Tag: mental-health
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The Sex Lives of African Women by Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah
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…
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A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
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,…
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Deep Work by Cal Newport
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…
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Awareness by Anthony De Mello
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…
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