I am learning to challenge that voice that tells me I am worthless. I am learning to have a dialogue with it, ask it questions, and look at it …
Tag: mental health
Living With Mental Illness
"I feel empty and hollow yet they say, 'Stop wallowing in your made-up sorrow'.”
Breaking the Generational Trauma Cycle
I find myself frequently wondering how we can ever break this cycle of trauma and hurt passed from generation to generation.
Alive, But Not
What a world it was when the others lived. When we worked to live and not lived to work.
Megha Rao’s Podcast ‘Poems to Calm Down To’: A Lullaby For Adults
The 25-year-old spoken word poet's podcast have been a source of much needed peace for many amidst the pandemic.
Debris
A poem written from a world of darkness, with the will to find oneself again.
Identity, Mental Health and the State: Being the Wife of a Political Prisoner
Journalist Prashant Kanojia, arrested for allegedly sharing a morphed post on Twitter, finally got bail last week after spending two months in jail.
Everyday Feminism, One Step at a Time
On challenging the orthodox and conservative values of my family.
Music as Part of Our Everyday Lives
How music helped me on my darkest days.