Blogs & Insights From Mama Gold
World of Assumptions
Last week, my global Public Relations company asked me whether I would comment on the headline statement that read, “We won’t be silent as apartheid is perpetrated against others”. It was a headline extracted from a speech made by President Cyril Ramaphosa to the United Nations.
I responded by saying, “I think that is too controversial for me to comment on.”
Bringing The Darkness into the Light During Mental Health Month
The aim of declaring October as Mental Health Awareness Month is to educate the public about mental health and reduce the stigma and discrimination that people with mental illness often face.
Having grown up in a family challenged by bipolar and neurodiversity, I am keenly aware of how hard it can be.
The Tale of Two Launches
In the blue eyes of my own truth- telling, I had found the oceans of my healing. Finally confronting the sea of my memories buried deep in the ocean floor for so long. And so I surfaced from the ocean and I stepped into the light of the shore. Looking up at the majesty of Table Mountain - an iconic symbol of the world.
Coming Out
At the age of 29
I had wanted to end it all
Driving weekend after weekend
Along Chapman’s Peak Drive
Wanting to drown my shame
In the cauldron of foam below
That frothed and eddied
Like a crazed dance
Against the ebony rocks below
Soul Speaking
“Writing made sense of my whole life. Today I am a writer who speaks. I did not write this book. This book wrote me. Writing chose me, writing healed me.” Now I choose to live a life worth writing for, a life worth writing about. I choose to step into the light.”
Except from “Belonging; Finding Tribes of Meaning.”
Travellers
When I first met my husband, Friedel, he had been working and travelling overseas for four years. I had been studying and working in England for a year and travelling around Europe in brief breaks.
