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This chapter is called LOVE & LIFE.

Phew! Chile ... We here.

The last floor before the 4th floor. It's been a hella ride. Every year, we (Michele, Nims and I) seem to think we've been tried and tested, that this "is" the year when things will turn around. But essentially Nina, yes I, have come to realise that every single trial, prepares me for future tribulations. That the harder it gets, the more challenges you get, just to prove that you learned the lesson well !

Did not know, could not imagine that 2024 would teach me new ways to be resilient, that I would find in me new and consistent authenticity and strength, but also, unwavering vulnerability. That accepting I am not all powerful would also lead me to understand that letting go was essentially also letting God (who ever you wish you to call him/her)

To my father, oh how I love you. If I knew that our daily conversations would be me mostly reassuring you today, I would have let you speak more and complained less about your constant repetition. I miss your (real) voice, and while you are here physically and wholeheartedly, I miss that part of you we lost in January, but that you fight so hard each day to bring back to us, to yourself with every effort you put in. If "conquer" was a face and body, it would be YOU no questions asked. A true indomitable lion, a fighter through and through!

With you, for you, because of you, I am a refined and matured version of myself, ready for more. I dedicate this year to you, to your family, to mom, to your children and grandchildren ... Seeing each of them this year was what our souls all needed. I am glad we went through all this and came out better and stronger.

I wanted to share 39 pictures with you yesterday, but I ain't out here trying to spam . Here is A recap of some highlights, there are not enough days in the year to say how much love has been poured into me this year. A very Happy birthday to me, but more importantly a heartfelt thanks for all of you, mines! To be loved is to be seen, inside and out.

#NimsInThe237 #TheAdventuresOfNims #AFamilyCalledOuandji taken in Douala, Cameroon by @nimsmayers

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#TBT the fro! Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you #DrSeuss by @nimsmayers

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11 years ago

25 years ago, I wrote my first blog post, under a pseudonym I am having a hard time remembering. A couple of years after that, The Naked Truth was born, and so was Nims Mayers . I gave you some consistency over the years, but most of all, I gave myself a place to air some of the voices screaming loud in me.

Many of you, continue to be loyal readers, even when I post that one sporadic annual verbage. Thank you, without knowing it, you have all been my therapists over the years.

This may (or not) come as a surprise to some, but 2025 is the year I decided to revive "The Naked Truth", I owe it to me, to bring it back in a consistent manner and to you all as well. I have 25 topics that Nims Mayers is ready to tackle, 25 moments of self awareness or sometimes sheer idiocy.

My question to you, would you want to read the 25 posts as a somewhat autobiography book OR, should I take us down memory lane and post a chapter a week? #NimsRoadTo40 by @nimsmayers

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2 years ago

“Nims is a diplomat. Mayers is what happens when diplomacy has failed.”

For nine years (or more), I took notes on my phone. Getting out of a taxi, stuck in traffic at BP Cité, standing in supermarket queues in Douala, Bangui, or Kinshasa. I told myself I was just gathering funny stories for friends. In reality, I was keeping count.

This project marks the moment I finally let Mayers finish her sentences.

It also marks a couple of fiirsts:

My first writing project conceived and written (almost) entirely in French.

Learning again and again (with Canva). I have always loved learning new things, and I wanted to stop outsourcing the visuals of my words. Designing this carousel myself, figuring out typography, pacing, and visual storytelling, is part of that creative expansion. It is still a work in progress, but the ownership is mine. I will probably revert to the experts on this one, stay tuned.

The naked truth is simply the distance between what Nims said and what Mayers thought. And, occasionally, the noise it makes when that gap closes.

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#TheNakedTruth #Storytelling La vérité et rien que la vérité by @nimsmayers

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July 11, 2026 · Paris

To everyone who sent a message, a call, a voice note, a memory, a prayer, a song, or simply a quiet thought in my direction — thank you. Most especially thank you to my circle that made it possible to have an 'unexpected" Parisian weekend.

Birthdays have a way of reminding you exactly who is in your corner, and mine is fuller than I sometimes remember to notice. I am grateful, deeply, for each of you.

For a long time, I confused holding it together with healing. I thought if I could analyse a story, draw its shape, and name its silences, my heart would obediently fall in line. It doesn't. Thank God. My heart is smarter than my strategy, and it knows the difference between truly letting go and only looking like I have.

I have been my own most loyal companion for a long time. I just didn't always give myself the credit. My birthday gift to myself this year is this: to stop treating my own attention as a consolation prize, and to start treating it as the main event.

A year ago, I published #TheNakedTruthAt40 as a declaration that unsaid words rot the spirit, and that honest living is the only way I know how to move. For months, some of you have carried those digital pages, found your own stories in mine, and asked when you'd finally be able to hold the words in your hands.

I'm so happy to share that the print edition of Book 1 will (finally) officially come out this year.

Holding a physical copy will feel full circle,
a tangible reminder that from every heavy flight, every long silence, and every quiet afternoon in a borrowed room, something durable gets made. You cannot print a ghost. But you can print the truth of a woman who chose herself.

Release dates, pre-orders, and launch details to follow.

Thank you for walking this road with me. Here's to forty-one and to everything still on fire.

Nims
Paris, July 2026 by @nimsmayers

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3 months ago

The hardest thing to do today in this world is to start. Once you start (it's not going to be easy) it gets bearable, once it's bearable it becomes achievable.

We spend so much time waiting for the "perfect" moment, the right mood, or a sign from the universe. The reality is that clarity follows action. You don’t need to see the whole staircase, you just need to take the first step.

Stop overthinking. Start doing.

With my partner in motion and often the biggest motivator @sophyaiida

#TrustTheProcess while honoring all the "do-ers" by @nimsmayers

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6 months ago

Black, is beautiful.
Food is important.
Love, is essential.
Thursday, in the city ... by @nimsmayers

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7 months ago

'The naked truth is that grief is not a storm you pass through. It is the new climate you live in. You don’t get over it, you just learn to navigate the terrain while carrying the weight of the ones who should have been walking beside you." - Nims Mayers

Hey Big Bro, I’m 40 now. Can you believe it? For the last few years, I’ve had to play the "deputy mum" as the siblings call me. The naked truth is that being the anchor is exhausting. I’d give up the title in a heartbeat if it meant I could just be your younger sister again.

I see fragments of you in everyone:

-JP’s quiet corner.
- LL’s fierce opinions.
- EL’s minute questions and attention to detail
- PO’s constant drive to keep us together.

I miss your cheeky smile and those wordy emails full of lessons. I even miss your lectures. I wanted you to know that the troubled 19 year old you were so worried about kinda made it :). I wish I could tell you about the men you’d have threatened, the growing pains of my womb, and that adulting is just hard.

I see your deep eyes in LP and that cheeky childish laugh in AZ and NP. AC is going to be just as amazing as you were as the big bro, and SJ he's a loving bulldozer. Your nieces and nephews are such a joy. They would have loved you. More than anything, I just want to sit across from you with a cup of tea and listen to you talk geopolitics. It still feels like yesterday when you were so violently taken from us.

I have now lived nineteen years without you, but thirteen years of a life you were denied. Tell Mamao we always think of her. It still hurts that she left us on your birthday 18 years ago. This year, I’ve decided to start writing to you again. Perhaps you come back to my dreams tonight.

Happy 46th Birthday, Big Bro. 🕊️

[P.S: The Use of AI seemed appropriate - as an attempt to what you would have looked like today] by @nimsmayers

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8 months ago

The Naked Truth from Dubai: I finally made it. I came for the sheikh and the stay-at-home wife life. (I brought my mum along so she could approve or not)

Spoiler alert: I’m still a marketer ... With my day job !

#TheNakedTruth #Dubai #MarketingLife #PlanB #StillHustling taken in Dubai, United Arab Emirates by @nimsmayers

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9 months ago

A few days ago, a few of you received various versions of the message here - as a way to wish you all a great festive season. From it came my end year reflection. A staple in this household, and one I choose to share with you now because let's face it new year's is overrated 🤣

2025 was a lot. It was heavy, messy, and honest. If you’re still standing, still breathing, and still slightly caffeinated, you’re doing just fine. 🥂

Check the slides for my end of year reflection. (And if you haven't grabbed my e-book #TheNakedTruthAt40 yet, the link is in my bio. A Print version may or may or be birthed in 2026!) taken in Douala, Cameroon by @nimsmayers

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10 months ago

The holidays usually come wrapped in a lot of noise and expectation. We are told to celebrate, to strive, and to reinvent ourselves, but I think there is a simpler truth we often overlook.

This year, I am not wishing you the usual frantic excitement. I am wishing you peace. I want you to find that quiet center where the pressure to perform finally stops. It is in those honest moments, away from the lens of what the world expects, where we actually find our footing.

My hope for you in this coming year is that you encounter your very best self. Not a version of you that is polished for a crowd, but the version that is authentic, grounded, and at rest. May the new year bring you the clarity to see things as they are and the peace to be exactly who you are.

#TheNakedTruth #NimsMayers #NimsInThe237 taken in Doula, Littoral, Cameroon by @nimsmayers

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10 months ago

🤰 SOS! Il y a rupture de stock de bébés (urgence signalée)

Mes mères porteuses préférées, c'est un sujet tellement important, qui nous, enfin vous concerne. Pourquoi me demanderiez-vous ? Parce que 70%, je dis bien 70%, voire 86% de mes "bébés" ont déjà plus de 5 ans. Vous comprenez ce que ça signifie, ça ? J'ai besoin d'un renouvellement immédiat du stock !

Franchement, à partir de 3 ans, je remarque qu'ils s'affirment un peu trop à mon goût. Les "je peux faire tout seul la", c'est un non négociable - j'en peux plus. Les conversations soutenues, et ceux qui balancent entre 2 langues ... C'est bon! Ils ne sont plus impressionnés par les petites visites au parc et les petits bonbons. Soudainement, ça devient complexe de les gérer. Je dois quémander des bisous, avoir des plans concrets genre, la piscine et le trampoline, vous vous rendez compte ?

À 5 ans alors, c'est la catastrophe. Ils me raccrochent au nez pour parler aux cousins. Pour les plus gentils, j'ai droit à des story time à n'en plus finir. Les 7, 8, 9 ans? si je ne suis pas une figurine ou un super héros qui sais assembler des trains, laissez tomber.

Je ne parle même pas des adultes en devenir, ceux qui vont bientôt passer le bac. Les adolescents qui n'ont que "oui tata, merci tata" à la bouche. Si j'essaie de passer 15 minutes avec eux, il y a les contrôles, ou les copains à retrouver. Et pour mon adulte préféré (parce que oui j'avais à peine 12 ans quand je suis devenu maman pour la 1e fois - mais c'est un autre débat ça), il y a la MMA - bref je ne peux pas regarder ce truc, si on le défigure je vais dire quoi ?

Et enfin, les plus complexes, les pré-ados qui ont la science infuse. Eux, je me contente de sourire, la vie arrive.

Ces maternités sont passées (beaucoup) trop vite, je vous avoue. C'est décidé, on recommence. Vous voulez bien ?

Prière d'entrer au Labo.Tata a besoin de nouveaux bébés. Merci d'avance.

Amélioration ou pas ? On prend les paris ! 😂

Entre temps, j'ai dressé mes listes de Noël. j'ai décidé avec le père Noel, que personne n'a été sage (il y a des gens qui attendent du cash dans les tirelire 🤣🫣)

#Maternité #RenewalDeStock #ChristmasIsComing #VieMaVieDeMamanAussi by @nimsmayers

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