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Six Months of Tuesdays
What therapy looks like from beginning to end — one composite story: the stiff first call, the long unheroic middle, and change that arrives sideways.
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Notes on minds and everyday life
Stories from practice, reflections on mental health, and short studies of the ideas psychology lives by — written to make the inner world a little easier to talk about.
Blog
The 2 a.m. Overthinking Loop — and How to Step Out of It
Problems genuinely look bigger at 2 a.m. — not because they grew, but because the part of you that keeps perspective has gone to sleep first. Why the mind spins at night, and the exits that help.
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Blog
Your First Therapy Session: What Actually Happens
Feeling nervous before your first session is the most common thing in the room. A gentle walk-through of what really happens — and what you will never be asked to do.
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Story
The Waiting Room Outside Oncology
What I learned about cancer in the corridors, not the wards: distress as a vital sign, the secret everyone knows, and why the caregiver is the second patient.
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Blog
The Myth of Moving On
The five stages were never a map of grief. What loss actually asks of us, why the crying and the laughing both belong — and the one form of grief that truly needs help.
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The Body Remembers What the Family Forgets
"But nothing really happened to me" — the sentence I hear most from adults carrying complex trauma. On emotional neglect, self-doubt, and what healing looks like without a family showdown.
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Study
Doomscrolling Is a Symptom, Not a Habit
Nobody doomscrolls for fun. On what the endless scroll is doing for you, the honest science of "phone addiction" — and what actually helps beyond deleting Instagram for a week.
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It's Never Just the Two of You
Indian marriages come with families attached. On triangles, in-laws, perpetual fights, and building a small sturdy "we" inside the larger "us".
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