Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. – Max Ehrmann When I was a child, my mom used to…
Dancing
As a follow up to last week’s post, today’s guest post is by my twin sister, Sharon Malonza. If you’ve…
Where I End and Others Begin
In the last couple of months I’ve had the most insightful conversations with the people I love and spend a…
TENDING TO MYSELF
I’m allowing myself space to tend to my beginnings. This means that I am trying to be gentle with myself…
THE AFTER LIFE
Death leaves a lingering taste in your mouth. I suppose this is why the seemingly African tradition around grievers is…
SURRENDER
I’ve been trying to be more deliberate about rest and taking care of myself. Deliberate, because rest for me has…
ON THE OTHER SIDE
‘… that there is something on the other side of endurance.’ I read this as part of Aleya Kassam’s meditations…
THROUGH THE ‘OTHER’
For a while now I’ve been thinking about/ around what taking care of myself looks like. I’ve zeroed in on…
LANGUAGE AS SELF- PRESERVATION
Grief is not language I use to describe how I feel. Between the long instagram captions and countless podcast episodes…
MY HEART’S NUDGE
People pull you out of yourself. – Binyavanga Wainaina The first time I read this and every time I remembered…
Blooming Butterfly 