by Nivedita Ramanujam | Mar 1, 2019 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health, Mindfulness and Meditation
Do you find yourself hurting over things people say easily these days? Perhaps you are experiencing a difficult relationship? Perhaps your adult child is not communicating with you? Maybe your partner is quick tempered. Do you find yourself welling up or feeling...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jan 1, 2019 | Health & Wellness, Relationships
Sometimes we may have been so violated and hurt by someone or an incident that it leaves us in smarting and entrapped in feelings of deep pain. The same thoughts, memories and words ring in our mind. It might also get up to a point where the painful emotions, thoughts...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Nov 1, 2018 | Health & Wellness, Mental Health
Imagine this: Your child hates school because he fears being asked questions by the teacher in math class. Having to stand up in class mumbling a possible answer or worse staying silent can be extremely unnerving. He feels that he is being ridiculed by some of his...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Sep 1, 2018 | Cancer Support
If you were to research cancer, you would be given a lot of statistics, medical jargon and all sorts of cases and treatment options. Stephen J Gould’s essay, The Median Isn’t the Message, which he wrote shortly after his diagnosis and takes a look at cancer statistics...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jun 1, 2018 | Cancer Support, EMDR
This pilot study examined the effects of EMDR and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy in treating posttraumatic stress disorder in cancer patients in the follow-up phase of the disease. The study also aimed to examine whether EMDR treatment has a different impact on PTSD in...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Mar 1, 2018 | Cancer Support, EMDR
The exposure to a life-threatening disease such as cancer may constitute a traumatic experience that in some cases may lead to the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In recent years, several studies investigated this syndrome in patients with cancer,...
by Nivedita Ramanujam | Jan 1, 2018 | Cancer Support
We have all heard that stress predisposes us to illness. But how does stress really increase our susceptibility to illness? The body is built with homeostatic mechanisms to protect it from diseases and it keeps a close surveillance to keep itself safe and healthy. The...
