lifewithfelly

Tag: mental-health

  • The Messy Middle – a lifewithfelly newsletter

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    I drafted my newsletter yesterday before my bedtime which was a disciplined 9pm by the way. I had a restful sleep, and woke up energized only to wake up to the sad headlines on the internet about the young lady that was raped in Cornell university. My blood boiled, I was disgusted not just at…

  • The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah

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    The Sex Lives of African Women was, without exaggeration, one of the most beautiful books I’ve ever read. Not because it was easy. Not because it was comforting. But because it was real — raw, unapologetic, and deeply human. I came into it with assumptions I didn’t even know I carried: that sexuality for African women was…

  • Deep Work by Cal Newport

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    From the very first page, I felt seen. Not because the book accused me, but because it named something I’d been ignoring: that my phone isn’t a tool I use — it’s a master I serve. I check it while waiting for the kettle to boil. I check it while walking to the store. I check it…

  • Awareness by Anthony De Mello

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    It wasn’t loud. It didn’t demand change. It didn’t tell me to fix myself, to meditate more, to become “better.” Instead, it simply asked: Are you awake?And in that quiet question, something shifted. The book is a gentle call to look inward, not to fight who you are, but to understand it. To notice the…

  • A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

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    A New Earth isn’t just a book I read- it’s one I’ll return to again and again, not just this year, but for the rest of my life. It was a wake-up call: a gentle but firm invitation to wake up to myself- not the story I tell about who I am, but the quiet,…