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Psychology

Practical, science-backed reflections on reading people, communicating with presence, and healing from within.

Psychology

When You Become Your Parent's Parent Too Soon

Stepping into a caregiving role for a struggling parent is natural in adulthood, but doing it as a child or teenager quietly steals the years you needed to grow up yourself.

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Stop Tiptoeing Around the One Angry Person in Your Family

In many families, a single person who throws tantrums quietly controls everyone else. Here's why the rest of you keep shrinking — and how to stop.

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Anima and Animus: Why You Need Both Energies to Feel Whole

Most of us lean heavily into either our masculine or feminine traits — and that imbalance shapes how easily we get manipulated or held back. Here's how to map your own energies and develop the side you've neglected.

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Are You Loyal to Yourself? The Question No One Asks

We demand loyalty from everyone around us, yet rarely ask whether we keep our word to ourselves. Here is what self-loyalty actually looks like — and why it changes more than loyalty to anyone else.

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Four Behavioural Tricks to Stop Mindless Overeating

Snacking in front of a screen has no natural stop signal — which is exactly why we overeat. Four small behavioural shifts can hand that control back to you.

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Why Escaping a Situation Quietly Traps You in It Again

Running from a toxic relationship, job or home feels like freedom, but escape and solution are not the same thing — and the body knows the difference long before the mind admits it.

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Toxic Love: Breaking the Break-Up, Patch-Up Cycle

If you fight like crazy and keep coming back to each other, it may not be deep love at work — it may be a habit your nervous system has mistaken for closeness.

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Why Ranveer Singh Always Needs the Camera On Him

Some people light up the moment a camera finds them and dim when it looks away. Using Ranveer Singh as a familiar example, I unpack the four deeper reasons behind constant attention-seeking.

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What Baghban Really Says About Parenting and Children

That guilt-trip line from Baghban — "all children abandon their parents" — falls apart the moment you look at the one son who turned out kind. The difference wasn't love. It was the environment.

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Spotting Toxic Traits Early: Red Flags Your Body Reads First

Abuse rarely arrives loud and obvious — it builds through irritability, jealousy and manipulation dressed up as love. Here are the early cues that should make you pause.

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What Do We Really Know About North East India? On Manipur

The Manipur video that went viral forced a hard question on me: how much do we actually know about our own country? Many of us can't even name the states of the North East, let alone their capitals.

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Honey Trap: How It Works and the Cues to Watch For

A honey trap follows a predictable script — sudden interest, heavy flattery, a fast-moving relationship, then a request for money or information. Here's how to spot the pattern before you're inside it.

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Why People Overshare: 5 Reasons Hiding Behind the Words

Oversharing isn't a character flaw — it's usually an unmet need showing itself out loud. Here are the five reasons people reveal too much, and what to do when someone in your family does it.

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Why Some People Complain Forever But Never Change

If you know someone who keeps circling the same problem without ever solving it, there are usually four psychological reasons at work — and recognising them changes how you respond.

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Do You Use Your Emotion Regulator, or Just an On-Off Switch?

Most of us treat our emotions like a light switch — fully on or fully off. The skill almost nobody practises is using the dial in between.

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The Generation of Repair vs the Generation of Replacement

Our parents fixed what broke. We tend to replace it. The way you treat a leaking tap may quietly mirror how you treat a strained relationship.

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How nicknames quietly kill a child's confidence

The names we hand out as harmless jokes — based on someone's body, skin or size — can switch off a person's confidence in a single afternoon. Here's how that happens, and why it stays with us.

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Have you grown up, or has only your age increased?

Cursing, storming off, name-calling, lying to win — these aren't quirks, they're emotional habits we never outgrew. Here are six signs you still have growing up to do, and the one I'm guilty of myself.

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