Art Therapist Monica

Deciding whether art therapy is the right approach for you depends on your preferences, comfort level with expressing yourself through...

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...

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

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

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