Making Sense of the Emotional Lives of Teenagers
By Asma G When my 10-year-old nephew came into my care permanently three years ago, I was quite confident in
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Your Worry Makes Sense: Empathy in Book Form
By Asma G My first introduction to Dr Martin Brunet’s work was through a reel he posted on burnout. The reel
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Book Review: The Crucial Years
The premise of Dr. Ziegler’s book is that middle childhood (i.e. ages 6-12) is a crucial time in children’s lives that often goes unnoticed because parents tend to focus on the pre-school and high school years without realising that middle childhood is a formative period for children.
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My Take: More Mental Health Podcasts that Resonate
By Asma G A lot of habits have stayed with me from the pandemic. Some, like revenge bedtime procrastination, I
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My Take: Mental Health Podcasts That Resonate
There are podcasts and then there are podcasts! Here’s ‘My Take’ with Asma G, sharing some fab mental health podcasts that resonate.
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How to Fail by Elizabeth Day: A Raw, Relatable Look at Fertility, Feminism, and Failing Forward
By Asma G Content warning: The book contains mentions of fertility struggles including miscarriages. When I first considered reviewing How
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Out of Her Mind: How Society Fails Women’s Mental Health – A Review
By Asma G Content warning: The book reviewed here contains mentions of self-harm, suicide, sexual abuse, trauma and mental illness.
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Therapists Have Problems Too—Apple TV+’s Shrinking Delivers Laughs with a Side of Chaos
Apple TV+’s latest sitcom offers laughs, great performances, and a refreshing take on mental health professionals — just don’t mistake it for a therapy manual.
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Book Review: Matt Haig’s The Life Impossible
By Asma G “Eating watermelon in the sun was such a wonderful feeling I wondered why I hadn’t spent more
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Unpacking Love and Life: A Review of Red, Green, and Sometimes Beige
By Asma G “It feels like whiplash; for 20 years, my parents forbade me from dating and pushed me to
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