Online dating. It’s the new way of falling in love. But how I remember striking up a conversation with him on Okcupid! and then deciding to meet up in person. What was I feeling before we met? A mix of nerves, anticipation, fear, reluctance and excitement. It was unchartered territory…

A couple of years ago — when the concept of “self-care” started to become popular on the interwebs, I decided to incorporate some of these practices into my life. I trawled Pinterest and read blogs about how the bloggers and coaches and self-care gurus were looking after themselves. These often…

Sometimes I really regret not chancing upon research articles like this back when I was a student in college. 😉 I loved studying but was a very lazy student and was always consistently on the hunt for the most efficient study techniques — so that I could study less and…

I used to be a pretty melancholic and emotionally volatile person in the past, prone to dark, depressing negative thoughts. I’d think the worst of a person or situation which resulted in me either not taking any action or jumping to the wrong conclusions about someone. Having negative thought cycles…

Have you ever felt like whenever you get on the negative thinking train, your mind starts to spiral out of control? Take that control back! Getting aware of the types of cognitive distortions your mind is putting you through is the first step to breaking that negative thought pattern process. Listen to this episode to find out what are the 13 most common cognitive distortions we have and start figuring out which ones you commonly fall “prey” to.

If you’ve been on a couple of dates in your life, you’ve probably come up against people who displayed behaviour that made you feel uncomfortable and uneasy, but they weren’t in-your-face enough to actually trouble you. Our subsconscious/intuition/gut/ whatever you wanna call it sometimes pick up on warning signals or…

Have you ever been on a date where there was something kinda off about the person in front of you, but you just couldn’t put your finger on why that is? Could it be the way he keeps eyeing other women who pass your table? (yes). Or could it be…

It was painful. I was wiped out from the 3 hour discussion we had, completely drained, emotionally exhausted — yet I still had to debrief the team. In spite of all that, you barely get a thank you or an appreciation of the hard work that you’ve done. …

Has the past 9 months been such a whirlwind of stuff or what? I can hardly remember what I was doing before Covid-19 hit us all. One minute we were celebrating the New Year’s, the next minute we were reading about rising community numbers about this strange virus. …