Buddhist practices and their connection to my well being
*Guest Post* Buddhist practices and their connection to my well being. How have people and philosophies influenced my search for meaning, self realization, health and well being? Richard Davidson, a renowned neuro-scientist outlined four components of well-being which have health-promoting effects on the brain. These four components are known as awareness, connection, insight, and purpose. […]
Feeling Secure or Distant and Anxious? What’s happening in your relationship?
Feeling Secure or Distant and Anxious? What’s happening in your relationship? Social media has taken somewhat of a liking to attachment theory. There are several versions of what attachment theory is and how to use it in the way we understand ourselves, the people we are dating or are in relationships with. A quick google […]
Is newness the other side of grief?
Is newness the other side of grief? Our may newsletter speaks to the topic of newness. Newness reminds me of new clothes, fresh delights, trepidation, and nervous happiness. Newness can also take the tonality of harshness sometimes. The feeling of being yanked out of what was comfortable, safe and unquestioned. As I put together the voices of […]
Experience of leisure
Experience of leisure I was looking forward to this break from work. I had a lot of plans in terms of catching up on pending chores, going out as a family to the outdoors and spending time in nature. Just the day before my leave plan I was chatting over the phone with my friend […]
Mindfulness and Masculinity
Mindfulness and Masculinity Masculinity is a huge and strong body of framework. It has lived through ideas, rules and principles for years. The medium it chooses to express itself is through human thoughts. To talk to masculinity has always been about raising one’s voice, stepping out of the body and taking the power it is […]
Book Review: Rain Must Fall- Nandita Basu
Book Review: Rain Must Fall -Nandita Basu Rain must Fall by Nandita Basu is a book I naturally gravitated to firstly because it was a Duckbill book. I have loved so many of their books and this one, with its cover and the blurb got me curious. Books tend to wrap me up in their […]
Book Review: Can You See Me?
Can You See Me? By Libby Scott and Rebecca Westcott, published by Scholastic Children’s Book, is about Tally a 11 year old person with Autism.
Book Review: Sherlock Holmes Connection
Book Review: Sherlock Holmes Connection Sherlock Holmes Connection by Martin Widmark, Katarina Genar, Anushka Ravishankar and Bikram Gosh and published by Duckbill Books was a wonderful gripping and political a book, through this adults eyes. It’s a children’s chapter book. A dear friend and a library educator encouraged me to read Anushka Ravishankar’s hook books […]
Perception of Drugs
The use and abuse of drugs has been an omnipresent concept in our pop culture, history, politics, social culture, personal discovery, and more. Whether we’re talking about smoking a joint or having a “rager”, at the end of the discussion, we are all partaking in the ‘drug culture’. At least that is what it seems […]