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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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...
first four sessions
What Happens on a Therapy Introduction Call? (Fifteen Minutes, Free, Before You Pay for Anything)
It is fifteen minutes, it is free, and most people spend the hour before it rehearsing. Here is what the call is actually for,...
first four sessions
Should I Continue Therapy? What Happens in the Fourth Session
Most people who stop therapy do not announce it. They stop booking. The fourth session exists so that the decision gets made out loud,...
first four sessions
Is Therapy Working Yet? What the Third Session Is Actually For
Three sessions in, three hours paid for, nothing fixed. This is exactly where people leave. What the third session gives you instead of relief,...
does therapy work
What Happens in the Second Therapy Session? (Why Your Therapist Wants One Bad Friday, Minute by Minute)
The first session gave your therapist a life. The second is after the machinery. Why they want one recent Friday, slowed right down, and...
does therapy work
What to Expect in Your First Therapy Session in India (It Is Not About Fixing Anything Yet)
Rhea came in about Sunday nights. Nobody at home knew she was there. What the first session is for, what you will be asked,...
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...