Category Archives: Inner Child Work

Story medicine

Stories are medicine. They heal us because we draw emotional connections to them. Over the last few years I have been not only studying the healing arts, but also storytelling, screenplay writing and its various aspects. I love Carl Jung’s … Continue reading

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Jealousy ~ A gateway into your lost self

Today early morning as I opened Facebook, I was hit by a wave of jealousy. A Facebook friend who I barely know and who I consider an achiever in her field had posted some photographs with a beautiful description of light … Continue reading

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Pitfalls of spiritual techniques

A few days back I’d put this up on my Facebook page which attracted a lot of surprise and so I decided to write further on it – I heard a second case of a person who got mentally thrashed in … Continue reading

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Childhood Rage

She walked into the house after a long commute back from work, with eyes flashing angrily at her mother who opened the door. She went straight into her room and banged the door shut. It was clear that she was … Continue reading

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The Doership of Love

I have an issue with love. I thought I had control over who I fall in love with. I was taught, through various mediums that I [must] fall in love with someone who is wealthy, someone who is handsome, who … Continue reading

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Singing for life

Since childhood I was trained to be a singer under my father’s guidance. However, as I entered and won several competitions through my teenage years, the one goal of enjoying oneself through one’s art, was lost in the other goal: … Continue reading

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Songs to Aging Children

Parents grow old. Naturally. And yet it can be a difficult transition for both parties. Especially because sometimes we seem to be stuck in a self-image as their children. I read a beautiful article on 8 things your aging parents want … Continue reading

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Lessons in loving

I recently wrote something on relating where I discovered how love is merely the knowing of someone’s nearness to you. I was surprised and deeply comforted to read this extract on loving someone in Nisargadatta Maharaj’s “I am That”, a … Continue reading

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Where do you try to belong?

Last Sunday in a powerful session with GD, I discovered where my fear of holding myself back from giving my all comes from. I always had a sense that I need to hold myself back. That I was never really … Continue reading

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Being Vulnerable

Originally posted on Serene Reflection:
If you are the kind that needs research to validate what common sense and your heart will tell you easily enough, then you may want to listen to Brene Brown’s brilliant TED talk, ‘The Power…

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Sexual objectivism

As Anuja, founder of Inner Light healing center, and I started discussions on building our first workshop together on Inner Child healing, we stumbled upon the topic of sexuality. As we shared our experiences with each other, it was interesting … Continue reading

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Home is Where The Heart Is

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Where have you parked your source of happiness? Who or what have you made your singular object of affection? These were the questions that arose in three different conversations within a few days of each…

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Glorifying Victimization

Ways in which we glorify our victimization: 1. We are constantly defining ourselves by the stories of what we lost and where we got hurt, rather than what we learnt. 2. We cannot find anything good or good enough about ourselves. … Continue reading

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For the compassionate one

It was a deep dark Sunday morning. A voice in my head had just convinced me – yes I have hit depression. Nothing made sense anymore and a part of my inside had plummeted into a forsaken place. Except that … Continue reading

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Winning Strategies to Loss Accumulators

This post by Sangeeta Bhagwat is so timely! Winning Strategies to Loss Accumulators. As I re-blog this, I share a discovery I made just yesterday while talking to another therapist-friend. I was sharing with her how guilt has been such … Continue reading

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