Missionaries of Africa, Jinja

Jean Marie Bamutaze and Gabriel Ouma Participants' quotes from the Trauma Awareness and Resilience workshop: 1.  Not all human beings are human. (M. Longoli) 
 2. Trauma is unforgiveness and love. (M. Matuku) 
 3. Do not allow your trauma worries bring you down. (C.I. Imbusi) 
 4.  Sometimes when I am interested in things, I become bored of the very things. (B. Jean 
Marie) 
 5.  Trauma is dangerous if not processed from our bodies. (S. Onsongo) 
 6.  We are here to pass the examination of life. (Sr T. Namataka) 
 7.  Do not be guilty of your trauma but be responsible. (B. Jean Marie) 
 8.  I am the one to control trauma but not trauma to control me. (P. Muema) 
 9.  It’s only when we realize our trauma that we can come out of them. (P. Wachira) 
 10. We human beings are the cause of our problems and therefore our responsibility to rule them out. (G. Ouma)
 11. Lamenting about trauma is no...

Addiction is defined as a chronic, progressive and relapsing disease of the brain. It is also characterized by attachment. How does it begin? “If I have no attachment, I lose my sense of belonging and therefore I lose my sense of identity”. This will result into a lost self which culminates in low self-esteem with a low mood. One will always live with a desire and longing for something to raise his or her low mood. Chance knocks once. For instance, one day you take the first bottle of beer. You feel excited and a smile breaks on your face (your mood is raised). Some people exclaim, aha! This first excitement is what is termed as the initial high. It is registered in the brain because of the pleasure received due to the influence of dopamine (a hormone responsible for pleasure). The individual will always go for another bottle expecting to experience that very high. Unfortunately, the initial high is never regained even if one “s...