Nigerian rapper, podcaster, and entreprenuer, Eva Alordiah, has opened up about how depression made her rediscover herself.
The talanted artiste, who has been away from the music scene for a while, made it known that she battled deep depression for a long time but was able to use it as a tool to discover other positive things about herself.
The femcee took to Twitter to share a series of tweets about her experience, how she survived, and to announce that she is back in the studio making music. Part of her tweet read:
5 years ago I gave up my dream of becoming the greatest female rapper in Africa. I was suffering a deep, dark depression. Today I own a Tech Start-up, I have new life & I’m Recording again! Here’s what I have learned about giving up your dreams, Depression & Finding yourselfYou are an Artist, You are NOT your Art. Over the years I had become identified with what I did —Eva The Rapper – I didn’t know myself beyond that. It has taken years of persistent introspection, meditation & patience to know myself and stand apart from my work.I now understand the Depression as a Spiritual experience- a shedding of old layers, the stripping away of illusion, a coming face to face with all that isn’t so I can see what IS I am not my thoughts, I am not my Body. I am not my accomplishments. I AM The Depression was the pathway to my Awakening. It forced me to give up who I thought I was, to block off everyone else and their dogmas, and to accept a state of nothingness. I found peace when I accepted myself as No thing, No one, No me.
5 years ago I gave up my dream of becoming the greatest female rapper in Africa.
I was suffering a deep, dark depression.
Today I own a Tech Start-up, I have new life & I’m Recording again!Here’s what I have learned about giving up your dreams, Depression & Finding yourself
— Eva Alordiah (@EvaAlordiah) March 1, 2022
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