1. Delaying grief, suspending celebrations
When is the right time to process our experience in the time of Covid-19?
June 22, 2025
2. The Stress of living with uncertainty
No matter how small or tragic your experience has been, all of us are living in suspense of the virus and up against uncertainty…
3. Adaptation
How adaptive we are to this protracted stress of the pandemic takes on different emotional shapes and compensatory behaviors.
4. On coping
Without judging our coping mechanisms as good or bad, let’s just take a step back from how you fill your days to how you feel in your days. That is, to listen to that inner dialogue.
5. Shadow Work: Integrating Our Darker Emotions for Wholeness and Authenticity
Our wounds, our sorrows, our nastiness, or dark side is all comprised in the shadow of our psyches. We may deliberately keep some of these parts well-hidden from society or family and friends.
6. On renewal
What many folks may not realise, spring commencing in April on is the highest rate for suicide here in the UK, the US, and internationally. I want to lift up the psychoanalytical perspective of this causal link between spring and our internal suffering.
7. On productivity
What is the unconscious impulse to DO and be REALLY busy even in a pandemic, even in lockdown?
8. The Impact of Othering on Identity
How do we see outside the binary of either/or in these divisive times? If the tension of current times is any indication, we are unable to relate to each other due to the clashing of complex identities and values. It seems easier to live in separate worlds/bubbles/cultures/platforms in the further atomization of our existence.
9.Rediscovering Your Persona: Transitioning into Social Life
Apropos to our times, the persona is a kind of ‘mask’ we put on. The persona is the superficial posturing we put on that conceals our real Self. It is the PR part of our personality.