Living Content

Today’s episode is a guest episode, I sat down with Mpumi Mayisa to uncover her healing journey. This is one part of our conversation, the second part of this conversation will be released on Thursday this week.

Mpumi Mayisa is a poet, photographer, podcaster, educational art program designer, and event curator based in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is passionate about using her gifts to advocate for human expansion and healing. Her background in education and event photography has given her insight into the seemingly small yet healthy social ingredients missing from the world she finds herself in. She has used these insights as seeds for inspiration to dream up the ideas, programs, and events that she executes in an effort to create new, rich realities that help nourish the seeds of creativity and self-healing.

Since founding Among The Lilies in 2017, she has curated Ode To The Woman, Book Socials, and The Open Mic Experiment that provides artists with a platform to express their creative power, find or share their voices, collaborate, and learn to give themselves permission to breathe easy in their own bodies.

Mpumi flowers open when she has a pen in the grip of her tiny fingers and enjoys the simple pleasure of stringing words together to form true to life and potent stories. She is currently working on her debut poetry collection.

Thank you for being here.

You can follow Mpumi on Instagram: @mpumi_dee and Among The Lillies @among.the.lilies

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Today's episode is our first guest episode, I invited Mapule Peggy Ntsepe for a conversation on healing. We journeyed through her healing journey as she unpacks some of her childhood trauma, her journey back to home to self, the work that she does, and she also wraps up this episode with her beautiful affirming words. For me she is such a well of wisdom and I love how she shares, after our first IGlive I certainly wanted more.  This episode is loaded with so many gems from Peggy.

Peggy Ntsepe is a social/creative and education entrepreneur, design researcher, social impact advocate, and public speaker. Her career is built on creating sustainable networks and ecosystems in our black communities. She firmly believes in having important transformational conversations, this becomes the vehicle that allows previously disadvantaged communities to participate in the socio-economic activities that influence local and global change.

She is the co-founder of Enkambini Creative Hub, a creative business that focuses on transformation through creativity. She also founded Change That Happens Podcast, a platform that explores spiritual transformational conversations. Peggy also runs She Imagines, a project under her NGO Change That Happens, she facilitates the programme #GirlsLead that focuses on women/girl leadership.

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You can follow Peggy on Instagram: @peggyntsepe

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Well, today’s episode seeks to answer and also help Tulips Tuls, who sent me a question that I have prolonged responding to. It’s about the Mother wound. Her healing question was "how do I heal from a narcissistic mother and learning to accept that I may never receive her love." I know that some of us can relate to her story, so I do hope that this episode is for someone too.

~Show notes~

[00:00] - Intro

[07:30] - How do you tell when a parent may be narcissistic

[15:15] - How do you heal from this

[18:50] - This week's affirmation

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In today’s episode I unpack on finding self belonging and inner security first. By that, I mean learning to belong to yourself first and asserting that inner child in you that she is safe. Self belonging is being in a relationship with yourself and getting to know who you are the same way you would if you were in a relationship. Part of getting to know ourselves better requires sitting with our inner child. 

In this episode I also talk about what happens when we don't know ourselves better and get into a relationship, and how do you get to know yourself better even in a relationship.

~Show notes~

[00:00] - Intro

[03:30] - On finding self-belonging and inners security

[11:15] - What happens when you don't know yourself better and get into a relationship

[18:40] - How do you get to know yourself better even in a relationship

[22:00] - This week's affirmation

The podcast I referenced her is Black Girls Heal.

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Today’s episode I am going to sound like a preacher, it’s a light-hearted episode on granting yourself grace and self-care during this pandemic. Today’s question is from Gontse (@gee_letsapa) and she asked “When life is not working out, how do you extend to yourself the same grace you can easily extend for others.”

~Show notes~

[00:00] - Intro

[03:30] - Missed off-ramps and granting ourselves grace

[10:35] - What self-care can look like during this pandemic

[18:30] - This week's affirmation

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Today’s episode is about embracing different experiences, opinions, and ideas to life and defining what success looks like for you. I have gotten to a point in life where I have learned to appreciate that things are not always black or white, true or false and there will not always be one true answer, one solution or one formula to life. And that I can define my own success just the way it pleases me and helps me live a life I am content with.

~Show notes~

[00:00] - Intro

[03:30] - On embracing our different experiences, opinions, and ideas but still embracing our own path

[11:45] - The questions to ask yourself when defining your own success and what it looks like

[18:30] - The importance of defining what your success looks like

[20:30] - This week's affirmation 

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Today we are talking about why and how we may be sabotaging ourselves. Why do we have little worth for ourselves and often shrink into smallness. We will look at what that can look like, what is the reason we do it, and how to stop.

I also shared some beautiful words from two creative women, both as affirmation and to celebrate how powerful you are even when you are still learning to believe that for yourself.

The day you will stop doubting yourself and realize your power, some people will be scared. Imagine if we showed up as our highest selves each day. Imagine if we hyped ourselves of the real truth of who we are, imagine if we reclaimed our sovereignty and stopped giving away our power to old narratives. Imagine if we realised how God we are. Imagine that day!

Today’s question is from @zshabangu on limiting self-beliefs.

~Show notes~

[00:00] - Intro

[09:55] - On what is Self-sabotage

[10:40] - What it can look like, how do we sabotage ourselves

[16:45] - The reasons we sabotage ourselves

[20:30] - How do we stop sabotaging ourselves

[23:05] - This week's affirmation are words drawn from a song - Go Bravely by Londrelle Hall (ft. Shelly-Ann Gajadhar)

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Happy new month! We are now within the month of March. Here’s to a new soul replenishing and transformative month. May these new 31 days open to you another layer of yourself to show you the greatness that you are capable of. 

Today I wanted to talk about learning to show up for yourself in ways you needed someone to, by that I mean learning to grant yourself the love you needed someone to grant you. And we know any form of self-love starts with cultivating nurturing thoughts that are affirming to us. It should be that when you sit with yourself in solitude, you are able to befriend all of you and it’s a safe space that you can visit very often to remind yourself of the truth that is you. We cannot use the same voice, language, and tone that taught us to be hard on ourselves to heal ourselves. 

Today's question on healing was from @saucey_bear, she asked “Please share your thoughts on dealing with feeling excluded/left out and how to be okay and feel secure in yourself in such moments”.

~Show notes~

[00:00] - Intro

[03:00] - Questions to reflect on for passing months

[08:30] - This week's question on healing

[09:30] - 5 love languages which you can show love to yourself

[15:45] - This week's affirmation

Questions shared by @saucey_bear. Thank you for being here.

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Sometimes healing can be about learning to embrace a good thing when it finds you, sometimes it can be about learning to make room for what you are hoping for, sometimes it can be about learning to hold on to new nurturing believes that remind you of what you deserve and sometimes it can be about learning a new and healthy way to go through hardship. So whether it’s in learning how to embrace joy for yourself, learning to know that you don’t have to read the room to hold space for joy in your life, or learning just how much you deserve it. I want us to be able to talk all about it.

The way I see it, part of healing is knowing that you deserve joy in life and I believe this is our Devine gift to us and wish for us too. In today's episode, I am unpacking what joy is and also answering the question that came through from Matshepo - how did you learn to walk in contentment?. In today's episode, I share how to choose joy and cultivate a content life.

~Show notes~

[00:00] - Intro

[03:00] - Choosing joy as part of healing and what joy is

[13:00] - Ways in which you can cultivate joy, therefore, living a content life

[20:30] - This week's affirmation

Questions shared by: Matshepo. Thank you for being here.

DISCLAIMER: Do not treat the content here as a substitute for therapy or professional help.

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Today’s episode is about forgiveness, one of the pillars I believe to be critical in genuinely living a content life and living light, unburdened by our pasts. Today in particular I wanted us to talk about self-forgiveness because only when we are able to truly forgive ourselves which is the most hardest part of forgiveness, so shall we be able to forgive others and release any bondage holding us to anyone who has disappointed us or caused us pain in some way and also releasing the past that never left our hearts.

In this episode, I speak to a question that Tumi shared - on forgiveness and owning our healing journey without the permission, participation, or buy-in of others.

~Show notes~

[00:00] - Intro

[10:05] - How to start cultivating self-forgiveness

[18:45] - My own story with self-forgiveness

[23:15] - This week's affirmation

Questions shared by: Tumi. Thank you for being here.

DISCLAIMER: Do not treat the content here as a substitute for therapy or professional help.

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~Intro sound beat produced by Simphiwe Kulla