Monique's Musings

January 29, 2020

Being Intentional in the Journey

Happy New Year folks! Towards the end of the year, I attended a vision board workshop at church with a good friend and Christian sister called […]

December 30, 2019

Wishing You a Decade of Dependency and Thriving Despite Deficiency

As a teenager, I wasn’t really ‘taught’ how to cook. I moved around a lot. And in every home, I would have tasks like dicing onions […]

December 30, 2019

What Would you tell Your Younger Self?

We’re at the end of 2019 and I, like many others, will be doing the typical end of the year (or in this case, end of […]

November 11, 2019

Is There a Need for Reconciling my Faith and Feminism on the Issue of Virginity?

Recently, the internet was buzzing with news, opinions, and jokes on African-American rapper T.I’s declaration that he regularly takes his daughter for a virginity test. As […]

October 31, 2019

#AboutMyFaith October 2019: A Vlog-post

Not every time writing… sometimes we vlog, eh? As always, I look forward to your thoughts, so drop a comment! Feel free to drag me as […]

October 21, 2019

Making a ‘To-Undo List’ for the #ThrivingThirties

On the 11th of this month, I excitedly entered my third decade of life sharing loads of photos taken by a dear friend Melissa Lucas with […]

September 30, 2019

Let’s talk ‘Spiritual Fathers/Mothers’

Shortly after my last retreat, I had a conversation with one of my friend’s older sister. Since hearing me talk about mental health struggles she- like […]

September 11, 2019

An Open Letter to Myself and other Cameroonians Like ME Who May Need Some Hope

To you, the young start-up CEO with bold dreams and drive and talent struggling to survive in a country that is outright discouraging for business To […]

August 11, 2019

A Lesson From A Recent Retreat

Today marks exactly two months to my 30th Birthday. I always do a sort of retreat towards my birthday, either the week leading up to or […]

July 30, 2019

The Lies We Christians Let Slip…

I regularly find myself faced with a situation where I have to defend my faith based on the gullibility of some ‘Christians’ like these ones in […]

July 17, 2019

The Journey is a Triathlon, But You’ve Been Trained for a Sprint

When I present myself as a doctoral student, a writer, with a youth development organization as well as a regular blogging gig on the side- I […]

June 30, 2019

Let’s be real: Being a Christian Is Hard.

Our churches are beginning to sound like the marketing interns who have been commanded to get a certain number of customers each day. Nearly every message […]