Lehlohonolo Mazindo - Registered Counsellor

Lehlohonolo Mazindo - Registered Counsellor HPCSA Registered Counsellor | Mzansi Men of Influence Award Winner—2025 | Speaker—Therapist | Mental Health PR NR: 0411795 | HPCSA NR: PRC0007099

Registered Counsellor, Psychotherapist, Mental Health Practitioner, Certified Life Coach, Marriage Therapist, Minister, Speaker and Internationally Published Author of the book, Together Till The End: A Blueprint For Successful Marriage and Think or Shrink: Explore Your Mind to Expand Your Life.

Yesterday was a sacred gift — one of those rare moments in life where love, friendship, purpose, and legacy meet in one ...
23/11/2025

Yesterday was a sacred gift — one of those rare moments in life where love, friendship, purpose, and legacy meet in one room.

I had the honour of speaking as a friend at the wedding of my best friend of 18 years, Klaas Majaphage, as he entered a new and beautiful chapter with his wife, Nqabisa Majaphage, in East London, Eastern Cape. Standing there, witnessing their union, reminded me of how deeply life rewards those who remain faithful to becoming the best versions of themselves.

Klaas and I have lived through almost two decades of stories — seasons of laughter, growth, loss, rebuilding, silence, hard conversations, and countless triumphant comebacks. We have seen each other at our highest and our most broken. And through it all, we chose to remain close, honest, accountable, prayerful, and resilient.

Klaas is that friend who does not only survive life — he rises from it. I have watched him navigate ups and downs that would crush many, yet he always returns stronger, wiser, more grounded, and more committed to love, purpose, leadership, and becoming. To see him loved, honoured, and celebrated yesterday felt like witnessing the fulfilment of a long-awaited promise.

And then came Nqabisa — poised, warm, centred, deeply gracious, and beautifully aligned with his destiny. Their union made sense. It felt divinely arranged, thoughtfully timed, and spiritually confirmed. Together, they carry a harmony that gives hope — the kind of marriage that builds families, strengthens communities, and inspires possibility.

To the Majaphages — may your home be a sanctuary of joy, peace, abundance, laughter, partnership, healing, and unshakeable friendship. May your love remain bigger than any storm and gentler than any wound. May you continue becoming, together.

I left East London filled with gratitude — for friendship that grows, for love that restores, and for life that continues to unfold with meaning.

Here’s to 18 years of brotherhood — and a lifetime more of witnessing your becoming. Congratulations, my friends. Your story is only getting started.

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP MOMENT ✨The Most Dangerous Lie: Stay Who You AreLEHLOHONOLO MAZINDOMental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. L...
23/11/2025

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP MOMENT ✨
The Most Dangerous Lie: Stay Who You Are

LEHLOHONOLO MAZINDO
Mental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. Life Mastery.

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We are often told to stay the same. To stay familiar. To stay predictable. But staying who you were can quietly kill who you are becoming.

I learned this through my own journey.
People expected me to remain the man shaped by depression, diagnosis, heartbreak, and silent battles. That version made sense to them. It did not serve my future.

Healing required that I release the identity my pain created.

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You Are a Becoming

Identity is not fixed. It grows, shifts, expands. What protected you once can limit you now. What felt safe can become a cage.

The past version of you is not sacred. The next version is.

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My Turning Point

There came a moment when I realised I was no longer depressed, yet still living like I was. I carried habits that belonged to an old season. I had healed, but I had not updated the man I was becoming.

I was not stuck. I was outdated.

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The Cost of Growth

Your evolution will unsettle people who depend on your old identity. Your rise will reveal what they refused to outgrow.

Let it.

You are not here to stay small for anyone’s comfort.

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You have the right to evolve.
You have the right to rise.
You have the right to rewrite your life.

You are not your trauma or your failures.
You are a living transformation shaped by grace and strengthened by experience.

You were never born only to survive. You were born to become.

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MAZINDO MENTORSHIP ACADEMY
Where World Changers and History Makers are Discovered, Developed, and Deployed.

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Yesterday was an honour I do not take for granted.I had the privilege of speaking at the Men’s Wellness Event hosted by ...
22/11/2025

Yesterday was an honour I do not take for granted.

I had the privilege of speaking at the Men’s Wellness Event hosted by Road Accident Fund, with nearly 700 men in attendance.

My keynote was a psychoeducational session focused on redefining masculinity, navigating mental health challenges, and understanding the hidden impact of childhood trauma in adult life.

Speaking to men is never just about delivering a message; it’s about creating a safe space for vulnerability, healing, and transformation. This requires a special kind of skill—one I’ve humbly honed over the past 20 years as a professional speaker and mental health practitioner.

Immediately after the session, I made my way to OR Tambo International Airport and caught a flight to East London, continuing the mission.

Grateful for strength, clarity, and the grace to serve my generation.

Let’s keep doing the work. Our communities need it.

LEHLOHONOLO MAZINDO
Mental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. Life Mastery.

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We often think wellbeing comes from fixing the relationship, communicating better, or trying harder. But sometimes true ...
19/11/2025

We often think wellbeing comes from fixing the relationship, communicating better, or trying harder. But sometimes true wellbeing begins when you recognise that a relationship can be functional yet still unfit for your evolution. Not harmful enough to leave, but not healthy enough to grow in.

A relationship doesn’t have to be abusive to be misaligned. It can be loving but limiting… supportive but suffocating… familiar but spiritually shrinking.

You are allowed to outgrow people who helped you survive but can’t help you evolve.

Wellbeing is not just about who loves you; it’s also about who you become in their presence. A relationship that costs you your peace, your purpose, or your self-respect is too expensive, no matter how “stable” it looks from the outside.

Healthy relationships don’t just hold you, they unfold you.

True healing and liberation begin with the courage to leave relationships that are loving but limiting and embrace those that give you freedom to become.

LEHLOHONOLO MAZINDO
Mental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. Life Mastery.

THE CHAOS BEFORE THE CALM: Understanding the Turbulence of Spiritual Healing ✨Tomorrow morning at 04:30 on SAfm, I will ...
16/11/2025

THE CHAOS BEFORE THE CALM: Understanding the Turbulence of Spiritual Healing ✨

Tomorrow morning at 04:30 on SAfm, I will be diving into one of the most misunderstood dimensions of growth: the chaos that accompanies spiritual healing. Many people assume healing is gentle, linear, and predictable. But the truth—especially within an Afrocentric, lineage-rooted worldview—is that spiritual healing often begins with disruption, disorientation, and deep internal conflict.

We will unpack why your spirit shakes before it settles, why identity feels unstable in seasons of transformation, and why the path to alignment often feels like a storm before it becomes a sanctuary. This is a conversation for anyone navigating transition, awakening, or the inner work of reconnecting with their authentic blueprint.

Join me and my A-Teamers for a meaningful, grounding, and transformative dialogue that brings both psychological clarity and spiritual depth to a journey many walk in silence.

HEART at WORK!!!

LEHLOHONOLO MAZINDO
Mental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. Life Mastery.

Spiritual healing is often mistaken for peace, but in truth, it begins as disruption. Your spirit will disturb anything ...
16/11/2025

Spiritual healing is often mistaken for peace, but in truth, it begins as disruption. Your spirit will disturb anything that is too small for your calling. It will shake relationships that shrink you, expose beliefs that limit you, and break versions of you that were built for survival, not destiny.

We keep calling it “spiritual warfare,” “attacks,” or “bad luck,” when sometimes it’s simply your soul refusing to negotiate with anything that contradicts who you were created to become.

Not every loss is punishment — some losses are alignment. Not every ending is trauma — some endings are evolution.

Healing and spirituality are not about becoming calm; they’re about becoming congruent. When your inner world and outer life finally match, peace becomes a by-product, not a performance.

LEHLOHONOLO MAZINDO
Mental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. Life Mastery.

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP MOMENT ✨The Courage to Outgrow Who You Used to BeYou are not stuck. You have outgrown the version of ...
15/11/2025

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP MOMENT ✨

The Courage to Outgrow Who You Used to Be

You are not stuck. You have outgrown the version of you that once survived.

By Lehlohonolo Mazindo
Mental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. Life Mastery.

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There comes a time when the courage you need is not to face the world, but to face the version of you that was built for a season that has ended.

I know that version. Mine was shaped by pain, diagnosis, defeat, divorce, and the story of the man who kept trying and kept falling. I learned survival, not growth.

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Why We Stay Stuck

We hold on to what feels familiar even when it limits us. What protected you once can restrict you now. Safety can become a cage.

The ego clings. The soul calls. You must choose which voice you follow.

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My Turning Point

One day I saw that I was no longer depressed, yet I was still living like I was. Still shrinking. Still doubting myself. Still carrying habits that belonged to a man I had already outgrown.

I wasn’t stuck. I was outdated.

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The Work of Outgrowing

Growth is spiritual. Outgrowing is sacred. It is not about becoming someone else, but releasing what no longer reflects your truth.

I had to outgrow guilt for wanting joy.
I had to outgrow identities tied to pain.
I had to outgrow survival so I could step into purpose.

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The Invitation

You are not stuck. You are being invited to become someone your past cannot recognise.

Not to fix yourself, but to free yourself.
Not to fight the old, but to embody the new.
Not to wait for confidence, but to move with courage.

Your future is waiting for your permission to grow.

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From My Heart to Yours

You are not your trauma or your failures.
You are a rising, healing masterpiece shaped by grace and strengthened by experience.

You were not born to only survive. You were born to thrive.

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MAZINDO MENTORSHIP ACADEMY
Where World Changers and History Makers are Discovered, Developed, and Deployed.

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP MOMENT ✨THE MOST POWERFUL SHIFT YOU’LL EVER MAKE: From Self-Sabotage to Self-ActualisationBy Lehlohon...
08/11/2025

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP MOMENT ✨

THE MOST POWERFUL SHIFT YOU’LL EVER MAKE: From Self-Sabotage to Self-Actualisation

By Lehlohonolo Mazindo
Mental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. Life Mastery.

There was a time when I wasn’t just living with depression—I was defined by it. Since 2008, I’ve battled chronic clinical depression, been admitted into psychiatric hospitals more times than I can count, and even experienced psychosis. I wore my diagnosis like an identity. I thought I was broken beyond repair.

But one day, while studying positive psychology, I encountered the Mental Health Continuum Model:
• Some are ill and languishing.
• Some are ill but flourishing.
• Some are well but still languishing.
• Some are well and flourishing.

That model changed my life.

It taught me that illness may happen to us, but flourishing is a choice we make from within. I realised I could still flourish—even with depression. So I stopped waiting to be cured to live my best life. I began building that life from the inside out.

I didn’t stop medication. I didn’t abandon therapy. But I did stop surrendering to suffering.

Because suffering is not the illness—it’s the internal narrative we carry about it.

And the most powerful narrative shift you’ll ever make is from self-sabotage to self-actualisation.

Self-sabotage isn’t about weakness—it’s rooted in identity. We sabotage because we don’t believe we deserve better. Until you update your self-concept, no healing will feel like home.

Today, I am flourishing. Not because life is perfect, but because I chose to stop letting pain define me. I’ve turned my depression into direction. My calling has caught up with my compensation—and yes, it’s magical to get paid for doing what I was born to do.

Your value isn’t in what you drive. It’s in what drives you.
Not in what you live in, but what lives in you.
True healing is not being cured—it’s being well with your soul.

You may not choose your diagnosis.
But you can choose your definition.

That’s my story, and I’m thankful that I live to tell it.

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP ACADEMY
Where World Changers and History Makers are Discovered, Developed, and Deployed.

05/11/2025

Today’s official launch of Think or Shrink: Explore Your Mind to Expand Your Life was truly unforgettable.

After years of private impact, it was a joy to finally present the book publicly—and to do so in the presence of friends, students, mentees, colleagues, and fellow thinkers made it even more meaningful.

A heartfelt thank you to SACAP for making this moment possible and for providing a platform that nurtures growth, healing, and transformation.

I often speak on “The Road Least Traveled”—the one between your left ear and your right ear. It’s in our minds that our greatest battles are fought, and our greatest breakthroughs are birthed.

Thank you to everyone who showed up, supported, and made this day a landmark in my journey. Let’s keep thinking, growing, and expanding.

Maybe healing is not really about feeling better — maybe it’s about becoming more real. The world keeps telling you to “...
05/11/2025

Maybe healing is not really about feeling better — maybe it’s about becoming more real. The world keeps telling you to “move on,” “stay positive,” and “forgive and forget,” as if healing means deleting the evidence of your becoming. But what if healing is not about erasing the pain, but integrating the truth it revealed?

Mental health is not the absence of struggle; it’s the presence of alignment. You can meditate, journal, and affirm all day, but if you’re still betraying your truth, your soul will rebel in the form of anxiety, exhaustion, and emotional chaos. Sometimes your “breakdown” is just your spirit refusing to live a lie any longer.

Healing is not a return to who you were; it’s a revolution into who you really are. You don’t heal by fixing your past — you heal by freeing your future from it. Wholeness is not perfection; it’s radical self-honesty wrapped in grace.

Healing, in its essence, is not about eliminating the pain; it’s about integrating it into your purpose in a meaningful way.

LEHLOHONOLO MAZINDO
Mental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. Life Mastery.

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP MOMENT ✨Becoming the Message: When Your Life Speaks Louder Than Your WordsBy Lehlohonolo MazindoMenta...
01/11/2025

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP MOMENT ✨

Becoming the Message: When Your Life Speaks Louder Than Your Words
By Lehlohonolo Mazindo
Mental Clarity. Spiritual Depth. Life Mastery.

There was a time I taught hope while half-hopeless.
I preached strength while trembling.
I mentored others while privately wrestling with the weight of my own diagnosis.
I was declared ill with Major Depressive Disorder and anxiety in 2008, and I still take my prescribed medication to this day.

But back then, I was living two lives:
The voice the world applauded, and the silent scream within.
It was inspiring—yet incongruent. I knew the message… but I hadn’t yet become it.

The turning point?
A mirror. A question: “Does my life reflect what I teach?”
The answer was humbling: No.

I didn’t need to be perfect—just authentic.
So, I began the real work: aligning my lifestyle with my message.
I stopped merely talking about healing, leadership, or growth—and started embodying them, one consistent day at a time.

I still go to therapy. I still take my meds.
But here’s the difference:
I no longer teach from emptiness—I lead from overflow.
I no longer inspire from performance—I transform from presence.

This journey taught me:
🟩 Your scars carry more power than your speeches.
🟩 Your life is your longest-running mentorship session.
🟩 You don’t just inspire by what you say—you transform by how you live.

When your life becomes the message, it speaks louder than your words ever could.

So here’s my invitation:
Stop being your brand.
Start being your truth.
Let your days echo your declarations.

Because when your message and your life align—trust is built, healing happens, and legacy begins.

That’s my story.
And I’m thankful that I live to tell it.

MAZINDO MENTORSHIP ACADEMY
Where World Changers and History Makers are Discovered, Developed, and Deployed.

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