Mindfully With 'Tunmise
by Oluwatunmise Oladapo Kuku
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What If The Silence Is The Point
What If The Silence Is The Point
About this podcast
Mindfully with Tunmise, The Podcast is a weekly talk/interview show that seeks to promote mental health awareness by demystifying perceived mysteries surrounding mental health stability. The show features personal stories from Tunmise, who lives with Bipolar II and also collects stories from individuals from all walks of life. The conversations aim to answer questions surrounding mental health myths and promote living mindfully through self-compassion and showing up instead of perfection. The show also features resource experts to provide a balanced explanation to each question raised. The target audience includes young adults, parents, and middle-aged citizens who are struggling with self-esteem, identity conflicts, cultural conflicts, existential questions and resolving relational conflicts. Mindfully with Tunmise. The show's mission is to encourage people to live mindfully, tell their stories, and promote self-compassion. The show's duration is between 30 to 60 minutes per episode, and it can be accessed at all podcast platforms and at www.blackhemages.com
Episodes
The newest 20 of 131 episodes
- What If The Silence Is The Point · 23 min · Season 8 Episode 17Send us Fan Mail Uncertainty isn’t a cute quote for us, it’s the real edge of living, creating, and healing. We reach the end of Season 8 by admitting something tender: not…
- Rethinking Die Empty · 31 min · Season 8 Episode 16Send us Fan Mail “Die empty” gets shared like a life hack, but I don’t think it survives contact with real life. I start from a small place, a Nigerian “I hail you”, and the way…
- The Absalom In Me · 39 min · Season 8 Episode 15Send us Fan Mail Power doesn’t only corrupt the villains. Sometimes it simply goes unexamined, gets called “normal,” and quietly reshapes how we treat people who cannot easily…
- You Are Not Your Thoughts, Even When They Feel True · 30 min · Season 8 Episode 14Send us Fan Mail October doesn’t just change the weather, it turns up the volume on the questions we avoid. We start Mental Health Awareness Month by telling the origin stories…
- Anxiety, Faith, And The Tug Toward Certainty · 21 min · Season 8 Episode 13Send us Fan Mail The need to control can feel like wisdom, responsibility, even love, until you notice what it’s doing to your body. I’m sharing a personal reflection on why…
- When Your Villain Shows Up For A Hug · 23 min · Season 8 Episode 12Send us Fan Mail Someone can scream down a waiting room one day and hug you gently the next and both moments can be true. That uncomfortable whiplash is where this Mindfully With…
- Leading From Inner Alignment · 1 h 1 min · Season 8 Episode 11Send us Fan Mail “How are you” is a leadership question, not small talk, and we start there with a breath that helps the body catch up to the pace of the mind. Then we sit down…
- Dignity In Vulnerability · 38 min · Season 8 Episode 10Send us Fan Mail Someone’s private pain got shouted across a hospital waiting room, and I couldn’t stop thinking about what that does to a person’s dignity. That moment turns…
- Walking Through The Empty Season · 51 min · Season 8 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail Grief has a way of shrinking your identity until the worst thing that happened becomes the loudest thing about you. We start there, with Naomi returning home…
- What If Your Survival Story Is Not You · 47 min · Season 8 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail Something feels off lately: people are quicker to snap, slower to trust, and tired in a way sleep can’t fix. I sit with that feeling out loud and ask whether…
- A Brother’s Faith And The Questions That Follow · 32 min · Season 8 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail How do you keep living when the answer never comes? We start with a question that is easy to dodge and hard to sit with: how are you, really. Then we slow down…
- Staying Yourself In Babylon · 43 min · Season 8 Episode 6Send us Fan Mail The world can rename you without ever touching your birth certificate. It can do it through praise you start chasing, criticism you start believing, trauma you…
- Living Without Neat Answers While You Wait · 28 min · Season 8 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail How do you live when life refuses to make sense and the answers never arrive on time? We start with a simple question that can change the whole day: “How are…
- I Memorised The Script Then Cried · 22 min · Season 8 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail You can be “doing everything right” and still feel hollow inside. That’s the quiet cost of approval addiction: the constant performing, the overthinking, the…
- My Inner Child Filed A Formal Complaint · 20 min · Season 8 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail Some pain doesn’t end with a bow, and that doesn’t mean you’re failing. I’m talking about ambiguous grief, also known as ambiguous loss, the kind of grief that…
- When Confidence Is A Mask · 23 min · Season 8 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail Confidence isn’t always confidence. Sometimes it’s insecurity with good posture, a steady voice, and years of practice hiding in plain sight. We talk directly to…
- My Inner Narrator Could Use A Nap · 23 min · Season 8 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail The loudest voice in your life might be the one nobody else can hear. We’re talking about personal dialogue the inner self-talk that shapes your mental health…
- A Novel That Rewrites Manliness · 1 h 13 minSend us Fan Mail A man can look “fine” and still be standing on a ledge inside his own mind. That tension sits at the heart of our conversation with author Ulutumbi Ito about his…
- You Are Human Before You Are A Man. · 56 min · Season 7 Episode 17Send us Fan Mail The world is loud right now: war, economic stress, nonstop online gender battles, and the quiet feeling that everyone is bracing for impact. So we take a…
- Give Me My Flowers · 24 min · Season 7 Episode 16Send us Fan Mail “Give me my flowers while I’m still here” sounds like a clean rule for life, but once you factor in loneliness, shifting relationships, and the masks we wear to…
