By Asma G Content Warning (CW): This review and book contain references to sexual assault and rape. Unearthed by Chanchal Garg (published in June 2025) is a memoir that is both painful and brave. The book delves into Garg’s early life…
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Grief and Coping with Loss
Loss can make an appearance in the life of any individual at any time. There is no way to prepare yourself for it or a way to know exactly how you might react or respond to a situation such as this when it does emerge.
Grief and Us: How Can We Learn to Cope with Loss?
Coping with grief is an incredibly difficult journey, one that no one should have to face alone. The weight of loss can feel overwhelming. But in the midst of this darkness, there is a flicker of hope that can guide…
What is More Powerful Than This: I Accept Myself
By Adwaita Das Self-acceptance is crucial for our individual and collective wellbeing. Rather than hinder our discipline, accepting the self has the opposite effect: it allows for greater growth on all fronts, including personal and professional. The inner child requires assurance and…
An Affirmation for the New Year: I Let Me Be Me
By Adwaita Das Being our unique selves is essential to evolution itself. Instead of spending energy trying to fit into norms and stereotypes, we can take time to understand who we are really. Then make more and more space to let…
Your Stories: What Does It Mean to Be Strong?
We all have different ways of coping with grief, loss and tragedy. What does it mean when we tell each other, even children, to “be strong”? In this powerful video, long-distance runner Payal Kamat shares with The Health Collective how she found new meaning in being strong and some of her mental health journey.
Start Your Journey Here: An Explainer Series With Amrita Tripathi
Let’s try to make some of the conversations around Mental Health easier, less jargon-y. This can also be helpful to navigate a lot of the information on the site and out there! LET’S TALK: MENTAL HEALTH EXPLAINERS Let’s Talk about…
New Year, New Stories, New Us!
Let’s take a moment and recharge before we jump helter-skelter into the new year, already! We are doing just that — while I’ll be working on some new programming, content series, and more (more MORE) ways to get the community…
Self-Love: This is What Feeling our Feelings is Like
By Adwaita Das
Your Stories: What It’s Been Like to Live With OCD
By Anuj Malhotra Filmmaker-artist-curator Anuj Malhotra worked with architect-duo, Architecture for Dialogue (AfD), filmmakers Mahesh S and Gaurav Puri, and sound designer Ketan Dua to build the gaming universe The Serpent of a Thousand Coils, delving into the minds of those with anxiety and OCD. You can read an interview with him…