We hear people telling us all the time to ‘follow your passion’. We think of passion as some work that you are dying to to do, something...

Many non-pet lovers find it very very hard to understand the family of pet-lovers. This is a kind of a primer for them. Pets have names...

There are many emotional and psychological tools that parents use to goad their children to do things that the parents want. All with...

I am sure every counsellor has faced this dilemma. How do we decide who we can and whom we cannot counsel? The first thing the counsellor...

If the lift of the apartment is not working and you have to climb five flights of stairs to reach home, you will feel tired as you enter...

Countless arguments and misunderstanding between people arise because of this one fact. We make assumptions about people - what they must...

This is a realization that we meet often in life but just push it away. Some people are not designed to go out to an office, work from 9...

When we hear of someone we know or a celebrity commit suicide, how many times have we heard that kind of statement from people around?...

In our lives, we would really love to solve all our problems. Who does not like that? The idea of a life without any problems seems...

Recently someone I know lost her husband after nearly 40 years of a good marriage. She went about briskly arranging for the last rites of...

There are too many little people inside me who are struggling to get out. It is not just me, but these little people are inside all of...

Words flow endlessly in our head and at times it can become disturbing. Our conversations in the mind is either with ourselves or with...

“I have helped my sister so many times in my life but she is never there for me when I want it” “This has happened often?” I asked “Yes,...

At the conclusion of the course one of the participants said something very significant, “I had the belief that learning Life Skills was...

Recently, when I put the phone down after congratulating someone on the other side of the phone, the person who was in my presence asked,...

While the philosophical idea of truth can be debated endlessly without coming to any conclusions, in our real life we need to distinguish...

It was the gathering of relatives and halfway through it, the father got into an argument with a relative the argument became heated for...

Most of us cannot go to sleep because we cannot stop thinking. The body is tired but the brain is active. Being primarily visual...

Some people are shocked when they hear children in some households call elders by their first names. In most homes, the parents are often...

Most psychology books are written by Western authors and these authors only look at the Western culture and assume the rest of the world...