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Ability to reduce interaction, walk way, cut off a toxic relationship is also relationship success.
Recently during a workshop when talking of how we can be successful at relationship this question came up. Are we successful only when we...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Aug 11, 20222 min read


Learning to stay with an emotion
If you don’t like particular weather (cold, hot, rainy, humid etc.,) you have two choices: move to a place where the weather is different...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 30, 20222 min read


Acceptance Vs Resignation
In counselling and psychology when the term acceptance is used many people think, acceptance means giving up the idea of change. They...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jul 8, 20222 min read


Calming the storm in the head
You want to stop the loop thinking. You want to end the tape that is running in your head. You want to switch off the film running inside...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jun 15, 20221 min read


Stopping the conversations in the head - Give a running commentary on life around you
Most times we are talking to someone in our minds. Either to someone or to ourselves. As long as the conversations are pleasant, they are...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jun 14, 20221 min read


Refraining from being solution-oriented ALL the time.
First scenario: The child comes back home from school and says, “You know what happened today? My friend Rahul stopped talking to me.”...

Sreedhar Mandyam
May 25, 20222 min read


Beta testing relationships
Society alters its shape every decade or so and it seems to be happening faster than before. The way we commute (Uber, Ola, Metro), the...

Sreedhar Mandyam
May 22, 20223 min read


Daily arguments over fans/lights switched on in empty rooms
Disproportionate responses to people’s behaviour around us cause a lot of unpleasantness. When we are on the other side don’t we feel for...

Sreedhar Mandyam
May 18, 20224 min read


Psychology Lessons from playing Scrabble, anyone?
Scrabble Babble. We play Scrabble like we play life. Some of us are hoarders. We hold on to our Qs and Zs hoping to use them at the right...

Sarita Talwai
Feb 20, 20222 min read


PARALYSIS FROM ANALYSIS
We live in two worlds We live in two worlds, don't we? One is the real world out there where we can physically touch things, people,...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Feb 11, 20222 min read


Emotions and Problems - the relationship
We are so good at solving other people's problems. Why is that our issues seem so difficult to solve? With our issues, our emotions are...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Feb 10, 20221 min read


Compassion Fatigue is real and it is here.
It is almost more than one and a half years of the pandemic. We heard it initially in January last year, we experienced the severity in...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 29, 20222 min read


Giving 'silent company' to people
"Give me some silent company" Recently someone came home and asked, “Are you busy?”. I replied, “Just answering some emails”. “Can I just...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 22, 20222 min read


As an adult child, how to handle your parents' arguments and fights?
In our culture, adult children keep in constant touch with their ageing parents, many living in the same house or at least on two...

Sreedhar Mandyam
Jan 11, 20223 min read


To survive, you must tell stories...
Carrying Tales. Life is really just stories strung together. If we stop and think for a moment, the most mundane of situations have the...

Sarita Talwai
Jan 7, 20222 min read


Finding Joy
What is the difference between Happiness and Joy? Is it just semantics? Understand the subtle difference in this piece

Sarita Talwai
Jan 4, 20222 min read
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