Learning to Navigate Emotional Hurdles: An Essential Life Skill.

By Soumya Bharathi

Soumya Bharthi Guest Blogger “Go within, every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out.” ―Katherine Dunham At some point in time, this light had vanished for me. I was a new mother battling post-partum depression, a wife and a daughter-in-law trying desperately to fit into those…

A Journey to Our Well Being

By Snehashree

Snehashree Guest blogger The wellbeing of beings is a mighty task, For keeping beings well is not easy. The delicate mind needs stories, but pauses, too. Too many stories can make you neurotic. Pauses, too many, can make you ignorant. The world has lost the balance and so, indeed, the wellness of beings. Souls loiter…

Caregivers, you need care too

By Vandana Sehgal

There was something about that day…. She was more than ever scared of losing herself when she came for a therapy session. She wasn’t sure if she would be able to cope with the growing needs of her son. Pandemic had escalated her loneliness and fear. And it had brought a lot more focus towards…

Women, Stress and Panic Attacks

By Vandana Sehgal

Anya was answering her last mail before leaving her office to pick up her son from school daycare. Then suddenly, she felt her body freezing and her hands and legs going numb. That experience reminded her about the breathlessness, heavily pumping chest and cold hands that numbed her two weeks back. The inability to breathe…

Anxiety – That Old Friend

By Vandana Sehgal

Sandra, 12-year-old bright girl, ran out of her room, “Mom, why this internet never works properly and now my password isn’t working. My teacher is calling for me in class and, I can’t join,” all of this in one breath. I, a technically weak person, before could understand what was happening, got bombarded with another…

Covid-19 – Since you can’t control it, accept it.

By Vandana Sehgal

It has now been two weeks that my family and I are voluntarily following self-isolation. I live in Stockholm, Sweden where the government hasn’t implemented lockdown because they trust that people will maintain social distance and will go for isolation, if required. There are many other families like us who are actively following isolation to…