Healing, Hope and Leadership: Live Again Marks Five Years of Transforming Women’s Lives

For many survivors of domestic violence and abuse, escaping the situation is only the beginning. The emotional wounds often linger long after the physical scars have healed, affecting confidence, relationships, careers, and the ability to rebuild life.

Across Nigeria, thousands of women continue to live with the hidden effects of trauma, often carrying their pain in silence while trying to navigate work, family, and everyday life. While conversations around gender-based violence have become more prominent in recent years, many survivors still struggle to access the emotional support, mentorship, and safe spaces they need to heal and move forward.

It was this reality that inspired Enifome Ogbimi to establish the Live Again Movement—a platform committed to helping women heal from trauma, rediscover purpose, and rebuild their lives after abuse. What began as a response to one of society’s most painful realities has grown into a movement empowering women to move beyond survival and embrace lives of leadership, influence, and impact.

As the organisation celebrates its fifth anniversary, it is convening the Live Again@5 Conference, a landmark gathering designed to inspire healing, strengthen leadership, and equip women to thrive personally, professionally, and socially.

Speaking ahead of the conference, Founder of the Live Again Movement, Enifome Ogbimi, said the event is both a celebration of the lives transformed over the past five years and a renewed commitment to reaching even more women with hope and practical support.

“Live Again has always been about reminding women that their past does not define their future,” she said. “This conference celebrates every woman who chose to rise after adversity and every life that has been transformed through healing, community, and purpose.”

The conference will feature renowned leadership experts, entrepreneurs, coaches, and advocates, including Fela Durotoye, Bankole Williams, Debola Deji-Kurunmi, Ifeoma Chuks-Adizue, and workplace wellbeing specialist Nneka Jethro-Iruobe, who will lead conversations on leadership, emotional healing, resilience, entrepreneurship, purpose, and personal transformation.

A key highlight of this year’s conference is its focus on workplace trauma and employee wellbeing, recognising that many professionals continue to carry unresolved emotional wounds into their workplaces, often affecting productivity, confidence, relationships, and overall wellbeing. Through practical conversations and expert-led sessions, participants will explore how individuals and organisations can create healthier, more supportive environments where healing and professional growth can coexist.

Founded from Ogbimi’s personal journey of overcoming domestic abuse, the Live Again Movement has evolved into a platform providing emotional healing, mentorship, entrepreneurship support, advocacy, and leadership development for women across Nigeria. Over the past five years, the organisation has impacted thousands of women, helping many rebuild their confidence, regain economic independence, and rediscover their purpose.

The conference will also serve as the platform for unveiling several new initiatives, including Live Again Enterprise, a social enterprise created to generate sustainable funding for the movement while creating economic opportunities for women; the Live Again Gender-Based Violence Documentary, aimed at amplifying survivors’ voices and strengthening advocacy efforts; and Live Again for Girls, an initiative designed to equip adolescent girls with life skills, confidence, and resilience before they encounter many of the challenges affecting women later in life.

Expected to attract women leaders, entrepreneurs, professionals, development practitioners, ministry leaders, corporate executives, and advocates from across the country, the conference reflects the movement’s belief that healing is not the end of the journey, it is the beginning of transformation.

For Enifome Ogbimi, helping women recover from trauma has never been the ultimate goal. The greater vision is to see women lead with confidence, build thriving families and businesses, influence their communities, and become living proof that healing is possible.

As the Live Again Movement marks five years of impact, the organisation says it remains committed to creating safe spaces where women can find hope, embrace healing, and discover the courage to live again.