Usually when something peculiar happens to us, the mind is quick to point out the role we played in the event. In as much as it is okay to introspect and go through the events so we can heal, we need to be careful how we blame ourselves for whatever traumatic events we may have

There would be days you will feel like you can’t go on. Days you feel like the road is long. There would be days you will be discouraged and you may want to give up. One day, you are energized and you feel like you can move a mountain and the next day you can’t

One of the symptoms of trauma is depression. It’s not news that some people who have gone through an unchecked traumatic experience may end up with depression. A good number of people having a hard time with depression end up binge eating. Binge eating is the consumption of large quantity of food in a short

A lot of people come into therapy wishing that their pain can go away instantly. It’s almost like they expect their therapist to hold a wand and like magic make all the pain they feel or ever felt disappear. Truthfully, we wish it was something we can do but unfortunately, we live in the real

When my client told me how he survived all these years all by himself, It dawned on me how many more men were out there surviving all on their own. These men eventually become emotionally unavailable to everything and everyone around them. This is because they have learned to soak the emotions in and made

This is a gentle reminder that men also get traumatized. They also get hurt. They get confused. They also want to cry. Men also need a shoulder. They also need support. A man came into therapy with me a few years back and it took five sessions to get him to open up. It then