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Enjoying the mad hatter’s trigger party
April 30, 2025, 12:14 PM IST
Welcome back to the last instalment on the trigger train. We usually try to limit our article series to a neat 3 parts, but Temptation Goddess had other ideas. Here is our conclusion to our…
April 30, 2025, 12:14 PM IST
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Triggers -Through the looking glass
April 17, 2025, 6:18 PM IST
Welcome back! Have you heard the term ‘Glimmer’? No, we are not talking about the glimmering lights in the windows. We recently learnt that in the context of mental health and the nervous system, the…
April 17, 2025, 6:18 PM IST
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Down the rabbit hole of Triggers
April 9, 2025, 12:43 PM IST
Most of you have probably heard about Pavlov and his dogs. It was one of the first experiments in making any living thing react in a certain way. For those unfamiliar with this instance, here…
April 9, 2025, 12:43 PM IST
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Triggers: A recipe for chaos (and maybe growth)
February 25, 2025, 10:37 AM IST
“Triggers are the levers that make us behave in a particular way.” In many ways, they’re like those annoying buttons your sibling used to press when you were a kid—except now, life is the annoying…
February 25, 2025, 10:37 AM IST
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Recapture the Sense of Awe and Wonder
February 19, 2025, 11:43 AM IST
Last we met, we promised to help you recapture the sense of awe and wonder in life. It’s not easy but the results will be worth it. And no, we are not advertising fitness or…
February 19, 2025, 11:43 AM IST
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Why isn’t there a Sense of Awe anymore?
February 17, 2025, 1:01 PM IST
Some of the responses to our last article made us realise that easy access to information need not always be the enemy of a sense of wonder. For example, there are children who are so…
February 17, 2025, 1:01 PM IST
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The amazing sense of Awe
February 10, 2025, 10:24 AM IST
That feeling of WoW which we felt when we were kids had the power to make us feel extremely joyful, make us curious and nudge us to dream. We still vividly remember the first time…
February 10, 2025, 10:24 AM IST
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Mall Rat-tled.
August 2, 2023, 3:00 PM IST
Many many moons ago, we in Bangalore had a great destination to go to. It was called Kids Kemp. It provided customer experience like never before. Depending on an estimate of your spend, a nice-looking…
August 2, 2023, 3:00 PM IST
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Navigating the canyon of suppression
December 15, 2022, 11:36 AM IST
The train of thoughts has had quite an extended stop at this station. The engine is about to start tooting and the train will begin its journey to the next station. Before that, however, let…
December 15, 2022, 11:36 AM IST
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The gorges in the suppression canyon
December 9, 2022, 8:00 PM IST
Everyone who has been on a trek has probably experienced this at least once – just when you feel like you have climbed the summit, you realise that you have encountered yet another gorge. This…
December 9, 2022, 8:00 PM IST
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Emotional suppression – A chaotic canyon
November 28, 2022, 10:42 AM IST
We have moved on a little from the Invalidation station, but we are yet to cross the district of emotional reactions. Today’s discussion is about something that is connected to invalidation but is not about…
November 28, 2022, 10:42 AM IST
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Climbing out of the invalidation abyss
November 14, 2022, 11:33 AM IST
Our extended stop at the Validation station continues. We discussed how children who face invalidation in childhood react as adults. Of course, this is not a mathematical equation where it is always A x B…
November 14, 2022, 11:33 AM IST
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Validation: A price worth paying?
October 31, 2022, 12:12 PM IST
Here is a scene that is perhaps familiar to many readers. You have probably seen it sometime in reel life if not in real life. . Someone works really hard to put a project together…
October 31, 2022, 12:12 PM IST
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The volcano of anger
September 19, 2022, 10:54 PM IST
There is a common scene in most cartoons – there is a character filling air into a balloon and ends up filling it so much that it ends up exploding. And not just air, sometimes…
September 19, 2022, 10:54 PM IST
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The skeins of the guilt cobweb
September 14, 2022, 11:05 PM IST
The last article on guilt was meant to be a single stop at the guilt station but some of the responses to the article showed that it is not as easily dealt with. Guilt is…
September 14, 2022, 11:05 PM IST
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The cobweb of guilt
September 5, 2022, 11:58 AM IST
Emotions are like a patchwork quilt. There are multiple shades of colour and types of fabric in the quilt. However, only some of these colours are eye-catching and create an impression. However, the quilt is…
September 5, 2022, 11:58 AM IST
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Those cursed by empathy
August 23, 2022, 9:34 PM IST
Mindful Empathy is a good thing to have. The defining feature of an empath is not that they are keenly aware of others’ emotions, but that they experience those emotions personally. They are constantly at…
August 23, 2022, 9:34 PM IST
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The curse of empathy
August 17, 2022, 4:36 PM IST
I normally get multiple online course recommendations while scrolling through social media and sometimes even Google News on my phone. Today, I saw a recommendation that made me pause scrolling – not out of interest,…
August 17, 2022, 4:36 PM IST
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