The Secret Ingredient Mental Health

Let me begin by wishing you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year!  Did you do a double check at the blog date? Well, you're right, we are way past New Year's and this Blog was supposed to go live, like you can guess, before Christmas!  Hmmph... Did I procrastinate writing a blog about procrastination.. maybe, maybe not. I remember going to the gym and seeing this big white board there, where they asked people to write their reasons for skipping the gym, and the responses were like any other...

Grief, in theory, is meant to be personal. In practice, it rarely is. Loss arrives quietly and violently at the same time. It dismantles the familiar rhythm of life and leaves behind a rawness that words cannot hold. And yet, almost immediately, grief becomes something that is watched, assessed, commented on, and shaped by others. There seems to be an unspoken script for how grief should look, sound, and move through the body. Particularly in the context I grew up in, grief does not just...

Hello hi hey there! I’m popping into your feed just to gently (and politely) remind you to put your screen away for a little while and breathe! And once you’re done, come back here because I want to tell you why  I asked you to do that haha! Do you remember the last time you were in a situation and didn’t  immediately think about the future? Or the last time you went on a vacation without worrying about all the work waiting for you once you returned? Or when you ate something delicious (that...