Mental Blossoms - The Wellness Stream: Recent Episodes
Good Lives
Stress has become a part of our lives in one way or another. As the world is becoming a lonelier place, we want to deal with it all by ourselves. This has led to a lot of mental health issues. Good Lives aims at helping you find the right guidance about keeping your mental health upright.
In these Podcast episodes, we talk to various mental health experts and therapists, to equip you to fight the battles against mental health problems faced by you or your near ones.
Listen to the Mental Health Journey of Ashna & the dark side of being a social media influencer.
Listen to the Mental Health Journey of Nishtha with mental discomfort & how it started with changing environment.
Listen to the Mental Health Journey of Ishika and how overwhelming emotions & undiagnosed depression affected her life.
Listen to the Mental Health Journey of Manrpeet & how social anxiety & adjustment disorder affected him and the role of therapy in his recovery.
Listen to the Mental Health Journey of Saurabh & how anxiety was born out of career changes & family issues.
We are soon releasing our new series of podcasts! You can listen to Saurabh's journey with Mental Health issues. Teaser out now! 💜
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Good Lives focusses on making mental health services accessible to all and creating mental health awareness at the workplace and otherwise. We help our clients handle Relationship problems, emotional difficulties, life transitions, anger/stress management, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, depression and creativity blocks. In this episode, Ms. Prakriti Nanda, who is a therapist with Good Lives and Ms. Diksha Sharma talk about the various mental health issues like depression and anxiety that are being faced by people and the reason why people might be experiencing such problems.
Ms. Prakriti and Ms. Diksha also touched upon how therapy helps and when the right time to seek therapy is. They also highlighted how one should seek help and how talking to someone helps in rewiring the thought process.
Good Lives focusses on making mental health services accessible to all and creating mental health awareness at the workplace and otherwise. We offer services such as LGBTQIA+ Counselling, Marriage and Family Therapy and Group Therapy to our clients. In this episode, Ms. Rupa Nagarajan, who is a therapist with Good Lives and Mr. Arnab Nandy discuss the stigma associated with mental health and the difficulties faced by the LGBTQIA+ community in our society. Click on the episode and listen to the discussion they both had around the below points.
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What is queer affirmative/queer sensitive therapy?
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Why is it important to find the right therapist?
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Why are people hesitant to seek therapy?
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Specific challenges of the community
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How do we go about destigmatizing and normalizing therapy?
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Is it important to build a support network for significant allies?
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How do we go about building a more inclusive society?
Good Lives focusses on making mental health services accessible to all and creating mental health awareness at the workplace and otherwise. We offer services such as Expressive Arts Therapy, Creative Arts Therapy, Movement Arts Therapy and Queer Affirmative Counselling to our clients. In this episode, Mr. Sidhanta Borkataky, who is a therapist with Good Lives talks about stress and stress management. He shared his insights on what stress is, its benefits as well as symptoms, the factors causing stress and how one can understand the stress they are facing. Mr. Sidhanta also carried out a few grounding & relaxing exercises and other activities to explore feelings related to stress.