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2020 in Retrospect - The Good, Bad and UGLY

*Coughs lightly* A warm welcome to you, because we all haven't been here since 2018  *avoids eye contact*, I'm really excited to be here and ya'll should lay hands on me later as we all pray that I continue. THE GOOD... 2020 has been a rollercoaster for me mehn... on 31st of December 2019, everyone was doing their own thing and the only thing on my mind was "God, I want love", "God, I want to be loved". I entered 2020 with faith that it was going to happen, then boom!! February gan, someone came along... this sister couldnt contain her excitement o. Let me shock you, this relationship ended in June because of some very useless reasons I will explain later. THE BAD... Fast forward to july, I lost my job but I tried to squeeze myself in the establishment somehow because I wasnt ready to start over(Covid had nothing on me here cause it was a government establishment that rendered essential services, but my contract with them had ended and they w...

Natural ways to cope with anxiety

HOLLA!!!! I'm so excited it's another month ( happy new month !), which means I can smell my birthday *Yay!*. In the spirit of this excitement, I discovered something for myself, and I decided to share! Trust your girl to always share. For one who likes to be certain, it's quite difficult not to be anxious. Someone who likes to plan, and by all means desire certainty can never mistake "fear" in her stomach for "butterflies". This is me now! Recently, if anxiety could be measured then mine would have gotten way past normal, series of event keeps giving birth to new ones, my head kept spinning until I pressed PAUSE !  I had to search through what actually works for me and I came up with eight natural ways that I'm going to share in a couple of minutes.  What is anxiety? Anxiety in actual sense,  is an unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension, and concern for uncertain events. When it becomes consistent with its cohorts (pa...

Life Update #1

Hello from the other side! *laughs*... Ok issa life update, just so u know what's up. So my blog is two months and thirteen days old and I'm super excited, like that's one of my goals for this year 2018, and it's been checked-i mean crushed!. Don't mind me o jare. I'm still in my coner, jejely doing the small work God has put in our hands and we're gradually kicking. I have a much bigger goal for July and for now it's the only thing on my mind, I'll not spill the beans yet, if you know, you know. Also, I've been reading this book by Joyce Meyer titled MANAGING YOUR EMOTIONS .....it's really amazing, and I suggest you read it too. By the way, I wanted to pull the "by-the-bus" photoshoot and trust me I did, even if I wasn't sure I had the guts to. Like I was contemplating wether or not to do it because everything in Benin is always DIFFERENT, and it'll end up becoming a SHOW!. but I did any way and there.....you have it!...