By Adwaita Das Old patterns can cling to chaos. Social conditioning can pull towards pain. But this is a new age. This is the time of the new you. Let there be a fresh love story. Fall in…
Tag: Emotional Health
Affirmations: I Will Sleep Easy
By Adwaita Das Also Check Out More Affirmations by Adwaita Das About the artist: Adwaita is an author-filmmaker-artist. Her books Colours of Shadow, 27 Stitches, and Songs of Sanity deal with mental health awareness. Karon Kolkata Ebong Onyo Golpo, her debut…
Anger Management: Tips to Deal
By Sukanya Sharma This is part two of an interview with Consultant Psychiatrist Dr Hozefa A Bhinderwala. Read Part One: Anger and Us What are tips to have an emotionally healthy relationship with ourselves? The most important thing is to accept that…
Pride and Love: How to Navigate Intimacy and Emotional Health
This article is part of our FREEDOM SERIES; in the run-up to Valentine’s Day and as we aim to upend the mass-market cookie cutter romance-celebrations, we’re taking a closer look at Relationships. Whether you’re out and proud or trying to…
Emotional Abuse: Move Past Commentary to Compassion
By Scherezade Siobhan My client H is a bright-eyed software engineer with an envious fountain of noodle curls for hair. In her first session, we actually bond over the implicit politicisation of women’s hair as she declares she would do…
Loneliness and Us
By Sukanya Sharma Britain made headlines earlier this year when the government appointed a Minister of Loneliness, and while India hasn’t made any such move yet, it wouldn’t be surprising if more countries feel the need to follow suit. Loneliness…
Gaslighting: Getting Help and Healing
By Scherezade Siobhan This is Part 2 of a Series on Gaslighting. Read Part One, GASLIGHTING: RED FLAGS The logical question that follows any discussion about the red flags of gaslighting– How does someone heal from this kind of abuse?…
Gaslighting: Red Flags
By Scherezade Siobhan In recent times, we have all observed widespread and complicit attempts at gaslighting women in public and personal spheres. Whether it is questioning the veracity of assault survivors and their stories or continued social media targeting of a…
Food, Nutrition, Well-Being and…You
By Sukanya Sharma You are what you eat… is increasingly you are how you eat. Many of us have a conflicted relationship with food — some of us “eat our feelings”, some of us are very mindful of what we’re…
What is Love?
Relationships 101 with Dr Achal Bhagat One of the commonest questions I’m asked is: What is this thing called love? I say to people and it’s not about falling in love it’s about working on a relationship; it’s about…