents nurtured some relationships in their lives. Our home was an open invitation to aunties and uncles- people who were not related by blood but by the stronger bond of another blissful relationship called Friendship. Being

Boundaries as I described in one of my poems are rest stops in relationships. They are not fences or walls that prevent people from getting to us but rather they determine how far one can cross a certain “line” when it comes to our interactions with them. Communicating boundaries can be a scary place to

Between myself and her I don’t know who comes out often to say “ I miss you or I love you” the most. Her is the name of the close friends I have experienced and still navigating a massive transitioning in friendship with. First I use to think it was me, probably I heard myself

There are days I am not sure about this Jesus’ thing. To be honest, there are more of such days than there are few. And my Faith becomes dead for days, wrapped in the linen of intellectual knowledge and buried in a dark tomb of myown distress with a heavy stone of doubt rolled over

A lot of Christian centered women conferences blindly project the proverbs 31 woman as the standard biblical reference to biblical womanhood but throughout the Bible, there are stories of women flirts like Ruth, Prostitutes like Rahab, Slaves like Hagar, Attention seekers like Sarah, Sex addicts like Gomer, Unlovable wives like Leah,  Traumatic rape victims like Dinah,

A lot of people will totally avoid the “feelings”talk,especially when it comes to Christians. But this is where I come in as a young single Christian woman, a mental & emotional health advocate navigating my walk with for God as well as navigating my emotional journey. The problem is we turn to believe that Faith