Let me start with a bold opening statement by saying “YOUR CO-WORKERS ARE NOT AUTOMATICALLY YOUR FRIENDS.” Beautiful friendships among co-workers can be found a lot in Hollywood movies and my favorite is the movie, the Intern. But unfortunately in…
We are not inspired naturally to make friends with ourselves. The concept of a healthy friendship has always been centered around the act of reaching out. Very little is often centered around the act of reaching within. When it comes…
The formation of childhood friendships isn’t as complicated and “ intentionally” demanding like adulthood friendships. It’s much easy if you ask me or perhaps anybody who can recall their childhood experiences when it comes to friendship. It was so easy…
Nothing hurts more than the end of once a good friendship. “It was fun whist it lasted.” Someone once told me. The memories of a once good friendship sometimes can hurt even when healing is perfected. You think about it…
DAY 1. BUILDING INTENTIONAL FRIENDSHIP- THE GRASS IS GREENER WHERE YOU WATER IT. I grew up watching how my parents nurtured some relationships in their lives. Our home was an open invitation to aunties and uncles- people who were not…
Boundaries as I described in one of my poems are rest stops in relationships. They are not fences or walls that prevent people from getting to us but rather they determine how far one can cross a certain “line” when…
Between myself and her I don’t know who comes out often to say “ I miss you or I love you” the most. Her is the name of the close friends I have experienced and still navigating a massive transitioning…
…Because in the end , people can only give what they have, and that is what I have come to know and whilst in some previous times I have really hurt deeply because I couldn’t get to experience that kind…
I never thought I need rest until I actually started having one. Everybody around me was telling me “ Jo, slow down, rest”. My mom’s concern was the deepest that echoed in my two blocked ears. Now if you take…
When I arrived in Accra in September 2014, I first settled at Dome with family. By family I mean my dad’s friend in ministry , with his wife and three children and I felt every feeling of family. Today, I…
