Let’s talk about Mental Health -with Phumzile Langa-Dube

Today on Change Conversations, I speak with Phumzile Langa-Gumbi, a psychology, as well as a speech and drama alumnus. Phumzile was a talent scout at the Playhouse where she worked with many artists. Later, she ventured into human resources, where she was in charge of executive placement, training, talent management, and policy formulation dealing with employees. She has dabbled in everything from cooking to copywriting, and the list goes on and on.

In our episode today, we speak about mental health, Phumzile talks about how she believes in the adage “a healthy people, means a healthy nation.” Phumzile says we are a traumatic and traumatized people who shy away from addressing the root causes of this monster called mental health. As a nation, we have a culture of entitlement and waiting for someone to come and help us…rather than being empowered. She defines mental health is finding balance in the way of our life across the wheel of life. What is important for her is to have people unlearn certain things that are not working, secondly, as far as mental health is concerned,  let’s start talking about mental health and be as real as possible.

 

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IG:@PhumiGumbi

E:gumbiphumi@gmail.com

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