Skip the Rope to Skip the Rope Challenge

Every day I meet interesting people. I meet boring people too, a boring person is also important.

I met MD Njiru the artist at a writers workshop and promptly thought his jokes were off-colour, though I had a mouth infection and wasn't feeling funny. But something about his plan to create worldwide awareness on the topic of Suicide quite noteworthy. We exchanged numbers and I had no idea how big the incentive was going to be.

 In the few weeks that followed I was added to a group on WhatsApp that totally blew my mind, seeing the proposed topics, seeing the experts that were listed as speakers, he was onto something.

Among the topics  to tackle are:
1) How to deal with loneliness 
2) How to deal with romantic rejections 
3) How to deal with a cheating  partner and betrayal (we don't  want to hear more acid,and boiling water cases or worse  people  unaliving themselves)
4)Dealing with chronic  pain and terminal illness 
5) Dealing  with unemployment 
6) Dealing  with a toxic work place ( Last year  we saw several medical interns losing their lives)
7) Dealing with life frustrations and disappointments  ( Kuna time tu Mambo huwa haisongi no matter how much you try)
8) A guide on the healing journey for someone who was sexuallly abuser 
A) As a child 
B) As an adult 
To state the obvious, boys are sexually abused....though it's rarely talked about
9)Overcoming body shaming 
10)Healing from childhood and teen bullying 
11)Dealing with Shame, Guilt, and feelings of worthlessness 
12)Dealing with learned hopelessness 
13) Alcohol and substance abuse
14)Managing and learning to live with underlying mental health conditions  like Bipolar, schizophrenia, etc
15) Increased suicidality and LGBTQ link
16) Hopelessness and how to resuscitate hope 
17)Family history  link for people  who have lost sibling(s) or parent(s) and what they can do to reduce the  likelihood of them unaliving themselves 
18)Financial distress 
19) Academic  pressure ( How many university kids shall we lose because of missing marks😭😭🙆🏿‍♂️🙆🏿‍♂️)
20) Also someone to tackle why mental health advocates are  more prone to taking their lives and what should be done to avert that
21)Another  person  to talk to our men and women in uniform

And so I chose number seven. Number seven, because I have lived that life, you know that life when you are pushing in every direction but nothing is happening?

And in fact, that is the main theme in my first book, Going to buy a plot in Maaī Mahiū and other stories is all about. But with a positive outlook towards everything.

I recorded the video, and also read pages from my latest book- Conversations into Adulthood.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DXtYZm3DPDH/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

 In this book, I have opened up the hard conversations, the tough ones, the ones that break us up inside. By having the courage to talk about them, we begin to heal.

https://nuriakenya.com/product/conversations-into-adulthood-by-cecilia-gathoni/

I am looking forward to this event. Md- Moshua is a crazy man. He hopes to make a 24 hour rope skipping record and get into the Guinness Book. I wish him all the best. 

It's better to be crazy than boring.

 The challenge is not easy, but all in all, I think it will accomplish more than he even intended. Imagine 24 hours of free counselling, free therapy. These videos will be available on YouTube even after the event so he has unknowingly created a huge resource that can be used for research, training, education, and as a comfort for anyone that ever felt like giving up.

The event will be live on these channels: copy and paste to  your browser

YouTube

Skip the rope - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/@Skiptherope100 

Joshua Resource Center - YouTube https://m.youtube.com/@JoshuaResourceCenter-o6d

TikTok

https://www.tiktok.com/@skip.the.rope?_r=1&_t=ZS-95oJHh0vTOh

Instagram

https://www.instagram.com/skiptherope100?igsh=OHAwMmxvbjAzdnJv

https://www.instagram.com/joshua_resource?igsh=MXI5OXlkZnF5aTdzbw==

Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61570763973971&mibextid=ZbWKwL

Twitter

https://twitter.com/Josh_ResourceKE?s=09

SKIP THE ROPE- It takes courage to live.