Taking a Child’s Consent Before Hugging Can Help Prevent Child Sexual Abuse
Our children are living among their biggest perpetrators, people whom they know and trust. We have to teach them their rights, and respect their feelings.
Tag: trauma
This Neuroscientist’s Work Holds the Key to Making You Happier and More Resilient
Award-winning neuroscientist Dr Vidita Vaidya is studying the circuitry of emotions to help future generations protect their brains and fight psychological disorders.
Why Childhood Adversity Turns Some People into Super-Achievers as Adults
In ‘Supernormal’, her groundbreaking new study of trauma and survival, Meg Jay tells the stories of people who overcome trauma in their childhoods to go on and live successful lives as adults.
Vasu Primlani on Why Men Rape, and How India Can Fix Its ‘Rape Epidemic’
We ask celebrated speaker, somatic therapist and rape rehabilitation counselor Vasu Primlani what leads men to rape and what we can do about it.
Dear Soul Sista, How Do I Resolve My Past with My Alcoholic Father?
A reader asks our in-house clinical psychologist Smriti Sawhney Joshi how to resolve her past with her
alcoholic and abusive father.
