IntegrativeMindfulnessBasedTherapy

Just like the stomach, the brain also has its bad days. When the stomach isn’t fed healthy and nutritious meals for a long span, it is bound to get upset. And so, we head to the physician for treatment.   Similarly, if the brain isn’t fed the right things in the form of self-love and relationships, the brain is bound to react, and that reaction is known as depression. Then, why are we scared to get treated? We have made depression into a taboo, something whose news should not cross the walls of our home. Parents, whose kids are suffering through depression, are unable to understand its seriousness and take it to be another teenage or high school problem.  Recent studies have revealed that up to 15% of children and adolescents have shown symptoms of depression. It could be due to peer pressure, family problems, changing hormone levels, studies, social media, and various other factors. It isn’t something the child can easily snap out of or forget after sociali...

A family is where our roots are, a family is from where it all starts!  A family is a place from where we learn our very first life lessons. Whether a kinship or a guardian family, it influences every small or big aspect of our lives. Our habits, rituals, interactions and the way we perceive the world outside is learned with and from them. Schools and communities come much later; it’s the family that conditions and shapes us from the very beginning. If we are brought up in a happy and healthy family atmosphere, it is bound to reflect in our interactions and how we ultimately shape up. Children brought up under healthy atmospheres grow up to be the adults who forge healthy and sound relationships. On the flip side, if one is brought up a dysfunctional family, there will always be struggle involved while trusting and connecting with the outside world. Though the latter indeed is an unfortunate situation, it can be worked upon and set right with the inclusion of an ...