Honest, warm, no-jargon articles on mental health, burnout, self-esteem, and relationships — written for young Nigerian women, by people who get it.
⚠️ Trigger Warning: Suicidal Ideation. This piece highlights a journey through grief, suicidal ideation, and healing. If you're experiencing grief or suicidal thoughts, Uwam provides a directory of professionals you can speak to, including emergency helplines.
Five repeatable habits to help boost your oxytocin levels to promote physical and emotional wellbeing and flourishing.
Oxytocin is the chemical built to connect us to other people, and somewhere between chasing achievement and staring at our phones, most of us have let it run dangerously low. So let's talk about it.
In the first part of this piece, we explored self-unkindness and self-compassion and its 3 doorways according to Dr. Kristin Neff: self-kindness, common humanity, and mindfulness. In this part, we will look at practical tips on practicing self-compassion.
Understanding Self-Unkindness and Self-Compassion: How harsh self-talk harms us and how practicing mindfulness, common humanity, and self-kindness (self-compassion) can stop self-unkindness and improve wellbeing.
To be romantically independent, you would need to put in the work to generate love and romance on your own, and if someone offers you genuine romance, you’re able to detect and accept it. But how exactly do you generate your own romance?
My argument, is that more women need to become romantically independent. We have done great work in becoming financially independent, but now, it’s time to move on to freedom in other areas too, one of which is romance.
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