Happy Birthday Auntie Gloria!
Today is the 59th birthday of a beloved member of the Above Whispers family, Mrs Gloria Ogunbadejo. For those of you who have just started visiting our website, Auntie Gloria writes a weekly column for Above Whispers called Making it Better. I have known Auntie Gloria for at least twenty-four years. We met in London […]
MAKING IT BETTER: Hip Hip Hoorah….It’s Another Birthday!
I was going to start this piece with an apology and to beg your indulgence for my seeming lack of humility in some parts of the write up. However as I continue to write I realise that I actually don’t feel any remorse or a need to apologise for the pride I feel as a […]
MAKING IT BETTER: Invest In Your Mental Health
This is Mental Health Awareness week and is as good a time as any to focus and bring attention to this very important and hugely misunderstood area of our health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines health as the state of complete physical, mental and social well being and not merely the absence of disease. […]
MAKING IT BETTER: Are We Burying Each Other Alive? – A Clarion Call For Our Collective Consciousness
I am always struck by the numbers of comments and responses on Nigerian social media or in particular the print media on anything to do with a scandal, politics and maybe religion. They sometimes run into the hundreds and customarily after the initial few responses that actually speak to the original topic or story, the […]
MAKING IT BETTER: Pray, Sing And Share With Me
Hello beloved readers, over the past few weeks I have had spiritual stirrings within me and having just completed writing two funerals, learning about the death of two colleagues, hearing about quite a number of celebrity deaths here in the UK and particularly reading the recent wonderful, moving, exquisite tribute to the late Ex Deputy […]
MAKING IT BETTER: The Psychological Meaning Behind Hoarding
Hoarding has been a hidden and mostly misunderstood disorder for many years. It actually is a much bigger and complex condition than is actually known. People who hoard are on a continuum. The spectrum goes from the person who can’t stop or curb their retail binging which could include clothing, shoes, bags, household items; to […]
MAKING IT BETTER: The impact of Anger and Hatred on your Well Being
Anger and hatred are negative states of the mind that destroy our happiness. As a people we are not very good at letting go of anger and its corresponding states. We plot, encourage and condone this emotion in ourselves and in each other. All negative mental states act as obstacles to our happiness, but we […]
MAKING IT BETTER: Good Friendships: An Actual Lifeline
When you have friends, real friends, living or dead, it doesn’t matter where you go, you always take them with you in your heart. I don’t have a lot of friends (by choice), just a select few. I have concluded that it’s quite possible due to the nature of the work I do which requires […]
MAKING IT BETTER: Negotiating Loss and Bereavement
‘You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same, nor would you want to.’ Kubler-Ross & Kesler In the course […]
MAKING IT BETTER: Does Mental Health mean madness to you?
Ok, let’s keep it real now. Be honest, what was/is your gut feeling/reaction when you see or hear these words, Mental Health. Does your stomach turn? do you cringe, turn away, disassociate from it? Do you immediately think it has nothing to do with you? It’s something that happens to others? Do you think it […]
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