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Gugu and Domie Foundation Focus Areas-Advocacy: Improved emergency response

Empowerment of Young Lives, Saving Futures.Raise awareness, advocate for change, and support young people struggling with mental health, substance abuse, and physical wellbeing.

Truth
15/08/2026

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Please supportBethany Nunn Sayi
14/08/2026

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Bethany Nunn Sayi

Support Bethany on this wonderful work for her friend Gugu Nunn
27/07/2026

Support Bethany on this wonderful work for her friend Gugu
Nunn

Thanks Bethany
06/07/2026

Thanks Bethany

02/07/2026

Reflecting about grief burnout: Everyone talks about burnout these days. We hear about work burnout, parenting burnout, caregiver burnout, and the exhaustion that comes from constantly doing too much.But hardly anyone talks about grief burnout.
Grief burnout is real. It's the kind of exhaustion that comes from carrying loss, sadness, disappointment, worry, and heartache for so long that your mind, body, and soul simply become tired.Sometimes grief comes from losing someone we love. Sometimes it comes from losing a relationship, our health, our independence, our sense of security, or the life we thought we would have. Sometimes we are grieving the person we used to be before life changed us.The thing about grief burnout is that it often goes unnoticed because it doesn't always look like grief. It can look like withdrawing from people, feeling numb, losing interest in things you once enjoyed, struggling to make simple decisions, forgetting things, being irritable, or feeling exhausted no matter how much you sleep.You can smile, go to work, take care of your family, and still be carrying a heart that is completely worn out.People may say, "You're so strong," without realising that strength can be exhausting too. Sometimes being strong means you've been surviving for so long that you've forgotten what it feels like not to carry such a heavy load.If someone seems different, quieter, distant, or not quite themselves, please choose kindness. You never know what grief they are carrying behind closed doors.And if this is you, if you're tired in a way that rest doesn't fix, if your heart feels heavy and your spirit feels worn down, please know that you're not weak, and you're not failing. You may simply be experiencing grief burnout.Not all burnout comes from doing too much.
Sometimes it comes from hurting for too long.So be gentle with yourself. Grief has no timetable, healing isn't a race, and carrying loss for a long time can leave even the strongest people exhausted.Take the rest you need. Ask for support when you can. Give yourself permission to feel what you feel.Because grief doesn't just break our hearts sometimes—it can completely wear us out.

27/06/2026

The Journey of the Grieving Mom 💔
My healing is into writing.Cant sleep!!!
Is it grief, post-menopause, or the heat wave? It’s 4am writing this but , I hardly slept last night. I woke up feeling exhausted, emotional, and completely drained. My body felt hot, my mind was racing, and I found myself asking, What is going on with me? Is it grief? Is it post-menopause? Or is this heat making everything worse? The truth is, it could be all three. Grief doesn't just break our hearts; it affects our whole bodies. It can rob us of sleep, leave us exhausted, make us anxious, forgetful, emotional, and feeling unlike ourselves.Post-menopause can bring many of the same symptoms—night sweats, hot flushes, poor sleep, fatigue, mood changes, and brain fog. For many women, these symptoms don't simply disappear once menopause is over.Then comes the heat wave. Extreme heat can make sleep even harder, increase fatigue, worsen hot flushes, and leave us feeling irritable and overwhelmed.
When you're grieving, your body is already carrying a heavy burden. Add hormonal changes and hot weather, and it's no wonder some days feel impossible. So today, if you're exhausted, tearful, struggling to sleep, or wondering why you're not coping as well as you used to, please be gentle with yourself. Drink some water. Rest if you can. Lower your expectations for the day. Ask for help if you need it and most importantly, remember this: You are not losing yourself. You are responding to loss, change, and stress all at once.
As grieving mums, or widows , or anyone who has lost a loved one ,we often expect ourselves to be strong all the time, but our bodies and hearts are carrying more than anyone can see.
Today, give yourself permission to slow down, to grieve, to rest, and to show yourself the same compassion you so freely give to others.Healing isn't linear, and neither is grief. One day at a time, one breath at a time, we keep going. ❤️

Move On : People say ‘move on’ because they are uncomfortable with grief, not because grief has an end point. I get you ...
27/05/2026

Move On : People say ‘move on’ because they are uncomfortable with grief, not because grief has an end point. I get you .A parent does not move on from the loss of a child. You learn, somehow, to carry unbearable love and unbearable pain at the same time.My brain and heart are still in the moment my daughter took her last breath, and now with son gone too, grief does not simply disappear because time passes. ‘Move on’ feels dismissive because it ignores the reality that loss changes a person forever.What I am doing is not refusing to live — I am learning to navigate life in a world that no longer looks the way it once did. I am surviving, adapting, and carrying memories that matter every single day.I do not need to be told to move on. I need understanding, patience, and compassion.You move on from places, jobs, and phases of life. You do not move on from losing people you love. You learn to live around the grief, but it remains part of you.Love you all Shalom 💙

Hey everyone. Today marks one year since I laid my daughter Gugu to rest. She passed on the 12th, and we said our final ...
23/05/2026

Hey everyone.
Today marks one year since I laid my daughter Gugu to rest. She passed on the 12th, and we said our final goodbye on the 23rd. And then on the 27th of January, her brother Domie suddenly joined her in Heaven. I like to believe they found each other again. That they’re together, watching over us, laughing like they used to.Gugu,Domie you are my babies forever. I carry you in everything I do — in my smile, in my tears, in the name Mma Gugu, Mma Domie that I’ll never let go of.If you’re reading this, please say their names today. Share one memory. Keep them alive with us.
Thank you for loving my children.

Forever your Mama, Pheebs.

23/05/2026

Remembering you my baby

21/05/2026

It’s not only the loss is the silence ,confusion , dot , said and unsaid ….the lonely journey

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