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The Visitor in a Small Body

A grey day it was. It had been like that since morning. I didn’t think the sun was going to come out. It was drizzling lightly. I thought of stopping by the park before going home. I just wanted to unwind after the whirlwind shopping. Ramya, my old time friend, had to do all her shopping at the last minute. Thankfully she was leaving tonight. My feet were killing me!  It was nearing 6 o’clock and I knew I did not have much time. Vidyut, my son, had his flute class at 7pm. The weather being the way it was, the park was nearly empty. Here and there few children were playing. Their parents cajoling them to come away as evening would soon be upon. I smiled remembering how some six years back I was doing the same thing with Vidyut. He was always happy being outside the house. Always happy to be with lots of company, irrelevant was it if he knew them or not. It was so simple to put him into play school. As soon as he crossed the doorstep of his school he would forget that I had come to d...
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The Womb, Moon and Mother Earth

Yesterday, I had a deeply moving conversation with a client who had experienced a miscarriage. In the quiet of that exchange, an image arose within me: that perhaps the life that came briefly had not come in vain, but as a sacred preparation. That the tiny being had absorbed what was heavy, what was toxic, what was unresolved-making a way for a healthier beginning to come. I shared with her the wisdom of farmers. When land has been overworked or saturated with chemicals, they do not immediately sow their most precious crop. First, they plant restorative grasses- varieties that draw toxins from the soil, cleanse it, and return vitality to the earth. Only then is the ground turned, softened, and made ready for new seed. She understood the tenderness beneath the metaphor. How often we forget that the womb, like the earth, is living intelligence. It knows cycles of clearing, resting, preparing, and blooming. What looks like loss to the human eye may sometimes be part of a deeper reordering...
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Embracing Menopause Positively through Art

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The peri menopausal and menopausal transition makes us aware of our changing brain chemistry. And I know this because when I began noticing changes in me, I went in search of answers. I spoke to my Gynac and a few more, did a lot of research into what Homeopathy and Ayurveda had to offer, read books, listened to the available podcasts on menopause and understood a lot of things. One was that there was a lack of awareness and shame associated with the topic. But practicing as a psychotherapist, I was hearing very similar and some new expressions of menopause. Thus began my journey into understanding menopause and spreading awareness. Essentially what happens is that estrogen, which plays a very important role in a woman’s body begins to dip as we enter peri menopause ( around age 33-35)  and further dips as we near menopausal age ( around age 45-53). This insufficiency of estrogen in our system affects the way our brain responds to us. We would have noticed that we walk into a room ...
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