{"id":103682,"date":"2021-02-10T12:35:08","date_gmt":"2021-02-10T17:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/?p=103682"},"modified":"2025-05-14T10:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T14:32:17","slug":"the-radical-power-of-self-love-in-a-world-that-tells-us-who-we-should-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/en\/the-radical-power-of-self-love-in-a-world-that-tells-us-who-we-should-be\/","title":{"rendered":"The radical power of self love in a world that tells us who we should be"},"content":{"rendered":"<h6><span style=\"color: #000000;\">PART I &#8212;-<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It took enduring the writing process for 9 months, along with a life-long list of lessons learned, for Sam Ncube to birth her baby: a poetry debut book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things You Need to Hear Most<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Her life, leading up to 2020 seemed pretty charmed. Ncube had partnered with a friend to build <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Find Your Tribe<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">; a community that gathered women of color and allowed them to build each other up through their shared stories. She was meeting people and growing her network. But all of that came to an abrupt halt when Ncube became terribly ill early 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u201cAt the beginning of quarantine I fell really sick; up until then I had been living a life where I was always on the go and, I didn\u2019t realize it at the time, but I was living inauthentically to myself. I got severely depressed,\u201d says Ncube.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Ncube realized she needed to slow down and take things as they came. So she took a step back from all her commitments and sought out a therapist and a naturopath to facilitate her healing. Her ailment? A major vitamin D deficiency.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">In those moments, where her pace of life had reduced significantly, Ncube found herself doing two things more: spending time outside in nature, under the sun, and spending time in her journal &#8211; penning her thoughts to the prompt: what do I need to hear right now. In so doing, her perspective on nature completely shifted.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think about 3-4 months later I looked at my journal and the notes I had on my phone and read the stuff and was like \u2018wow, I actually need to hear this right now\u2019 and that\u2019s where the book idea came from because I think other people need to hear this too. I have a collection of them, let me compile it. I thought back to the process of creating it and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things You Need To Hear Most <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[as a title] just made sense,\u201d says Ncube.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-104623\" src=\"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Samukele-Ncube-2-768x1024-1.jpg\" alt=\"Samukele Ncube\" width=\"500\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Samukele-Ncube-2-768x1024-1-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Samukele-Ncube-2-768x1024-1-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Samukele-Ncube-2-768x1024-1-400x533.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Samukele-Ncube-2-768x1024-1-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Samukele-Ncube-2-768x1024-1.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/>Inspired by the butterfly\u2019s journey, Ncube split her book into four parts; \u201cthe first chapter is about the egg, you\u2019re born into the world still learning how things go; the next one is the caterpillar where you\u2019re taking everything in; then there\u2019s the cocoon, it\u2019s about the breaking\/unseen healing, all the pain and growth that people don\u2019t see; and then, the butterfly that emerges throughout that whole process; a creature that is beautiful and healed and spreading love.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">For the first time in her life, Ncube wasn\u2019t living according to others\u2019 perceptions or expectations of her. She wasn\u2019t submitting to the messages of \u201cbeing [a] woman of grace, poise, and only get As\u201d which she received incessantly as a young high school student in Zimbabwe; or to the competition of university; or to how society expected her to participate in \u2018hustle culture\u2019 by \u201calways [being] \u2018on,\u2019 or doing something.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u201cSo all around the message is [to] grind yourself, be a robot, go go go,\u201d says Ncube.<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">PART II &#8212;-<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">But when Ncube became sick, all of that went out the window. \u201cIn discovering self-love, for the first time I decided to choose me even if choosing me meant walking away from the things that I thought made me stand out in this world.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In choosing herself, she decided to try new things and ultimately became a yoga instructor. After attending <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Teach Your Truth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, she began incorporating movement, meditation and creation into her daily activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u201cWhen I got better and had more energy,\u201d Ncube begins, \u201cwhat I would do would be movements, usually in the form of yoga or I would go biking and then I would sit down and meditate. Words just started entering my mind and I would write it down. My writing process was more of a spiritual practice.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Despite enjoying her new change of pace, Ncube was still struggling with the changes she was making. \u201cI cried so much. It was hard&#8230;especially letting go of the community. It took a lot of work. It felt like I was losing a bit of my identity. I felt like, if I\u2019m not doing all these things, who am I? What value do I bring to the world?\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Ncube is not alone in thinking one\u2019s community has to be vast and wide. \u201cBefore, I used to think that a community was like 10 million people in the room; through this process I\u2019ve learned it could be like one, two, or three people who are like home. They really helped to remind me that I am loved as I am, not through the things I do. Me as a person.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">So she kept spending time in nature. And she kept journaling. And she kept prioritizing herself. In so doing, with the help of her therapist, she discovered what her core values were.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u201cWhile working with my therapist, she gave me these things called \u2018values cards.\u2019 You go through them and decide on your gut reaction what resonates with you. You narrow it down to 5 and those are your core values. Doing that helped me understand the lens I use to see the world and what guides me. They ended up being peace, love, joy, and health.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">As Ncube worked to get a better grasp on her core values, she realized she had to unlearn some habits she picked up from her mother and from her African heritage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u201cI was raised by a single mom who always did everything. I always feel like I need to be able to do everything\u2026.with africans as well, it\u2019s all about community &#8211; which is fantastic and I think it\u2019s so important, but sometimes it\u2019s a huge focus on community to the detriment of the individual. You give yourself even when you have nothing left to give. I really want to focus on refilling your cup first in order to overflow. When you\u2019re full, that\u2019s when your goodness can overflow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">With a better understanding of her values, and her self-care accounted for, Ncube could now turn more outwards towards her community; thus following the words of her mentor, Alex Elle, who has said, \u201cself-care is community care.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">PART III &#8212;-<\/span><\/h6>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u201c[Being selfish] needs to be reframed as being self-full, Ncube says, \u201cwhen you show up on a day where you\u2019re well rested, have eaten well&#8230;the way you deal with certain situations is very different depending on your state.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">And so, Ncube started to lean on her new-found community and asked for help. \u201cI feel like I\u2019ve discovered who the people [are] that really align with who I am and I leaned deeper into those relationships; I found a lot of people from my past resonate with me now [on this part of my journey] even though I haven\u2019t spoken to them in years; and I have met new people on this journey who I feel are aligned and share similar values.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So she reached out to friends who connected her to other friends or gave her advice on promotion. \u201cThe reception of my work has been incredible. I reached out to a friend who works in media asking for help and her response was one of joy at being <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">able <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to help.\u201d<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-104622\" src=\"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TYNTHM-Stairs-cover-770x513-1.jpg\" alt=\"Couverture de livres dans un escalier en b\u00e9ton\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TYNTHM-Stairs-cover-770x513-1-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TYNTHM-Stairs-cover-770x513-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TYNTHM-Stairs-cover-770x513-1-400x266.jpg 400w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TYNTHM-Stairs-cover-770x513-1-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TYNTHM-Stairs-cover-770x513-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sayaspora.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/TYNTHM-Stairs-cover-770x513-1.jpg 770w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Friends and strangers alike are sharing and reposting her work on social media. \u201cI heard someone say that&#8230;when you don\u2019t ask for help, you\u2019re robbing someone the opportunity\/joy of having helped you create whatever is important to you\u2026.as a first time author, first time poet, it means so much that my journey and these words are resonating with people on this level.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This may be her first book, but Ncube has high aspirations. She can\u2019t wait to see <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Things You Need To Hear Most <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on the New York Times Best Sellers list. All of this is leading up to her writing a fantasy series rooted in African Mythology.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">\u201cI\u2019m walking in alignment, finally,\u201d says Ncube.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">For all other aspiring writers reading this, Ncube has a message to share with you: \u201cyour voice as a writer is so unique the world needs it, someone in the world needs to hear it. It\u2019s not just about you, it\u2019s about the impact of your word on other people. If your self-motivation isn\u2019t enough, think of someone else who could be missing out on whatever message you have to share if you don\u2019t write.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400; color: #000000;\">Prior to 2020, Ncube\u2019s life seemed pretty under control; but the life she was living wasn\u2019t the life she actually wanted. As she underwent this journey of healing, growth, and discovery, she realized the answers she seeked were always within her. She hopes to continue radically loving herself by healing, growing, and discovering&#8230;and inviting others to do the same for themselves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><i>Things You Need To Hear Most <\/i>is out everywhere as of February 14th. You can find Sam Ncube on Instagram: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/thesamncube\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@thesamncube<\/a>.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PART I &#8212;- It took enduring the writing process for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104621,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[238],"tags":[247],"couleur":[],"etiquette-darchives":[],"type-de-ressource":[],"class_list":["post-103682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-magazine-en","tag-self-care"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The radical power of self love in a world that tells us who we 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