MaMnguni

So much of adulting is unlearning and reshaping your understanding of who you are and what you want and need.

The whole self love thing is good and all but some people can’t fathom being loved. They can’t imagine there being anything good about them. So they can’t simply just stop doing unhealthy things, there’s a process.

Before self love you have to invoke self tolerance and self neutrality.

This is so useful. If you’re in a mental place where 1. people are telling you to do Affirmations and 2. these Affirmations all ring trite and hollow, it’s because you’re not ready for that degree of sunshine shooting out your ass.  Try the bunny slopes of self-validation, first.

I love how the second lick drags the kitty right across the floor, lol

I so loves this 

I think this should have a hell of a lot more notes on it than it does. This is what good news looks like folk, and the continent of Africa surely deserves a shed load of it.

Today (April 7th) is Remembrance Day for the Rwandan genocide. While Rwanda still faces challenges, their recovery has been incredible. They now have the highest percentage of women in parliament around the world (one of only two countries to have over 50% women), their gross national income has risen each year, and life expectancy has risen from  48 in 1990 to 65 in 2013.