MENTAL HEALTH GUIDES, WRITTEN BY PSYCHOLOGISTS
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Essays, stories and reflections
Essays, stories and reflections on mental health and everyday life in India, written by psychologists.
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Behaviour Change
Small Habits, Big Change for Your Mental Health
Wondering why your habits are so hard to break? Find out how small changes can make a big impact on your mental health. Here’s...
Atomic Habits
Atomic Habits: Boost Your Mental Health in Minutes
mall habits, big impact. Learn how tiny changes can make a huge difference to your mental health with techniques from Atomic Habits. Start small,...
Failing Forward: The Power Behind Setbacks
Learn how to overcome the fear of failure with actionable tips, reframing setbacks as opportunities, and building resilience in the face of challenges.
Navigating Life’s Transitions Leads to Growth
Discover how to embrace life’s big transitions with practical tips, real-life examples, and ways to manage stress, uncertainty, and self-doubt. Embrace growth through change.
Identity
Why Talking About Our Parents Is So Hard
Talking about our parents in therapy feels vulnerable because it confronts how childhood shaped our worth, trust, and coping. This blog explores why it...
Anxiety
Period Stigma is Holding Women Back
PMS is more than mood swings; it’s a mental health struggle often dismissed by stigma. Let’s break the silence and treat women’s health with...
Adulting
Why Choosing Comfort Over Growth Is a Mistake
This explores the tough decisions that lead to growth, even when they bring discomfort. It inspires embracing uncertainty for personal transformation.
Ageing & Loneliness
Loneliness After Losing a Spouse: The Unnamed Grief
Nandita came to me seven months after her husband died and did not want to talk about the death. She wanted to talk about...
Building Mental Resilience
Enhance Resilience Through Mindfulness: Discover How Our Introspective Journals Support Stress Reduction and Emotional Balance
Discover how mindfulness can enhance resilience with our Introspective Journals. This blog explores the benefits of mindfulness in stress reduction and emotional balance. Learn...
dating
Ghosting to Guessing: Why We Stay in Uncertain Relationships
Ghosting, icing, and simmering are modern dating behaviors that reflect a lack of direct communication, leading to ambiguous relationships. These strategies cause emotional pain,...
Healthy Relationships
Moving for Love, Losing Yourself—and Finding You Again
When Priya moved to Mumbai for her husband’s job, she didn’t expect to feel so lost. But loneliness, identity shifts, and new beginnings came...
domestic violence
Breaking Trauma Cycles: What ‘It Ends With Us’ teaches us even in the Indian context.
Intergenerational trauma shapes more of our lives than we realise. Using It Ends With Us as a mirror, this piece explores how trauma...