Non-communicable diseases or NCDs are the world’s number one killer, causing 60% of all deaths globally or nearly 35 million deaths every year. Non-communicable diseases (NCDs), also sometimes commonly referred to as chronic diseases, include cardiovascular disease (heart disease, hypertension and stroke), diabetes, lung diseases, cancer, and mental illnesses. Previously thought of as diseases […]
“He who would combat false consciousness and awaken people to their true interests has much to do, because the sleep is very deep. And I do not intend here to provide a lullaby but merely to sneak in and watch the way people snore” (Goffman 1974:14). Pierre Bourdieu shortly after Goffman’s death thus aptly […]
The Universal Law of Attraction states that we beckon those into to our life who push our buttons, trigger us, and reflect back to us our wounds and darkness. When a relationship goes sour, most of us vow: NOT AGAIN. “I won’t fall in love, again,” we tell ourselves and our friends. However, time […]