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In My Feelings is a game that seeks to help people build healthier relationships with themselves and other people in their lives.

The purpose of the game is to create deeper connections, normalize vulnerability, and giving people a good support system.

10/10/2023

Good morning Everyone, we are officially coming to the end of our mental wellness party season for the year.

We are ending off with a very spicy topic 🥵 - Umjolo vibes !!

How are relationships treating you?

Are you dating ? And if so how has your dating journey been so far?

Are you in a serious relationship? How are you nurturing and growing your relationship?

Are you married? How does dating your spouse in marriage look like? How do you keep your relationship mentally healthy?

Are you divorced? How is single life again? Are you ready to build again and what changes will you be making to your approach this time?

These are some of the questions we will cover and more in our Umjolo Vibes Mental Wellness Party!!

And we have an after party of fun and music to cool off after some much needed venting and therapeutic conversations.

Join us for a unique mental wellness journey!!

09/10/2022

The In My Feelings Game is extending its mental wellness program to preschools!!
Children age 4-5 years old already can vocalise their feelings. This a good time to start laying down the foundation for mental wellness practice.

We use play learning and structured fun activities to help children learn to use coping tools for their mental and emotional struggles. We help children understand how to build healthy relationships too

The Kindness Star is one of our preschool activities. We use the kindness star to encourage children to do daily kind acts for others and themselves. We call the good energy transfer "magic''. The children give off good energy when they do kinda acts for others and they are rewarded with gratitude and joy. It's a circulation of good energy. The star is a physical reminder to practice kind acts daily.

09/10/2022

Kindness is recognizing that a positive act done with the intention of making someone feel good, can light up the darkest days.

The In My Feelings Kindness Stars activities teach children about being intentional when it comes to kindness.Acts of kindness are rewarding to both the giver and receiver.
It is a good energy transfer activity. We give with open hearts and are rewarded by others feelings of gratitude and joy. Only good energy is circulated between the giver and receiver.

05/10/2022

Children need a lot of patience and people who won't right them off immediately.

Starting my mental wellness games at preschool level has taught me a couple of lessons about younger children.

The lesson that stood out for me today was not giving up on children who display antisocial behaviour.

There are many reasons why children withdraw from a a group or activity. They tend to use defensive language when confronted by adults.

The best solution I found is to give them space and after a few minutes get down to their level to ask what is wrong. Take the time to listen to what they have to say and not try to convince them to join others. The decision must be theirs.

When we listen to children and validate their feelings, there is a shift for them emotionally. They allow themselves to trust you and are more willing to engage in the group activity.

Children's feelings matter. Show them you care by taking the time to chat to them instead of writing them off.

02/10/2022

Support is a big part of mental wellness. We all need to be around people who are the "right'' people to hear our struggles.

Most of the time we talk to people who make us feel ashamed for feeling a certain or invalidate our experiences.

The In My Feelings tribe gives people safe spaces to pour their hearts out. Everything they say is accepted with compassion and love.

Our goal is for everyone to feel they matter. We are here to support them with hugs, laughter, compilments and meaningful friendships.

Our group this weekend did a special handshake in honour of mental health. What a blast!!

28/01/2022

Rock bottom...

We are all afraid to find ourselves in this place.

Many of us don't even know how we would survive rock bottom.

Here is the thing..

Once you reach rock bottom, the fall stops. You can't fall any further. All you have to do now is sit in those uncomfortable feelings and pain while looking at what is left of the life you had.

It's a painful experience for anyone.

I see rock bottom as a reset button. The opportunity to rewrite your story and become the person you wanted.

This can only happen when you are sitting in the ashes of your life and a whisper from your soul says "this is not how my story ends''.

You will begin the climb up once you shed your past self, traumas and mistakes. You will be climbing with purpose and towards the person you want to be.

Some of us are scared to take this journey and choose to stay in the middle. A place that's not fully living but us controlling our emotions through suppression. We stand on this emotional tight rope and do a balancing act for the world. When that rope starts shaking, we go to our coping mechanisms to numb the edge of our overwhelming feelings. Our coping mechanisms are usually extreme and effective for a short while. We want to look "fine'' for the world staring back at us.

Falling is much better than swinging like a pendulum whenever we are triggered emotionally.

Rock bottom allows us to face all our traumas and choosing healing in order to survive.

Choose to fall and if you are afraid to do it alone, find a support system to help you up from rock bottom towards you greatness.

We all have rock bottom stories to tell. Let us share our stories for others to know that rock bottom is not the end but the beginning of having the courage to chase the life you want.

26/01/2022

Most of us are so concerned with receiving external validation from others that we forget the message our actions are saying to the world.
Are we people that appear confident in themselves and can make decisions without needing other people's approves?Do we love ourselves enough to not violate our boundaries to please others? Do we like ourselves? Do we spend more time shaming our bodies and wishing we were someone else?
All these things you think about yourself send a message to the world and the world responses to that message.

What message are you sending out to the world about yourself?

25/01/2022

Someone once asked me why forgiveness was so hard.
Forgiveness is a journey that requires us to feel the vulnerable emotions that we have suppressed to heal and forgive others.

When we experience great pain, our subconscious protects us by suppressing those intense emotions to help us survive.

We use anger as a defense mechanism to cope with such pain on a daily basis. In the long run this defense mechanism becomes unhealthy and prevents us from healing and moving on.

Forgiveness is a process. It's more than saying the words " I forgive you''. It's about giving up the pain and making peace with the hurt someone caused you without seeking revenge.

20/01/2022

I heard a woman says yesterday "no matter how much love I give my mother, it will never be enough''.

The discussion was about reparenting our inner child.

What struck me the most about her statement was the awareness and acknowledgement of her mother's "wounded inner child''.She understood that her mother was a product of her grandparents' parental conditioning and dysfunctional attributes in the family. Her mother needed healing to fully accept her daughter's love.

What can make a devoted daughter's love not enough for her mother?

Childhood trauma.

When we experience trauma, our subconscious mind goes into protective mode and suppresses those memories and emotions. It does this to protect us but sadly that prevents us from healing and moving past these traumas. This leads to our childhood traumas revealing themselves in our behaviours, internalized anxiety , physical symptoms and emotional health in adulthood.

When we decide to hold a safe space for our wounded inner child and begin the healing, we are breaking the generational trauma cycles. We can also hold that safe space for our parents when they are ready to heal their inner child.

We need to hold more safe spaces to discuss unresolved trauma in our parents. Bad parenting is a result of one's childhood traumas that were never addressed

17/01/2022

I have been on a brief hiatus from all media to connect with myself and learn how to better serve others in the mental and emotional space.
Things I have learnt in this brief period have been enlightening and shed light on so many things we tend to overlook in our daily lives.

One of the things I mediated on was how we are all part of generational cycles that have done more harm than good in our lives. Our parents were victims before we were and their parents as well.
Our parents taught us what was passed down to them and never stopped to question anything.

We are the generation that has decide to question centuries of teachings and beliefs, turning them upside as we sit in the debris of traumas from our childhoods.

The mental and emotional health journey is not linear one. You will need to sit in uncomfortable feelings to find your way to healing and every day is a struggle to remain steadfast in the face of pain.

This is why the In My feelings game is more than just a game but a safe space for people to pour all these feelings out and question with fear.
We are a supportive system and anchor.

26/11/2021

There are no accidents when it comes to the people we meet.
I met a good friend who inspires me.

He believes in my vision and what I am trying to achieve with the In My Feelings game. He went one step further and contributed his own work to my game.

This guy has written his own books and appears on the Harvard business review. This is just some of his great achievements.

I am honoured to have friends who will put their names and work into my product because they believe in me.

Feeling very thankful for moments like these.

11/11/2021

Everyone has an idea of who they would like you to be but none of them can write your story. You will always be the author of your story.

Stop handing your pages to other people to fill in the gaps of how your story should progress.

05/11/2021

Do men's feelings matter?

I ask this question as I have observed a pattern when it comes to mental and emotional wellness events.

These events are attended by women.

When you speak to men, they give the impression that these events are designed for women only.

Have we as society sidelined men unintentionally by focusing on women more when it comes to these topics?

I am guilty as well for organizing more events geared at women than men.

We are unintentionally pushing the narrative that it's only women who are allowed to be in touch with their feelings.

03/11/2021

Broken promises are more than you failing to live up to your end of the deal. They are about trust and knowing who you can count on when it matters the most.

Broken promises make us question someone's character and what else they are capable of not doing if it's not self serving.

Broken promises make us wonder if people ever loved us enough and why is it so easy for them to break our hearts.

It's more than just keeping your word. It's about how much you value the other person.

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