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Women's Health

Understanding Menstrual Cycles And Conditions Affecting Them

On average, 10 in 100 women have heavy menstrual bleeding, which is more than 80ml of blood in the entire menstrual cycle. 80ml equals 1/3rd of a cup or more than 5 tablespoons. Flooding = Leaking through despite using a tampon or pad Clots = Clumps of blood and lining tissue The average menstrual cycle

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Trauma

Looking at Behaviours Through a Trauma-Informed Lens

Emotions and experiences that a child cannot manage in a safe manner tend to get trapped within the child’s body and mind. This trapped experience is either ‘avoided, deflected, projected or suppressed.’ Unfortunately, these ‘fright, flight, freeze, fawn’ responses do cause compensatory behaviours as well. Here is one such example. If a child has witnessed

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Emotional Wellbeing

Let’s Start Living With Hope And Purpose

Today’s world and lifestyle is pushing us all into a spiral where the more we do, the more we feel left behind. It seems like a race with the finishing line moving farther away no matter how fast we go. Perhaps that’s where we are doing things wrong. We keep trying to do more and

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Emotional Wellbeing

What Does ‘Holding space’ Mean, In Terms Of Psychology/Therapy?

As human beings we all experience feelings and emotions and often people start thinking that doing so makes us become a problem. Unfortunately, it’s not feeling the emotions that could be viewed as problematic but how we respond/react to emotions. For example, Mr X has lost his job. He’s the sole earner in his family

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Parenting

Why Are We Trying To Raise Obedient And ‘Good’ Children?

Children are known to be self-centred and honest because that is how they learn about the world they will grow up in. They are naturally inclined towards protecting their own safety, needs and desires and often end up ‘triggering’ the adults around them by stirring their emotions around their own unmet needs as individuals. When

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Communication

Doing The Right Thing Is Hard, But Why?

We all have experienced this phenomenon even as children. If a 4-year-old trips and falls, the other children would probably giggle, ignore them or tell them off for being clumsy. The handful who don’t react in these ways might feel they are the odd ones out; unpopular, different (read weird) and hence wrong! Clearly if

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