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Year: 2020
Positive Affirmation: I Appreciate Myself
By Adwaita Das Have you looked in the mirror and told yourself “I love you”? Each one of us is doing so much. We deserve our appreciation. Let’s give ourselves our love and acceptance. Check out more…
Learning to Grieve with Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
By Arpita Das Grief lives in the body, someone said. After my father’s death I began to understand what that insightful set of words meant. At inopportune moments, especially in a closed room with several people, I would feel my…
Mindscape 2: Young Mental Health Book Excerpt
As you may have heard, our new book on Young Mental Health is out. It’s nothing if not a massive, collective endeavour. We wanted to share some of the insights, and the solid, moving foreword that Dr Amit Sen shared…
Affirmation: I Allow Myself to Express Myself
By Adwaita Das In this evolving world, we are adjusting to changes, reorienting ourselves in spaces. It is essential that we express our truth. The truth can bring revolution. The truth can heal. Check out more…
Mindscape Series: New Book on Young Mental Health Launched
We did it! Book 2 in the Mindscape Series: Young Mental Health has been released. It was so wonderful to have a stellar panel to launch our book. Buy Book Two in the Mindscape series: Young Mental Health We promised…
Covid-19 and You: Grief, Mental Health and Julian Barnes’ Nothing to Be Frightened Of
By Arpita Das We are being told by mental health practitioners and armchair experts time and again as the pandemic rages that what we are feeling right now, this heaviness, the lassitude, the pain in our gut, is grief. As…
Affirmations in the time of Covid-19: I Allow Myself to Transform
By Adwaita Das The world is facing enormous changes in industry and lifestyle. We are manoeuvring with new modes of existence. Change can be good. Yes, it can be disorienting. But, we can emerge evolved. It is ok…
Covid-19 and You: Therapist Dr Shelja Sen Shares a Message for the Batch of 2020
We asked noted Child & Adolescent Psychologist and Family Therapist, Dr Shelja Sen, a noted author and co-founder of Children First, to share her thoughts for the Batch of 2020 and their parents. Here is her message below! Do read…
You are Unique: A Therapist’s Message to the Class of 2020
By Varkha Chulani I’m addressing the graduating class of 2020, congratulations on your graduation! You must remember at this time when the world has turned on its head and Covid-19 has disrupted every aspect of life, you are a unique…