Thoughts

FOMO No Mo’: Why we feel the Fear of Missing Out and What to do about it.

Every choice to do something, is a choice not to do other things. That would be fine by itself, but now the average person spends about 2 hours a day on social media looking at the heavily curated life of friends, family, and celebrities/ pseudo-celebrities. The “perfect” social or private life paraded right in front

How to process heavy emotions?

A lot of people come to us with similar frustrations of – “I don’t know what to do when I feel complicated emotions! Or “I feel so lost and confused when I feel these emotions that I don’t even know where to start.” They’re asking a question that no one in our life explicitly prepares

Is Ghosting inherently bad?

Ghosting is the modern-day equivalent of shutting the door to your room with the intent of passively refusing to communicate any further. A cut-off from a person or a situation that is intentional and singularly unknown to the person that is being “ghosted”. You can feel the “ghosts” presence online, but you can never concretely

Women and Masturbation Guilt

As humans, sexual pleasure is as basic a need for us as food, water and shelter. Who better to give us this basic need than our own selves?  Masturbation then becomes a natural expression of this fundamental desire. Society and cultural norms however seek to control and disguise this natural phenomenon as unhealthy and sinful

Breaking Biases: Cognitive biases in daily life

The brain makes human beings capable of special abilities like thinking, information processing, and feeling. Although we like to consider ourselves as perceptive beings, we tend to make multiple misinterpretations while we process information. This leads to errors in judgment and faulty decision-making and is called cognitive biases. Cognitive biases are essentially short-cuts created by