Having held space for clients in therapy for a few years now, I knew exactly what I was going through, but far deeper was the pain that I didn't want to express, experience or even understand. After a personal experience of pain, I realised how much I had internalised an incorrect idea of what it means to be a therapist. My experience of personal loss forced me to sit with my own emotions, identify it, reach out to my people and decide to talk about it in therapy for myself. And while I...

Hey Friend! You have survived school, college , maybe even a few terrible jobs, but then why does it still feel stressful and awkward to make a friend at the age of 26? What is friendship anyway? More than just someone who texts back! In psychology, friendship is one of the oldest and most studied phenomena, yet we may find it difficult to explain what it really means to us. Let's start with the basics. Friendship is a mutual relationship with those involved in it influencing each other’s...

A reflection on Vicarious trauma, news cycle and how we can care for ourselves while staying informed. May was heavy. If you found yourself scrolling through news with a knot in your stomach, refreshing the updates every hour on cases you could not stop thinking about even before your morning chai, you are not alone. What you may have experienced is called Vicarious trauma, it is the emotional and psychological impact of being witness to someone else’s traumatic experience. This can be...