{"id":236079,"date":"2025-09-28T15:16:20","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.name.ng\/news\/my-daughter-brought-me-healing-from-childhood-trauma-toke-makinwa-opens-up\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T15:16:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T15:16:20","slug":"my-daughter-brought-me-healing-from-childhood-trauma-toke-makinwa-opens-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/my-daughter-brought-me-healing-from-childhood-trauma-toke-makinwa-opens-up\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018My Daughter Brought Me Healing From Childhood Trauma\u2019 \u2013 Toke Makinwa Opens Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">\n<h2>Nigerian media personality, Toke Makinwa, has opened up about how becoming a mother brought her healing.<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Abia Radio News<\/strong> recalls that Toke, who gave birth to her first child in August, 2025, lost her parents in a fire incident when she was a child.<\/p>\n<p>In a post via X on Saturday, September 27, Makinwa said her daughter, Yakira Eliana, is helping her heal from childhood trauma and grief she thought she had buried a long time ago.<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3 ai-track\" data-ai=\"WzMsMCwiSXNhYWMiLCIiLDRd\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<a rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.myafrilearn.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1040405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.naijanews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-09-26-at-04.47.19.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>She wrote, \u201c<em>My daughter brought me healing, she is daily healing parts of me I didn\u2019t even know needed healing, healing from my childhood trauma, from grief I thought I had dealt with a long time ago. God knew I needed this.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Toke recently spoke\u00a0about her past marriage, sharing insights on her survival, inner strength, and the misunderstandings she faced from the public.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with media personality Chude Jideonwo, the mother of one reflected on the challenges of enduring a highly public relationship and the judgments people made without understanding her experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Toke explained that people often misinterpret resilience, assuming situations were not difficult because she remained alive and continued her life.<\/p>\n<p>She said that many are unsettled by others\u2019 ability to recover and grow stronger, sometimes feeling threatened rather than inspired by someone\u2019s journey through hardship.<\/p>\n<p><!-- CONTENT END 4 --><\/p>\n<hr\/>\n<p><span class=\"copyright\"><strong>\u00a9 2025 Abia Radio News, a division of  Tee Global Innnovations  [abiaradios@gmail.com].  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In a post via X on Saturday, September 27, Makinwa said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":236080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[1508,1509],"class_list":["post-236079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-toke-makinwa","tag-toke-makinwa-baby"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Toke-Makinwa-1000x600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236079","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}