Self-Reflection
A Note to Fellow Empaths: Being Wronged by People You Help is God’s Way of Teaching You to Finally Love Yourself
It’s a story I am intimately familiar with because I have witnessed it in countless people I have met throughout my life and lived this reality myself. There are some who make it their purpose to give everything to others—to…
The Pursuit of Happiness Goes Through the Road of Sadness
I thought my rendezvous with soul-sucking tribulation ended five years ago, after enduring more than two years of homelessness, it seemed that all the scars I harbored throughout my life finally had a meaning when I found love in the…
Follow Your Arrow: The Profundity of Kacey Musgraves and the Redemption Songs She Sings
Life is never straight but a series of twists and turns where one day we are standing on solid ground only for the floor to crack beneath us. Most of the time, these unexpected developments are painful as hell, the…
What Was Not Done for Us…
Even when we forget, we always remember. The painful memories we stuffed deep inside and the traumas we blurred away with the awful benevolence of time live on even as we pretend we are alright only to be triggered by…
This Wisdom that Arrived Upon My Heart: Coping is Prison, Feeling is Freedom
You never know what freedom feels like until you escape the walls that have kept you in bondage for so long. I write this not from a place of piety as if I have life figured out but as a…
Pains of My Parents: My Journey to Break the Stronghold of Generational Traumas
It hit me like a ton of bricks while driving Uber a couple of days ago, pains that I locked away and sorrows I barricaded in the deepest recesses of my mind came rushing out like the Ghion River during…
BREAKING! A Tsunami of Truths Unleashed at MedhaniAlem Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church
Come on, admit it! Some of you came rushing in here to see a “meltdown” thinking that I was back on the same doomsday scenario that I was warning about three months ago didn’t you? You just knew that my…
I’mPerfect: It is Time to Heal Thyself
I remember it like it was yesterday, I had just gotten 4.5 stars out of 5 on my fourth grade English assignment and as soon as I saw glowing remarks from my teacher, the first person I wanted to show…
YP not MP: the Guzo (Journey) to Healing Starts When You Learn to Say No
Tell me if this sounds familiar, you are on a trip somewhere and someone in the car wants to listen to a podcast. Even though you are the one driving and you really wanted to listen to music, you consent…
