Tag: Life lounge
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Life Lounge with Edem Knight-Tay: Would you rather enjoy or endure your marriage?
The colour theme of the wedding, The type of wedding dress and whether we should buy or make it, How many bridesmaids and grooms men are we having? The tiers of the wedding cake, Shall we have a dress code for the guests? How many caterers are we engaging and who is handling what? How many…
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Life Lounge with Edem Knight-Tay – Do your words build or break?
Two days ago after work, the children and I had our usual moment where I catch up on their day and they on mine. During that interaction, my son who is 13, told us how some of his friends made fun of a boy in his class because he is chubby and loved to eat…
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Life Lounge with Edem Knight-Tay – Balance It
This will sound like a cliché but it remains the most factual cliché in any work environment. You are not indispensable to your organisation. You may be the star performer. You may be the pivot around whom the business revolves but remember, that is for as long as you are healthy, alive and fit for…
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Life lounge with Edem Knight-Tay: Only because she is a woman
It was really heart wrenching to see such young children battling various forms of cancer. There was a four months old baby who had lymphomas all over his body. They were waiting for the biopsy report to determine the next line of action. His young mother looked so weary and exhausted. Her life is going…
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Life lounge with Edem Knight-Tay: Don’t Die Fixing It
Letting it go and walking away has become so fashionable that, working at our relationships and fixing the challenges is now seen as a weakness.
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Life Lounge with Edem Knight-Tay: Fix it
Let’s flip it- you both wake up snuggling together, have your quiet time, and if time allows or depending on the mood, you get together sweetly and gently, moan under intense passion until the denouement where all those feel-good hormones are released. You smile sheepishly at how naughty you both have been, affirm your love…
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Life lounge with Edem Knight-Tay: She understood
Accept that you are overwhelmed and truly need support. Until this is done, you may continue to wonder and wallow in self-pity. Eventually you slip into depression and if care is not taken, the best of you could be lost. Note that some people never recover from depression.
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Life Lounge with Edem Knight-Tay: I understand
About two weeks ago after Home Affairs, I got a call from a distressed young woman who said she was in dire need of a family life counsellor. I tried to calm her down because she was very hysterical and upset.