It wasn’t the heat of Garissa that sent a young Kiswahili teacher fleeing from the classroom and back to Nairobi less than a year after his appointment. It was his love of journalism, a career he always wanted to follow, despite being trained as a teacher. The youngster felt he would ‘waste away’ in North …
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Jeff Waweru is a constant climber of Mt Kenya, the second highest mountain in Africa. Jeff also is a trained filmmaker, an artist, a web designer, and a painter all rolled into one. One of his passions is climbing Mt Kenya, which he admires once in a while from his art studio in his house …
Despite the best will in the world, meetings do not always run according to plan. You can prepare an agenda, and have a very good chairperson, and things can still go wrong. Sometimes participants just do not want to cooperate. They may behave in ways that are deliberately designed to disrupt the meeting or are …
By ‘Mark and Angel’ Today, let me share another powerful story and reminder with you… Twenty years ago, when Marc and I were just undergrads in college, our psychology professor taught us a lesson we’ve never forgotten. On the last day of class before graduation, she walked up on stage to teach one final lesson, …
By Patrick Ngugi He was born the year following the declaration of the state of emergency. That makes former People Daily Managing Editor and unsung hero of the second liberation Mugo Theuri a year shy of his 70th birthday. Mugo, who looks much younger than his age, tells BLISS OASIS Africa during Part Two of …
Persistent feelings of worry, uneasiness, fear, or apprehension. Symptoms of anxiety often include physical tension and mood swings. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is a form of anxiety that typically occurs after a traumatic or stressful life event (e.g., loss of a loved one, car accident, rape, combat, etc.) Social Anxiety is characterized by constant …
Adjustment disorder is a group of symptoms, such as stress, feeling sad or hopeless, and physical symptoms can occur after you go through a stressful event. Many different events may trigger symptoms of an adjustment disorder. Whatever the trigger is, the event may become too much for you. The symptoms occur because you are …
If you are facing a challenge with which you are not prepared on how to cope, you need the assistance of another person equipped in helping to pull through. It is not a weakness to admit that we are finding it hard to cope with certain situations. Many people think that you only go to …
Stress is the body’s response to real or perceived threats. Today most of our problems cannot be solved with a fight or flight response. We have to work through our problems and find constructive solutions. Stress is about reactions people have to the situations they face. These reactions are not the same from person to …
Are you suffering from abuse? It is possible that you have been suffering from abuse without realizing it. This is because many victims are usually not sure if they are being or have been abused. They may know that they have been harmed, but they may think that they deserved that harm or believe that …
