Trauma: Ghosts of Troubled Pasts

 6th November 7.16am

The thing about trauma is that it comes and goes in waves and you never know what can set you off if you do not address it intelligibly. It’s like a pack of dominoes, you topple one and all the others comes crashing into themselves until the very last one. Life’s challenges are like the domino seeds, stacking themselves up and getting ready to topple over at the slightest trigger. This is why dealing with trauma, per time, is absolutely necessary for everyone. Get a professional therapist if you can and/or use a wise friend as a sounding board to see/hear things from a broader perspective.

Being a Nigerian, it might sound like a foreign concept, yes I can hear you rolling your eyes at this, lol but I tell you, it’s not. It could make the difference between you being happy or you attracting happiness and love and you being a grouch and a grinch for the rest of your life. People do not know how much their bottled-up and unaddressed feelings and emotions causes them to react, overreact or lash out at others, often times for the most mundane things.

Sometimes, life can be so cruel and leave ugly scars on our bodies and souls even. These are quite traumatic so getting therapy is imperative to healing such that one can prepare to face the world and the next challenge, a stronger and better warrior. Listen, i do not know how the template of our existence came to being but as surely as the sun would rise tomorrow, there would be daily troubles and challenges. It is a norm so brace and prep yourself steadily to jump over and win these hurdles. 

Life won’t stop throwing curveballs, you just have to equip yourself better to handle each pass as it comes. Never forget that you’ve got this and yes you can, will and must. ❤👍

Buki O.