When the pain makes me hurt myself
TW : I had a very difficult childhood. My mother was always busy with office work. She rarely used to be at home. While my father stayed at home, as …
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I cried with my face in the muck
It was a two-story home on the hill, separated from the town, with youngsters lounging all over the place, smoking up, lying on the floors of the bathrooms, making out …
Why did you eat today if you never ate supper without me?
‘Phew’ today was a hectic day at work, I had to stay back to celebrate a colleague’s marriage and it just reminded me of how excited I was for my …
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Being or becoming; thy expectations drown me in abysses
Home. What do you ponder when you think of home? Do you consider it as a place of comfort? Of safety? Do you connect it with a person? Someone who …
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Not to let the tainted tears drop and wane
My father used to read me a story before bed every night. My day’s most eagerly anticipated moment was then. Not just the stories, but also his time and affection, …
A Better Lifestyle : Change Begins from Within
Every day, you go through a cycle of habits and behaviors that influence your brains in such a way that you learn new things from those encounters. Mostly you force …
I am not attuning with my therapist, is there something wrong?
When I was younger, everyone in my family took golf lessons. My father would worry about which golf professional he should study with, trying to figure out if he was …
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Holding Space for Difficult Emotions : One Day At A Time
I think the most difficult part of therapy was accepting that mytherapist was on my team. The questions she asked me were not totarget me or to be mean, I …
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Meltdown, unknotting is safe
I was going to tell them precisely how I felt, but a knot in my throat, tears in my eyes, and a sinking hollow in my stomach stopped me. I …
Smilingly, she mentioned, this too will pass away
I have been ‘sad’ for as long as I can remember. I’m sure there was a time when I wasn’t though. People tell me about how I used to be …
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