2021-02-21 15:15
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A TELE-COUNSELING SESSION WITH A CLIENT. IT’S THE FIRST SESSION AND THE CLIENT CHOSE TO DO IT ON PHONE RATHER THAN ON ZOOM.
And what brings y… Read More
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Chris Lyimo - the Story, the Journey
2021-02-21 11:31
He asked that we bet on the BBINanzenz
“Ok,” laughing quietly to myself that betting about this thing is proof of its nanzenz…
How much are you willing to bet? He as… Read More
2020-12-04 10:21
they said
i should not have
&n……Read More
2020-11-22 11:21
JoyfulNewsletter.com ©Dennis Daniel (Brother Blooper)… Read More
2020-10-19 14:10
I once took a lady friend home. I had bought her alcoholic drinks and I was on soda all evening. We left town at around midnight. I lived on the opposite side of town to where she lived… Read More
2020-09-13 13:05
Turbulence by Da VinciAdolescence is…
Last week we had our first class of Adolescence and adolescent therapy of the Semester.
The lecturer asked us to recount our own adolescent expe… Read More
2020-08-04 01:07
Cleansing by Chris Lyimoaddiction and violence…
…violence in addiction…
in therapy, my counselor told me that there are only three options to dealing with violent behavi… Read More
2020-05-04 11:09
Setting:The setting is the counseling room of the Laikipia Oaks Addiction Treatment Centre. A high-cost rehabilitation centre based on the outskirts of Nanyuki… Read More
2020-04-29 20:32
I am on anti-depressants.
Again.
The first time – 17 years ago- I got them, I was asked why I was depressed
Yet…
I had no wife. I felt guilty for getting depression… Read More
2019-07-01 19:39
It has been a heady graduation weekend for me. The ceremony. The podium experience as I received my BA degree in Counseling and Psychology. Fellowship with family and friends. Posting of p… Read More
2018-07-15 09:33
courtesy: healthyplace.com
violence begets violence
i am haunted…by violence
i see it everywhere, i mean everywhere
in movies, news, the papers…obviously
in language, in… Read More
2018-07-15 03:14
Mwanaume ni Confusion
It’s not easy being a guy in this day and age
On social media, mainstream media, githeri media
Name it
On social media, #MenAreTrash
On mainstream media, #MenAreV… Read More
2017-09-10 19:29
Just over a decade ago I attended the funeral of a man I had worked with on a teen talk show in the mid-90s. I remembered JJ, a cameraman, as a reasonable man and reading about his death in… Read More
2017-09-10 19:29
Just over a decade ago I attended the funeral of a man I had worked with on a teen talk show in the mid-90s. I remembered JJ, a cameraman, as a reasonable man and reading about his death in… Read More
2016-12-06 04:04
Awareness: Depression wolfybytes.deviantart.com
I was a freelance props guy in television commercials. Not a very good one. A hardworking one. I was a nice guy. A very good one. One film dir… Read More
2016-06-04 17:45
So this past week I sat in my first basic computer class in eons, at this uni.
When asked by the lecturer what my expectations from the class were, I answered that I had three and the first… Read More
2016-05-24 04:23
I recently had the privilege of serving as a commissioner on the student-run Electoral Commission of our university during the students’ elections.
It was a twenty-four hour affair wh… Read More
2016-05-15 16:23
source: meetville.com
“Chris, I invite you to imagine a life different from all that you know about yourself when you had a chaotic life and now, the one of your recovery journey. Imag… Read More
2016-01-11 00:17
CREDIT: Calvin & Hobbes
I see you. You, who refused to stop drinking in December because it’s just so so wrong a month to put down the glass. Let’s talk in January, you said… Read More
2015-12-29 20:38
I was on a boda going through a murky muddy wet Katani-Syokimau enroute to Mombasa Road to get my mat to Athi River. I had come from a most thrilling session at New Life Mwangaza Rehabilita… Read More
2015-09-21 20:32
Now, almost two months down the line, you would imagine that I would have written about Our Wedding. Or that I would have written about That Article.
Or you would imagine that writing about… Read More
2015-01-26 22:29
Good Afternoon.
This is the class teacher of Form X.
Kindly come to ____________ on
27th Jan 2015 at 9:00am
to discuss
the progress and performance of HRH
When I received that tex… Read More
2015-01-21 08:30
I recently walked into my first prison experience.
I was on my way to a youth conference speak to a group of teenagers from fourteen schools in Siaya County on the impact of alcohol and dru… Read More
2015-01-16 13:23
Initially written and submitted on 10th October 2014 for a short story non-fiction competition
Early 2013, the calls from both my son and his mum started coming in quicker succession than b… Read More
2015-01-11 05:43
Recently, I got a phone call from yet another distraught mother whose sixteen year old son is being discharged from his second stint in rehab this coming weekend. She was referred by a mutu… Read More
2014-10-30 07:51
“Dear
__________ .
Would you be my girlfriend
in a dating relationship
with the possibility of courtship
leading to Marriage?”
“Yes. Yes. Yees!”
That was me recent… Read More
2014-09-29 11:19
As I write, I am back and forth with a distraught mother whose son left rehab last week and he hasn’t been home four days. Thing is, knowing a bit of his background, I wouldn’t b… Read More
2014-06-23 12:38
Title : My Side of the Street: One man’s journey from alcoholism to sobriety
Author: Chris Lyimo
Published by: Storymoja
Year: 2011
Price: around Kshs 800
Reviewer: Wandia Njoya
This… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
I wish I was a ballot box I’d take the issues based vote, the ethnic vote, the spoilt vote And make them all count I wish I was a ballot box I’d take the winning vote, the losing… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
They felt good eyes upon then and shrank within - undone; good parents had good children and they-a wandering one The good folk never meant to act smug or condemn, but having prodigals… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
It is my bold, unapologetic and unequivocal assertion that everyone’s relationship to God or to that inexplicable universal power that transcends a finite individual is very personal a… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Last Sunday, I was at Juliani’s launch of his new album “Pulpit on the Street” at City Hall Way, on the Street. The sound was just amazing, the crowd, electric and the musi… Read More
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