Caring Matters
New-age author Eckhart Tolle, conjured up the term pain-body, to explain the repressed emotional pain viscerally carried around inside a person. Most of us carry some kind of pain-body which is manifested as physical and [Read More]
It is common for parents to dismiss a child’s reactivity or non-reactivity as ‘oh she is in one of her moods” or ‘he is just going through a moody phase’. Believing in due course their child [Read More]
Currently, I am in a liminal space, an in-between state where my traumatized past self is nearly gone but my new personality is still in development. For years, I was frozen in time, a frightened, [Read More]
Since my article on the emotional fascia and its implications in the development of scoliosis, I wanted to know how the fascia connects to the brain and which part of it. On researching, I learned [Read More]
There is this saying, ‘I cried because I had no shoes, till I saw a man with no feet.” No doubt, our trauma is valid and we have a right to feel resentful, angry, sad, [Read More]
Understanding and learning to negotiate consent is a critical life skill. Knowing one’s rights and boundaries can help kids navigate tricky situations. And the earlier kids learn to practice consent the better able they will [Read More]
Like many who suffer from scoliosis, I have lived with chronic pain for most of my life. And I have grown so used to it that when I was in labor I did not feel [Read More]
The common advice in treating scoliosis is to stretch the damn curve out. But of course, we all know that it does not work. Forcing muscles into a particular position can do more damage to [Read More]
For a long time, I didn’t really understand when Dr. Hannibel asked Clarice, in the famous movie, Silence of the Lambs, “Well, Clarice… have the lambs stopped screaming?” It is only now after 4 years [Read More]
As parents, many of us fail to provide unconditional positive regard – the one ingredient that is vital for the development of an authentic and truly happy human. We rarely accept our kids as they [Read More]