Art Therapist Monica

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

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

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

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