Essays
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When I was writing the post on knowing your triggers, it occurred to me that though I had a checklist for how to overcome bad days or how to know something is triggering me or that I need to make some shift in my daily routine to sleep better, etc. I didn’t have a checklist…
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I don’t know Raj Kundra’s story. Frankly, I’m not concerned about the veracity of the story. What concerns me are the range of reactions that the news received in my household and the kind of content that has been created around it.
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My sister and I were having a conversation on what the first piece of content that either of us consumed around the LGBT+ community was.
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Triggers are words, situations, scenes, topics, circumstances, basically anything outside that create a response inside you. The response can be smallish and thus manageable or largish and thus may require some form of tools or professional help to deal with. An example of a tool would be Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) to help with certain…
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I don’t like the term work life balance. It pits work against life: as if you don’t need work to have a life. Or you don’t spend the maximum number of mind space on work, even when you’re supposedly living. It makes you want to strive for an ideal you’re not even sure is possible…
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We always think of jealousy, anger, fear, guilt as negative emotions. In fact there are tables and posts dedicated to what are negative emotions and how you can control them. And yet these emotions are essential to our well-being. An e-course that I’m taking right now called ‘the science of happiness’ also called them negative…
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My title is a bad joke because lately I have been having more bad days than good days. The news cycle is relentless and every time I feel I can take a breath today; some tweet or story will destroy whatever peace (or piece) I have gathered.
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