My Daughter Brought Me Healing - Toke Makinwa Speaks On How Becoming A Mother Is Healing Her Childhood Trauma

Toke Makinwa, the popular Nigerian media personality, has spoken up on how becoming a mother has brought her healing. 

Makinwa, who gave birth to her first child, a girl, in August, 2025, lost both her biological parents in a fire incident when she was a child. 

In a post 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. 

“My daughter brought me healing, she is daily healing parts of me I didn’t 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,” she wrote. 

My daughter brought me healing, she is daily healing parts of me I didn’t 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 💕

— Toke Makinwa (@tokstarr) September 27, 2025