“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain But how does a woman, living in this youth-obsessed world, avoid or escape the judgement sent her way each time she speaks to someone, opens a magazine, walks into a store or just goes online? How does […]
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Nandita Kochar As a counselling psychologist-in-training, I work each day towards reducing the stigma around seeking help for one’s mental health. In the process, I come across many misconceptions that people have about therapy. So here is a list I wrote of some things I feel no one ever tells you about therapy. I hope […]
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Not being able to get enough sleep is extremely frightening. We panic over why we cannot sleep, we panic over how we will meet the demands of the next day and then we panic over how little time is left for us to catch some sleep. Our generation has probably only one solution for insomnia […]
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Addiction represents one of the most serious problems in most countries across the globe. Human addiction isn’t only limited to the usage of substances but can span across to include power, human beings, sexual acts among other things. When it comes to this problem, craving is the hardest to get rid of. Many addicts understand […]
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In reality, we all are addicts. It may not be cocaine or heroin or marijuana that we find ourselves drawn to but it might be something else.
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Nandita Kochar Marcel Proust was an early 20th-century French writer behind what is officially the longest novel in the world: À la recherche du temps perdu (In Search of Lost Time) – which has 12,67,069 words in it. The text was published in French in 7 volumes, spanning over 14 years. And was immediately hailed […]
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Process The Twin Heart Meditation is based on the belief that an individual’s heart consists of two sections: the heart chakra or the emotional heart and the crown chakra or the spiritual heart. The meditation focuses on striking or enhancing the connection between these two sections. It slowly encourages the opening of the gateway between […]
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In the troubled times that we live, anyone who is seen sitting alone at a coffee shop or at a dinner table, enjoying some food or coffee is viewed as pitiable and sad. Those around him or her make an immediate attempt to ask them to join them. It’s not acceptable to be okay and […]
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Developed by Carl Rogers in the United States roughly between 1940 and 1990, person-centered counselling rests on the belief that humans at their deepest level are essentially positive, growth-oriented (self-actualizing tendency) and trustworthy. Rogers believed the human personality to be consisting of a few hypothesized psychic structures – organismic experience i.e. the total experience of […]
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Some people view life as a battleground; if they don’t win, they leave the field with an extremely disheartened face and maintain this attitude until they win again. Others see life as an adventure where each day brings new opportunities to help the self grow. We all have our varying understanding of life. And most […]