Chidera+Onyeka ♾️

Layers of Us

Society EN ↓ 3 episodes

Layers of Us is a soft, reflective audio diary about identity, grief, healing, and the quiet becoming that happens after life changes you. Born from a dream shared between two sisters, and carried forward in love, this Aud gently explores the emotional layers that shape who we are, the ones we grow through, the ones we shed, and the ones we finally learn to embrace. Hosted by Stephanie, each episode is an intimate conversation about selfhood, resilience, memory, and transformation. A home for reflection. A home for healing. A home for becoming yourself again.

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Chidera+Onyeka ♾️

Episodes

Start Before You’re Ready - A Christmas Eve Conversation 24.12.2025 22:39

It's Christmas Eve, and I'm recording this straight into my phone. My microphone is broken, but I'm showing up anyway, because sometimes that's what it looks like. In this episode, I'm talking about: Why I'm sitting out Detty December this year and what it means to be out of sync with everyone else's energy The layer I'm holding this week: my first Christmas without my sister Why we shouldn't w...

The Becoming - on, off, still aligned. 17.12.2025 34:37

I used to be the gym girl. Five times a week. Two years straight. And then my sister died. And I stopped being that person. In this episode, I take you through my struggle with becoming, the gym I can't get to, the writing that stops and starts, the surprising journey of this audio diary. The gap between who I want to be and who I actually am on a Tuesday morning when everything feels impossible....

For Chidera - The First Layer of Us 09.12.2025 25:13

In this first episode of Layers of Us, I take you back to July 2025, the moment my life split into "before" and "after." My sister Chidera died five months ago. She was 27 years old. And in this episode, I'm sharing something I've never shared publicly before: her voice. You'll hear a recording of us together. Talking. Laughing. Being sisters. Before everything changed. And you'll hear me in the a...