Getting up every day with negative thoughts can burden an individual both physically and mentally. As humans, we are bound to have negative thoughts. Just like how a snowball grows in size when it is rolling down a hill, negative thoughts…
How Can Maintaining A Journal Help Tackle Mental Health Problems?
“Dear diary…” When we think of this phrase, the image that pops in our head is of a teen rambling about daily dramas, and school life. However, journaling has no age restriction. Anyone can maintain a journal. There are days…
The Stigma Related To Seeking Therapy.
The road to therapy may look easy. However, it is jam-packed with speed breakers making the journey a very slow and bumpy one. Our world is progressing, our economies are growing. Yet the stigma around mental health remains the same.…
How to overcome self-doubt?
Self-Doubt is a human tendency that influences individuals of all degrees of achievement. Doubt is the voice in the back of our head that makes us question our activities and ourselves. We doubt whether what we are doing is required,…
How to help someone who has PTSD?
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder is an anxiety disorder. It occurs when a traumatic episode is experienced, for example, a natural disaster, or an accident or some form of abuse. Although symptoms may differ, commonly they include having recurrent nightmares, disturbance in…
How does having gratitude help us in life?
“Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.” – Henry Ward Beecher Gratitude means the quality of being grateful and appreciating something or someone. Gratitude has become a modern trend with newspapers, magazines and the internet covering it.…
How To Help Your Child Become Self-Confident
Confidence is a feeling of trust; trust in oneself, their abilities and skills without doubt and discouragement. Being confident helps one perform better. Confidence also helps in developing intrapersonal relations. Low self-confidence may hinder and sabotage relations as well as…
How To Make The Best Out Of A Tough Situation?
“Instead of worrying about what you cannot control, shift your energy to what you can create.” ― Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart. When life gives you lemons, what do you do? You add the lemon zest in the cake…
Listen to understand, not to reply.
“The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand. We listen to reply.” –Stephen R. Covey Is hearing the same as listening? The answer is NO. Hearing is a physiological ability; it employs a primary sensory organ (ears)…
How to Effectively Communicate Your Feelings.
Humans are social beings; they love company. The act of effective communication is crucial to form harmonious, healthy and satisfactory relations. It establishes a sense of being heard, acknowledged and understood. However, this act often feels like a very daunting…