𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐚𝐫𝐞; 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐜𝐚𝐧𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐲 𝐚𝐫𝐞.
"Why can’t my husband be more organized? Why can’t he keep things in place? Why can’t he keep his desk and cupboard organized? Won’t it...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 242 min read
𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐟𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 '𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝'
“I want my son to take up a course/profession that other are not. I want him to be an independent thinker not be influenced by what...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 232 min read
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐬
“How many times should I ask you to finish dinner. Then I can clear the table” 𝐕𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐮𝐬 “If you have dinner now, I can clear the...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Aug 3, 20232 min read
Finding Vs Creating time, space, relationship, meaning etc
“I want to spend time with my family, but I am not able to find time” “I love music. I want to learn an instrument, just can’t find time...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Aug 2, 20232 min read
Don't allow people to put you down because you don't know the headlines of the day.
“Do you know there may be a war between Russia and Ukraine?” asked the husband “No, I don’t know”, replied the wife “How can you not...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Aug 1, 20232 min read
Teaching loved ones to carry their umbrellas
“I have to enter the kitchen to do something and my wife rushes in asking what I want, what she can do etc. Can’t I do something for...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 31, 20231 min read
Small keys can open big doors.
What does positive expectancy talk look like? When we have a positive expectancy (the future will be better) our talk is different. The...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 30, 20232 min read
Where is your life in imbalance?
Often time it is good to pause in our life and check where our life is imbalanced. Have we gone off to one extreme? Some areas in our...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 29, 20231 min read
We don’t have to scratch every itch
Take ten minutes to do this exercise. Lie down in a comfortable position on your bed. You will not be moving for ten minutes or so, hence...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 28, 20231 min read
What went well in your life last week?
When clients come into counselling for a repeat session, I ask them this question and the first reaction is to be taken back. They...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 27, 20232 min read
The corrosive practice of constantly criticising family members
“My dad has never seen anything good in me. He constantly keeps saying I am just eating his food and putting on weight. It makes me feel...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 26, 20232 min read
Do children need to be ‘productive’ all the time?
“Whenever I watch Japanese Anime which I love, my mom says, I am wasting my time. She says, I should watch National Geographic and I...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 25, 20232 min read
Ability to reduce interactions, walk way, cut off a toxic relationship is also being successful at r
Ability to reduce interactions, walk way, cut off a toxic relationship is also being successful at relationships Recently during a...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 24, 20231 min read
We can miss something/someone but not want it back.
When people talk of missing something like a possession, an experience or a person in their lives we often think they would like to have...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 23, 20232 min read
It is okay to acknowledge some relationships have an expiry date
Relationships between adults are almost always voluntary. It means that the relationships can flourish only when both the people want it,...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 22, 20232 min read
What are your Four-Five stories that keep you awake at night?
Most of us cannot go to sleep because we cannot stop thinking. The body is tired but the brain is active. Being primarily visual...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 21, 20232 min read
Why be embarrassed by the emotions of our loved ones?
It was the gathering of relatives and halfway through it, the father got into an argument with a relative the argument became heated for...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 19, 20231 min read
Is ‘Closure’ another over-used word?
I feel he has not yet had a closure for his dad’s death” “She has not had a closure for her pain from the divorce” “He is yet to get a...
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Jul 18, 20232 min read
Our strength can also be our weakness
We can look at our strengths as our personality strengths (I am…), our external resources like our relationships, our possessions, our...
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Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 17, 20231 min read
Do you want to just speak or do you want to be heard?
The questions confused many people. When we speak, are others not hearing us? That is the doubt running in their minds. There is a lot of...
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