Taking this route helped in my battle with addiction, mental health

People whose work includes serving others owe it to themselves to be the best version of themselves, but the rest of us owe it to them to show up as the best versions of ourselves for them.

Sfebe is a word that has for years been used to make women toe the line, a shaky line drawn, guarded and maintained by patriarchy and the fragility that informs the idea of masculinity.

My arrival into adulthood has been a series of failed and unfulfilled dreams. It has been a series of challenges and a lot of learning. When I was younger I imagined it would be freedom, that it would be the time to do what one wanted whenever one felt like it. To discover that responsibilities and lack of money would deny you the freedom was the hardest letdown of all.

A friend of mine said to me the other day that while living through a pandemic is scary, he’s happy to be going through it as an adult, learning and observing on an intellectual level.

For years now, science has been saying that some people who battle obesity have arrived at that point because of trauma.

The last time I saw Kgomotso Bob Mabena was on October 24 2018. We had been having a lot of meetings prior to that one, but that one would be our last.

According to Wikipedia, "humiliation is the degradation of pride which creates shame or leads to a state of being humbled or reduced to lowliness or submission.

I may not be having it the worst of everyone right now but I can assure you it is pretty bad. I wanted to share some of the things that have helped me calm down during this time.

One of the effects of the lockdown has been me watching a lot of television, Netflix to be precise.