We use a lot of terms very lightly these days— depression, traumatized, bipolar. Being sad, upset or deeply hurt by something does not hold the same meaning as being depressed. Similarly, having a sudden change in one’s mood does not make them bipolar. We have come to misinterpret the definitions of a lot of psychological terms over time and, therefore, misuse them. This has, inadvertently, … Continue reading Busting Mental Health Myths | Kritika
*Trigger Warning* As simple and easy modernisation is making our lives, it also comes at the cost of increased physical, mental and emotional problems. High stress, low patience, failing relationships, the increased workload in schools and offices— our home and working environment are almost suffocating us. There are times when the mental stress and emotional pain that we are suffering through starts becoming unbearable or … Continue reading Self Harm Awareness | Kritika
There comes a point in our lives where we feel nothing is going our way and the “surprise” in the quote, “Life has a way of surprising us”, is DEFINITELY not the kind of surprise we wanted. And things seem to go from bad to worse to worst to “this cannot be happening with me right now”. And what might seem like a short duration … Continue reading Living in a World of Hope | Kritika
We are living in a time where we have the entire world at our fingertips, anything can be done with just a snap of our fingers. In a world where technology is so advanced and everything so fast-paced that you get food in a drive-through within 10 minutes. Talking to someone in a time-zone 7 hours behind happens in a blink. Learning anything and everything … Continue reading Patience Art Requires | Kritika
2021 has almost come to end, today is the last day of this long yet so short year. I was going through my journal a few days ago; I had made one this year. Drew and coloured, made weekly and monthly spreads, wrote my goals for the year at the beginning of the book, made daily to-do lists, maintained a Habit Tracker and at the … Continue reading Goals | Kritika
A few months ago, one of my friends texted me and told me that she is Bisexual and I am the first person to know this because even though she has known this for quite a while, she isn’t ready to let the world know. A month or two later, she told me that she told one of her cousins and they were very understanding … Continue reading Beside Heterosexual | Kritika
Plans, something we all make before we put things into action. Be it a rough outline of how you’ll spend your weekend or a detailed hour by hour breakdown of that perfect dream vacation. There is hardly anything we do without making a plan. A daily list, weekly to-do, monthly goals, yearly goals, 5-year goals. We all strategically plan and organize our to-do or to-achieve … Continue reading Plans don’t Always Work | Kritika
Movement Disorders. They are defined as repetitive, involuntary PURPOSELESS movements. Now, reading this you must be wondering why am I turning a post on a well-being blog into that of a medical blog? I want to say this – Just like that purposeless movement, a movement without any motive, without any reason, we forget why chose to do something in the first place anyway. What … Continue reading Mindful Movement | Kritika
“It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it” This quote by Leon Brown truly intrigued me. I, as a human being, have the ability to perceive everything that is happening around me, in my surroundings. I hold the ability to absorb information from my environment, process it and respond to it. That’s … Continue reading It all Starts in our Head | Kritika
We’ve grown up listening to “Hardwork is the key to success”, “Hard work can lead you places”, “Hard work never fails” and so on. We’ve grown up listening to how important hard work is and how we can achieve the world if we work hard towards our goals. All this is true. Hard work is the keystone to achieve anything, to become successful. But more … Continue reading Effort vs Hard Work | Kritika
If 2020 was the “Year-that-must-not-be-named”, I don’t know what we are going to call 2021. It has been not even 6 months but this year feels like it has been dragging on forever; June is about to end but I still feel shivers going down my spine as if I am walking wearing only a thin t-shirt on a freezing January morning. I remember sitting … Continue reading Don’t Lose Hope | Kritika
“To join or fasten together.” I came across this simple definition when I searched for the word “Connecting”. We come across thousands of people in our lives from the time of our birth to our death. From our parents, siblings, family, friends, teachers, colleagues to strangers on the public transport, a library or a friend of a friend. But out of these thousands of people … Continue reading Connection | Kritika
“Never stop believing because miracles happen everyday” All of us believe in something. Something that we think about strongly, something we have complete faith in. We all believe in something or the other in the world around us. Something that makes us stronger, something that gives us strength and motivation, something that makes us want to strive for everything in life. A belief that doesn’t … Continue reading Believing | Kritika
There have been numerous write-ups and articles on the topic of gratitude and how important and impactful it is in one’s life. But today, I would like to present you with my thoughts about the topic. When I think about it, gratitude is being thankful. Thankful not only for the big things and major incidences in life but also for the small things and tiny … Continue reading Gratitude | Kritika
A new year, a new beginning, a chance to move on from all that’s happened and a chance to start fresh. With this new hope surging in our hearts, we set different goals and targets for ourselves that we plan to achieve in the forthcoming year. Not only for this particular year, we set goals that we aim at achieving in the next few days, … Continue reading Journey and Destination | Kritika
2020, the “Year-that-must-not-be-named”. I never thought a four-digit number could possess this much weight. It takes a lot of effort to even talk about it. The pain, the hardships, the fear, the confusion. Most of us want to forget everything that happened this year, wake up one morning and believe this was nothing but a horrible nightmare. I asked a lot of people, if they … Continue reading Roller-coaster called 2020 | Kritika
They say you don’t really comprehend what a word means until you’ve felt it, experienced it yourself. And this year has been like a real-life dictionary for me. I have seen a lot of words in a completely new light, felt the phrases touching my soul for the first time, understood the true meaning of a feeling or an emotion. Experiencing the negatives have made … Continue reading The Period of Happiness | Kritika
Everyday teaches us something new and this year has especially taught us a lot of things. For me, this year has been full of epiphanies and realisations. I have realised things which were always in front of me but I failed to notice, and things which I came to realise because I had the time to revel into my thoughts. One of the things that … Continue reading Importance of Time | Kritika
Almost all of us must have worked at least once with a string of thread in lives. A long strand in which knots form as soon as it is unrolled and cut from the spool. It gets entangled in itself at least once when you are working with it. Have you ever tried to untangle it? To untie the knots? While working on it, to … Continue reading Untangle the Knots | Kritika
