Different Shreya ran down the road, angrily, dashing away the tears that distorted her vision. “How dare they?” she thought, “How dare they make fun of me like that. Just because I am not like them? I may be different, but I am still a wonderful person!” Then she sighed because she knew it didn’t…
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Mount Grumble and Me
Mount Grumble and Me My life sucked. It truly did. Especially in the lockdown. The list of chores never ended. I had no time to do the things I wanted to. I dreaded getting up every morning to a sink full of dishes and a million more chores, big and small. That was when I…
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Gateway To Mental Well Being
Gateway To Mental Well Being July 2020 will be memorable to me because I spent an hour every Saturday and Sunday doing a course called Gateway to Mental Wellbeing. This was a course conducted by Gauri Hirwe Nilakantan. Who is Gauri? Gauri has a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology. She works at building mental wellbeing…
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Coping
The lockdown has, without a doubt, been an extremely tough period and even the most level headed of us has lost our shit at some point. But for those of us who struggle with maintaining our calm even when we’re not in a full blown pandemic, it has been an especially stressful situation. I’m one…
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