Voices in the Waiting Room: An Excerpt
Voices in the Waiting Room is a book by psychiatrist Mayank Gupta. As the publisher Rupa shares, the book emerges
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Mental health and books
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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How to Notice the Good: Cailin Hargreaves on Glimmers, and Sharing the Light
By Amrita Tripathi Ahead of World Mental Health Day, I had a chance to chat with poet and author Cailin
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Bandaged Moments: A New Book
Bandaged Moments is a collection of short stories of (and around) Mental Health by women writers across India. Edited by
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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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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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Book Excerpt: The Other Sister by Amrita Tripathi
Read an excerpt from The Other Sister / watch a short video of the excerpt and behind the scenes below
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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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