by Reson | Sep 6, 2021 | Uncategorized
Gone are the days when you would eat your ugali and sukumawiki and sleep soundly. We would appreciate the kind of life that our parents were able to give us regardless of whether we walked five kilometres to school or lived in a mud house. It didn’t matter. It only...
by Reson | Aug 24, 2021 | Counselling/Therapy
Killings. Suicide. Domestic violence. Police brutality. Troubled marriages. We could go on counting. Horrendous things are happening right, left and centre. The moment you switch on the TV, you want to put it off immediately. The news we see every day is a shred of...
by Reson | Aug 9, 2021 | Counselling/Therapy
The other day, I asked my friend if she could do me a favour. Before I even explained further, she objected. “I have anxiety and I cannot leave my house. I hope your favour doesn’t involve me going outside” She explained how the Covid-19 situation has affected her...
by Reson | Jul 26, 2021 | Counselling/Therapy
From time to time, I hear people using the terms mental health and mental illness interchangeably. While the line between them is not crystal clear, they are definitely not one and the same thing. There is a difference between mental health and mental illness. Once we...
by Reson | Jun 5, 2021 | Uncategorized
MAKING MENTAL HEALTH A PRIORITY FOR WOMEN! According to the journal Action steps for improving women’s health “rates of anxiety disorders are two to three times higher in women than men; this includes post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), which affects women more...
