15 Inspirational Life Lessons From the Movie Encanto
Like many parents with toddlers, we are watching Disney's hit movie Encanto for the 372nd time. Cuddled on the couch with my little...
Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Nov 19, 2021
- 2 min
Getting in the Habits
A habitual procrastinator, a habitual media consumer, a habitual impulse shopper, a habitual people pleaser, a habitual smoker. Over the...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Nov 12, 2021
- 3 min
Loving Through Conflict
It was an all too familiar pit in the stomach kind of feeling. One of those you get after engaging in a conflict with someone you love....
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Nov 5, 2021
- 2 min
Why Values?
We can all agree that life is a journey. It's twists and turns unpredictable, it's length unknown, no universally proven way to navigate...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Oct 29, 2021
- 4 min
Putting YOU First : The Case For Selfishness
Where were we? So many ways I wanted to begin this blog post. So many lessons earned though internal and external struggles, many...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Jun 11, 2021
- 2 min
Your Worth and Power as a Woman and How to Reclaim It
May all my ladies say "power" No, not THAT kind of power that we confuse true power with. Not the kind the patriarchy modeled to us, one...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- May 29, 2021
- 3 min
Majesty in Waiting : Wisdom of The 'Dead' Tree
We moved into our new home back in December 2020. One of the things we loved about this house was the backyard garden the previous owner...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Jan 2, 2021
- 3 min
2020 : A Chaotic Year of Triumphs
New Year day 2021. I sit looking back at 2020 very fondly. The kind of fondness a year arguably sent from hell does not seem to be...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Oct 30, 2020
- 5 min
Woman in The Arena
Today's morning journal entry had something unusual about it. It was demanding to show up as a blog instead. So I am typing this on my...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Oct 11, 2020
- 3 min
Permission to BE : A Mother's Prayer
On a rather cloudy October morning, I sat overlooking the Atlantic ocean. I am overcome with presence. I am on a getaway to celebrate my...
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- Oct 6, 2020
- 2 min
Do You Belong? An Enlightening Chat With Sebene Selassie
"At the age of thirty-four, while most of my girlfriends hurriedly made babies before their fertility windows closed, I received a...
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Tiemert
- May 7, 2020
- 2 min
Accepting The Unwanted
A man bought a new house and decided that he was going to have a very beautiful lawn. He worked on it every week, doing everything the...
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Tiemert
- Sep 9, 2019
- 6 min
UNSTUCKING YOU : 5 tips for overcoming resistance
It feels like it has been forever since my last blog entry. 8 weeks and 62 calendar days to be exact. I doubt there was a single day that...
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Tiemert Letike
- Jul 9, 2019
- 7 min
The Art of Letting Go
Impermanence. It's the law of the universe. But somehow, unlike anything else in our world, we humans seem to struggle with that concept....
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Tiemert Shimelis Letike
- May 12, 2019
- 3 min
To The Mother In You
I struggle to keep up with weekly blogging, let alone two blogs in one week! I’m A recovering perfectionist and the idea of posting a...
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Tiemert Letike
- May 9, 2019
- 5 min
The Unlikeliest of Friends: Building A Sisterhood With My Husband's Ex Wife
You have just met someone new and a mutual interest seems to be growing. Love bells are ringing. Getting to know each other is in full...
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Tiemert Letike
- Apr 10, 2019
- 1 min
Q&A on Luwame Blog
A few weeks ago, a beautiful human, habesha woman, blogger, mom and wife I admire reached out to me with something exciting. She wanted...
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Tiemert Letike
- Mar 13, 2019
- 5 min
Ethiopia, It's time to stop needing the world to validate you
On Sunday March 10th, I woke up to my social media feed congested with terrible news from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. An Ethiopian Airlines...
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Tiemert Letike
- Mar 8, 2019
- 3 min
Feminine Energy & Patterns of Pain
It's international women's day and I am reflecting on what I am seeing as a phenomenon of feminine energy resurgence. The world, in my...
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Tiemert Letike
- Feb 28, 2019
- 6 min
The Comparison Bug: The Obsession to Compare And How Not to
It used to happen whenever you ran into your high school classmate out of nowhere. You chat about the basics and try to gauge what they...
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