An Affirmation We May All Need: I Show Myself Kindness
An Affirmation we may all need: I Show Myself Kindness.
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Tag: Grief
Grief is not Linear: Cumulative Grief Even More Complex
By Sartaj Singh I stepped out of my house for the first time in 36 days to buy some new notebooks. I got one with a pink hard top, a blue hard top and 2 packs of ball pens with a click mechanism. It was indeed an essential item for me to step out during […]
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Learning to Grieve: Through the Tunnel, with Barthes’ Mourning Diary
By Arpita Das Joan Didion writes that grieving is an experience, but mourning is work, and she could not have said it better. Grieving is certainly something one goes through, one experiences, one gives in to, one has to submit to when one experiences loss — be it the loss of a loved one to […]
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Covid-19 and You: Tunes for Troubled Times
By Ilina Acharya The Covid-19 world has changed the topography of how we lead our lives. It has also triggered anxiety and affected our mental health. Uncertainty and the resulting stress can take over the mindscape. My oxygen mask for stress is music. It automatically soothes and calms me. Songs take you back to who […]
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Learning to Grieve with Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking
By Arpita Das Grief lives in the body, someone said. After my father’s death I began to understand what that insightful set of words meant. At inopportune moments, especially in a closed room with several people, I would feel my chest contracting till I felt I had to fall back on the Lamaze breathing I […]
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Covid-19 and You: Grief, Mental Health and Julian Barnes’ Nothing to Be Frightened Of
By Arpita Das We are being told by mental health practitioners and armchair experts time and again as the pandemic rages that what we are feeling right now, this heaviness, the lassitude, the pain in our gut, is grief. As if grief were as novel an experience as the novel coronavirus. So novel, we would […]
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Lost Voices: Losing a Pregnancy
By Ratna Golaknath This article is a part of a series called “lost voices”, where Ratna Golaknath writes about issues that are often unspoken about and that hardly ever reach the therapy rooms. Many of my friends, acquaintances and clients have shared the experience of losing a pregnancy. This could be for medical reasons, an elective decision, […]
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