Vivienne Ferife

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[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

@annieejiofor looooooooooool!!! girlll🤣🤣

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

@Dr_ValID download this! 😄❤️

[Ayomide Ajayi-John @mista_aj_]

Back in April, my wife and I launched Spondle to be the family hub that takes shopping, chores, calendars and everything the home runs on from your head into one shared system.

I've never posted it here, but this is the video from when we launched, and the why behind it. 👇

[Hala Gorani @HalaGorani]

When someone from a minority group does something wrong, using it as evidence that their race or religion is inferior, and that neither they nor anyone else from that group is deserving of status, while remaining silent when others make similar mistakes is 100% racism. I’m not sure how anyone can seriously frame that as some kind of quest for truth.

[Tim Walker @ThatTimWalker]

A lot of people told me what a lovely guy Jason was, including @Halima_Begum. I found this tribute to him from her today very moving. I wish I’d got to meet him.

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

@Dr_ValID 🤭🤭

[Sean Cranston @themoviedadsc]

Wives anytime they see their husband relaxing:

[Sean Cranston @themoviedadsc]

Wives anytime they see their husband relaxing:

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

@IamToyinRoberts @metronaija @flakydancindoc first thing i thought.

[Argo Memes @ArgyleMemes]

Driving to work after staying up to watch #MexEng.

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

Love the Obamas❤️ Gosh!

[Oluebube @Dr_ValID]

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Nicki 🫧🪷 @nickimoraa]

This lady on TikTok said “There’s no reward for being a low maintenance woman.” I like that shit cause she’s absolutely right.

[Hannah Cox @HannahDCox]

A lot of misery comes from making sacrifices no one asked you for and that no one will notice.

This is why the matching energy advice is mostly good for women (because they’re more prone to self-sacrifice).

If he’s golfing on the weekend go get a facial. If he’s not helping with chores, hire a housecleaner. If he doesn’t cook, make girl dinners. And if he objects then you can negotiate a mutually beneficial arrangement and he’ll start to see the other side of the coin.

I’m convinced that men are best communicated with through actions, not words, and not you getting passive aggressive over things they don’t notice because they’re less attuned to the world around them.

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

this made me laugh a little bit tooo much!🤣🤣😭

[Mednomics @mednomics]

Pneumocystis jerovecii when CD4 levels falls below 200 ⬇️

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

The Couch to 5K app is the absolute best! like Whaaaaaaat! 😄💪🏽

[Anita Ejiofor @annieejiofor]

Run days are fast becoming my favourite days of the week. Glad I went from thinking about running to actually running. Fairly consistently I must say. Cheers to the couch to 5k app!

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Today, as Lent begins, I’m sending my best wishes to Christians in the UK and around the world.

As you follow Christ’s example of sacrifice and renewal, you embody the spirit of public service that strengthens our communities.

Thank you for all you do.

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

Such a beautiful collection! ❤️

[Mádé Kuti @madeakuti]

My wife @nedokuti and I are celebrating Valentine’s a little differently this year ❤️

We collaborated with @LizandcoNg and @everystylishman to create designs that are meaningful and deeply rooted in culture and love 💙

Thoughtfully made for you and yours.
We hope you love it as much as we do.

Shop the collection🔗⬇️
https://t.co/voNgaORsNa

HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

i come out to M&S a day before valentine’s day every year just to seee men frantically buying flowers 🤣🤣😍❤️ Love ittttttt for womennn😃🤣

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

Little wins for January 2026 ✨
Learning to trust myself again by doing things I said i’ll do! 💕

✅ Back swimming- three improver swimming sessions attended
✅ Back cycling- Four classes attended
✅I’ve passed my first Interim ESR for GP training ST1
✅I’ve sat the Public health Assessment centre again 😆
✅I’ve finalised my baby’s nursery plans for April
✅I’ve completed my audiobook of the month ‘The Checklist Manifesto’
✅Added a few extra pounds to my personal savings
✅Posted my first article on X, engaged more times than ever in a single month. Gained one new follower.

[Vivienne Ferife @DrVivv]

Started reading ‘the power of a praying wife’ by Stormie Omartian with my girlfriends who are also wives. We have really come a long way- from boarding school till now. God has been too good to us all! Women growing in grace through and through! Love it for us ❤️