Mental Health
The Price of Silence: How Women Can Inherit Trauma They Didn’t Create
Silence is often celebrated in African families as a symbol of dignity, restraint, and respectability. But silence also has a darker side. It is in silence that abuse festers, secrets calcify, and wounds are passed from one generation to the next. What remains unsaid between mothers and daughters does not disappear; it lingers in the […]
A Gentle Reminder for the Woman Who Holds It All
There’s a version of you the world sees, the woman with the pressed dress, the brave smile, the plan. She’s good at holding things together. She knows how to keep her voice steady when she wants to scream. She knows how to fix things for everyone else, the friends who call crying at midnight, the […]