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Pdf and E-pub versions of the book entitled: Comfort and Other Traps, Oblivion and Other Lies...
'Comfort and Other Traps, Oblivion and Other Lies is a book I wrote wile navigating a complex asylum case laced in political oppression and corporate fraud while facing new challenges where my family and I fled. While designing was always a way to escape, I had to face the facts and some point. Challenged in ways beyond just the case and financial concerns, I was also troubled about the trajectory of my life; feeling out of control.
It caught up with me as an opportunity came knocking on my door, and that's when I needed to write. I couldn't understand why I couldn't cope with unexpected emotional shifts until I became aware of how trauma lives in the body. I also learned that it needed to be resolved. By then, I wrote a few lines on two notebooks. One would be for South Africa. The other would detail my experiences in Ireland, which were continuing to rob me and my sister of our peace.
These two notebooks would eventually become two parts in the book. I'd write in whichever one I felt needed to be dealt with at a certain time. When I started, I loathed writing about my experiences South Africa but I had to. That was the source of many pent up anxieties and fears. Writing about Ireland was more about documenting the ongoing persecution instead of the peace of mind we were seeking. For a long time, our privacy was harvested. After a while, it has such a profound effect on you. It certainly did for me. In a desperate move to survive, I started writing.
I felt that my prayers had started to be answered at the time. But I needed to put in work to resolve issues in my heart and mind and also the asylum case that I liked pretending wasn't there. And so, after all these years since then, the book had to be completed. Realities needed to be exposed. Even though I sensed that there's so much more I could have furnished in the book, and I knew it was far from perfect, I had to practice the iterative thinking in UX, which steers away from this notion of perfect all at once. So, the book is now published. I hope you enjoy it.