Can chronic pain change your personality? I would know, I have been there
Gurugram artist and poet Nidhi Agrawal learnt through first-hand trauma how chronic pain can change one’s personality, and how to find courage in one’s tears.
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How Speaking Up Set Me Free from the Prison of My Past
Author and life coach Mala Mansukhani shares how expressing herself clearly and openly with her loved ones helped her deal with trauma and social ostracism.
This Technique Employs the Body’s Own Healing Mechanism to Release Stress and Trauma
UK-based yoga teacher and author Caroline Purvey helps people heal from stress and trauma using the body’s own powerful healing mechanism.
How Violence at Home Traumatizes Children and Sprouts a Dysfunctional Society
Growing up in a violent home is a traumatic experience that affects every aspect of a child’s life and development, writes psychologist Dr Prerna Kohli.
“Gender Equality Is Being Fought for, by Tooth and Nail” – Anoushka Shankar
Music icon Anoushka Shankar looks back at her incredible journey, her relationship with her parents, and how her diverse experiences shaped her as a person.
From an Abused Child to a Healer: The Remarkable Journey of Michelle Evans
Canada-based life coach Michelle Evans turned the trauma of her childhood into fuel for self-transformation and healing others.
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.
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.
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