Perfectionism is often seen as a double-edged sword. On one hand, it pushes individuals to strive for excellence, setting high standards and working relentlessly to achieve their goals. On the other hand, it can lead to stress, burnout, and an inability to appreciate progress. But is being a …
Toxic Positivity
Toxic positivity is the act of avoiding, suppressing or completely rejecting any negative feelings or emotions. Toxic positivity also encapsulates denying unhappy or negative feelings in others. It is quite difficult to set aside emotions of a certain category for any time. But then there are so …
How to Fill the Vacuum Within?
There are so many times when we feel a little alone or lonely, despite being between people. We feel a constant sense of emptiness and purposelessness and immediately we rush to seek validation from all our surroundings. This is nothing but a sign that we feel a deep vacuum within ourselves. The …
Importance of Goal Setting
Goal setting is a powerful tool for achieving personal and professional success. It provides direction, focus, and motivation, serving as a roadmap to turn aspirations into tangible results. Whether you're striving to improve your career, health, relationships, or personal growth, setting clear, …
Effective Mentorship
Effective mentorship occurs when mentors (individuals who mentor) and mentees (individuals who are mentored) develop a mutual foundation of trust, share strengths and limitations and authentically identify to engage with one another. They say that a mentor is someone who allows you to see the …
What is Authenticity?
What is authenticity? The dictionary meaning of being authentic or authenticity is the quality of being genuine or real. In a casual, light-hearted conversation, if any Indian aunty is asked about her silk saree or the gorgeous pair of diamond earrings, the immediate response will be “it is 100% …
Surrender
“Surrender is knowing that the trees cannot always be green. It is seeing the beauty in the colours of fall.” Life is funny. The more we think we have figured it out, the more mysterious it becomes. We find so many doors closing, but parallelly, life opens windows too, with the tremendous view of …
The Importance of Therapy
Society today, collectively focuses on physical health and attractiveness. Physical health and wellness have paramount significance and proof lies in the sheer number of super speciality doctors- highly qualified to make everything okay. Technicians and beauty salons can work on the minutest scar on …
The Art of Detachment
The world we live in today is a mad race to gather more. True to the name of our ancestors’ “gatherers”, we still continue that way of life. But instead of foraging for survival, we gather to enter a vicious cycle of owning more and losing ourselves. The only difference is that the rush to own …
Signs of Self-Love
Love. Such a beautiful word and even more beautiful feeling. It is an indescribable warmth when an expecting mother feels the little feet kicking in her belly. It encompasses the joy when siblings wait for each other to reach home from school. Love is the look in the eyes of a pet, waiting for their …
Cause and Effect
Every event in our life is an episode of a root cause and an effect. Most causes or efforts are tangible and so the effects are also visible. If a person is to exercise daily with commitment and discipline, their physical body will start showing positive results. If a child studies hard for an …
Overthinking can Lead to Procrastination
Let us delve into a typical day for Iris, who is a working professional for a multinational. She has at least 6 things on her to-do list. She stares at them, divides them into priorities and works on only 3. She believes she can do the pending work better with more time on hand- maybe …
The Role of Blame in a Relationship
Blaming our partner or another person in any relationship is a natural human tendency. This tendency springs from the varied behaviours we have been exposed to as a child. An angry parent blaming “this glass of water fell because you were not careful” sets a narrative of our dialogues in all adult …
Relationships
“People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel”- Maya Angelou Many say Relationships can get complicated, I personally don’t disagree with that statement but I also feel Relationships are our Teachers. Every human being learns …
Uncertainty – The New Reality
We are all surrounded by extreme uncertainty with everything that is going on around us i.e. the pandemic, people losing jobs, people moving, financial stress, health stress, loosing loved ones, etc. It is hard to fathom that life could come to this, as there is such a lack of certainty in anything. …
Keeping Score
In any game where there are two teams involved, there is a need of keeping scores as the idea is to always have more points than your opponent. Let me ask you, do you think this works in relationships? The answer is a BIG NO. Relationships are not like measuring cups where every action is …
What is the pace of your life?
One day I was sitting when it suddenly stuck me, when people say I have decided to slow down in life, what does this really mean? After some thinking it came to me, that the deeper understanding of this really means to be PRESENT. When we are running to compete with others or life (when …
The Gut Brain Connection
This is a very important topic to understand as it links food to mental health. But first let’s understand the gut brain connection. So our gut is a group of organs that includes the mouth, esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, gallbladder, small intestine, colon, and rectum. There are millions of …
Expectation vs Connection
In the last decade or so, I have felt the increasing burden of expectations that people have from SELF and OTHERS. Whether it is to do with work, relationships, self, there are huge expectation standards. And if not achieved, only leads to disappointment. I don’t think having expectations is a …
Betrayal
We all have gone through the feeling of betrayal either by betraying someone or when someone betrays us. Agree? Unfortunately this is the cycle of life where some of us have to go through this in order to grow, go beyond and get a deeper understanding. It also makes one a more compassionate …
