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Khanyisa Mnyaka
Life Coach
What is a “Purpose Driven Life”
One of the most popular books when I was a born-again Christian was ‘A Purpose Driven Life” by Rick Warren. This book was about finding out what your purpose is and living your life to fulfill that purpose. I was seventeen years old when the book came out, fully...
How Grief Reminded Me of UBUNTU this week: We Belong To Each Other
It is Tuesday morning and as most millennials, I wake up and reach for my phone. I start with instagram, then go over to Facebook and the first post I see is from Viola Davis. She has a picture of tWitch (Stephen Boss) on it and it is a tribute post that ends with RIP...
Whose bodies deserve to be seen?
I, in all accounts, consider myself an empowered woman. I once stood in the middle of a friend’s apartment in Bangkok and yelled “I will not be told how to live by anyone. I reject any community that tries to subscribe to me rules about how I should ‘be’. I will...
World AIDS DAY
It has been exactly 20 years since my mother died of HIV/AIDS. I was eighteen years old when died, she was thirty six. At thirty seven now, I can’t stop thinking about how young my mother was when she lost her life to HIV/AIDS. In 2002, when my mother died, the...
I got laid off & it feels like a breakup
"It's not you, it's us" I got laid off this week and I have been processing it, and I got tell you, it feels like a breakup. I started working at the company in April and I was still in the honeymoon phase. I am an immigrant in America, I received my work permit in...
In The Darkness
I shared a bed with my grandparents until I was eight years old. My grandfather died and only my grandmother and I shared a bed. I slept with my grandmother until I was thirteen years old! This means that my grandparents had to teach me how to be okay with the...