Mental Health & Wellness Articles

When you feel tired, ensure you rest. Taking a break is not abandoning your goals.” Year in year out, we set goals and make resolutions with the hope that the year ahead will mark a turning point in our lives. Many of us are very optimistic and confident at the beginning of the year but few […]

Love is a beautiful thing and so is marriage and can be a source of happiness and fulfillment if nurtured well. While falling in love and getting married can be nice and easy, maintaining a healthy marriage can be hard. Raising children, work, finances, personal struggles are among factors that can strain a relationship. Most couples

The year is about to end and 2023 is already here with us. While there are those still celebrating, the wise are reflecting and taking stock of 2022. It’s vital to always reflect, introspect, and do a self-audit of the year that was. How did you perform and what are the obstacles faced and lessons learnt

Nowadays, it’s increasingly hard to start and grow a healthy relationship together. Factually, many new relationships never see it past the third month. Mind you, those that go for 3 months or more are the exception rather than the rule. These are the good relationships where the partners are somewhat mature and therefore more tolerant with

If you had a nervous breakdown today or a loved one did, where will you go to seek professional help? Did the name of any mental health professional come to mind and I’m not talking about the spiritual counselling that you can readily access from your pastor. That kind of counselling targets spiritual issues. I’m also

What is Anxiety Disorder? Anxiety is a normal response to a stressful situation which helps one to remain alert and ready to respond to any dangerous situation. It is an anticipation of something that will happen in the future. Anxiety is characterized by fear, muscle tension and avoidance behavior(phobias). Fear is often an emotion that manifests

How to deal with loss of employment Losing a job can be utterly devastating especially in this tough times. It’s easy to feel that your world is collapsing. Equally, it’s tempting to imagine that youĺl never be able to secure another job that is as good as the one you previously held. Such thoughts can yield 

There is always a strong link between mental wellness and living a peaceful life characterized with contentment. Inevitably, where there is peace and contentment, joy abides in abundance. That said, it is also true that emotional baggage and unhealed trauma(emotional wounds) can be a barrier to realizing mental wellness as they suck peace and calm out

Can you cut off family? Like, can you wake up one morning and decide to block your parents, siblings, relatives and village mates especially when you feel as though there presence is not good for your mental health? Honestly, I must confess that cutting off family feels illegal. I mean, who even does that. You must

Did you know? Loneliness can literally kill you. I know you are wondering how’s that even possible. It’s not even a disease. Surprisingly, as absurd as it sounds, loneliness is detrimental to your health and in severe cases, it can be fatal. For your information, for people aged 60 and above, loneliness is now categorized as