Caring Matters
Recently, Prateik Babar, son the late Indian actress Smita Patil spoke of his recovery from addiction, “I was a fool who permitted love to drive me to self-destruction, all the while hoping I could find [Read More]
Healing our personal wounds takes time, patience and courage. When I was given the diagnosis of scoliosis at age 17 that I would be twisted and deformed. I felt my life had ended. My only [Read More]
I was 17 years when I got the official diagnosis that I had scoliosis. Official because my father had noticed something was amiss with my back 2 years earlier but thought I was doing it [Read More]
Fear is one of our primal instincts. The fear response arises from the perception of danger from which we either confront(fight), escape(flight) or becomes paralyzed (freeze) – the fight-flight-freeze response gets activated. Though fear is [Read More]
In his book The Upward Spiral, neuroscientist Alex Korb demystifies the neurological processes in the brain that causes depression and offers effective ways to get better―one little step at a time. One of the most [Read More]
Change is difficult. We can’t just think ourselves out of feelings of low self-esteem, depression or lack of courage. The subconscious programming of our childhood holds us back. No matter how much we try to [Read More]
A recent study reveals that Meditation DOESN’T make you a calmer person: Buddhist practice leaves people just as aggressive and prejudiced. I think it is high time we stop slavishly following the western trend to pick [Read More]
I hate exercising. The thought of setting aside 30 minutes of my time for working out is boring. Through trial and error, I have stumbled upon one exercise that is super easy, quick, and works [Read More]
Prof Digby Tantam, Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy, University of Sheffield claims that humans are more connected to each other than earlier understood. According to him, there is a Wi-Fi Connection between us humans. Not exactly [Read More]