Art Therapist Monica

Depression is a common and serious mental health condition that affects how a person thinks, feels, and behaves. It goes beyond normal feelings of sadness and can have a significant impact on a person's daily life, relationships, and overall well-being. Depression symptoms can vary from person to person and can range in severity. These range from persistent sadness, loss of interest, changes in appetite , feelings of worthlessness, sleep disturbance, fatigue etc: Art therapy

February brings in the season of love largely, due to celebrations of valentine’s day. Whether you are in a relationship, single or let’s say complex it’s a month of celebration Truly the month is what you want this to be. For couples in love, it can mean gifts, dinners, and rendezvous and for another day of showing appreciation to people who matter and still other’s a day of loving yourself the most. Art and love have an intricate connection going back centuries. Think, th

The start of the new year is always looked upon with anticipation of a new beginning. A world where our desires which are endless will be met be it a new job, a new boss or the vacation we have been dreaming forever. The excitement fades as we move through the year. Our monkey minds needs and desires change or are unmet, the magical becomes the ordinary Why not look at the new year as a moment of time then? A moment when we can be anything or nothing. · A moment when w

Have you ever paid attention to the little voice inside of you? The one that might remind you of your younger self. No matter how old we grow, we carry our younger selves within us day-to-day. Perhaps our hurt 5-year-old self-shows up when our best friend doesn't answer our phone call, or our misunderstood 15-year-old self comes out when a colleague doesn't see eye to eye. Caring for this younger version of ourselves is what inner child work is all about. The inner child is a

We all know this voice in our head that constantly criticizes, belittles, and judges us. Its relentless destructive chatter is also...

Are you : · Being self-critical, self-loathing and self-judging · Feeling inadequate, unworthy or undeserving · ...

Snapshot of life be it Delhi or Beijing. Morning rush to get to office, a hurried “Hello”, to your colleagues followed by meetings, emails, calls and discussion. Lunch often a quick one talking to coworkers or alone and then the long ride home. For some the work continues even at airport tarmac or in the metro to ensure nothing gets missed. The day ends attending to family and dinner and then the Netflix or some other show is put on to relax at night. In between all the above

The 21st century workplaces are marked by the growing intensity of workload, constant stress, competitive work cultures, difficulties in...

Over years as part of school and college groups, late night conversation with friends and in therapy I have heard phrases like "I wish I...

A simple question I ask at the beginning of a session in workshops. The groups vary from college children to adults and often seniors....

A common life of a common man! In terms of age, he /she will evolve from being a baby, a child, a teenager, an adult, a middle aged person, to being old and dead. Romantically, most will be in any or many of the following brackets in a lifetime i.e., single, married, divorced, widowed, and remarried. Health wise most of us will be in good shape at least when young. Over time most would have had some illness be it fever or cold or serious ones like cancer or paralysis. Sexual

Stressors abound in our modern world. Children, parents, jobs, hobbies, money, health all contribute to our wellbeing and to our stress. In case of anything going wrong, be it a car accident, an angry altercation with the neighbor, or a robbery, most of us react with emotions. The severity and kind will of course vary. The real beginning of healing is when we accept what has happened. Acceptance also comes with a realization that you may have contributed to what happened. Thi

Total 24 hours in a cycle of a day. How did you spend it? Shopping, cooking, household chores, work, driving, working out, the list goes...

What an odd statement but the statement has enormous implication in your life. Let me explain! As you fell off to sleep what did you think of? What area of your life? Who were the primary players in these thoughts? What emotional response did they bring forth, fear, loss, pain, healing or love? When you drift off to sleep, your last thoughts stay with you. You are in effect inhaling the last emotions of the day which can be negative or positive. Your thoughts are also influen

A typical day in NY City, Toronto, China, Mumbai or Delhi. What do we see? Most office-goers are getting themselves and their family ready for the work day. Rushing to catch the train, the metro or drive by car, working on a project, a job, a title, rushing home, cooking dinner or ordering take-outs, playing with the children if they have the time, tending to everyday things and phew, finally falling asleep! We spend close to 8 X 300 = 2400 hours per year working for a living

Most of us struggle to say “Yes”. In our journey we often forgive others, show compassion to others, yet, the one person we forget is...

We all have wants and needs, real and cultivated, influenced by ego and culture and society. Maslow, in 1943 created a pyramid of these needs starting with physiological, safety, love, belonging and ending with self actualization. Appealing classification! Let’s use his pyramid for this message, albeit a bit differently. Replace erudite terms like self actualization with joy. Now let’s start looking at our needs and wants from the top down i.e., joy is the starting point. Th

Planet Earth, is a good learning school, a school where we are given opportunities again and again to change our ways of being, and for our patterns to evolve. For this to occur our lives are often shaken at times. The precursor could be difficult situations at work, a long illness of a family member, loan payments, marriage of our children, etc What do we do when faced with these? “Worry”, “Worry”, “Worry “, “Worry”. Worry is translated in the form of unimaginable scenarios

Whoever actually understands that can dive into the essence of this message. Children are innocent, trusting, open, playful and enchanted, all things divinity asks us to be. By being so they are also aware of the otherworld, the world of fairies, angels, gnomes, plant and animal spirits. All spirits like to interact with these beings for they bring to them a chance of happiness and joy. Think of an adult and a child in an open park. It will always be the child who will ru