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A digital map of my varied brainwaves 🧠
Psychotherapist| Consulting Psychologist
For the sparks of life 🐚
Insight Seeker & all things aesthetics 🪄

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This is our 2nd edition of Tides, a reflective support group for daughters who have lost their mothers to death, starting October 3rd.

🪻Who is this for?

This group is designed for individuals who-

🍃Identify with themes of daughterhood and mother loss: Open to cis women, trans women, and non binary or gender expansive people who resonate with themes around daughterhood, mothers, grief, and navigating life after this loss. For ages between 21 and 60 years.

🍃Are familiar with therapy or emotional processing: Have engaged in counselling or reflective practices (e.g., journaling, meditation, art therapy) and can hold space for complex feelings.

🍃Value emotional growth and reflection: Recognize the importance of personal development and are committed to ongoing self exploration.

🍃Are open to vulnerability: Willing to share, listen, and sit with your own and others’ emotions with empathy and non judgment.

🍃Have coping tools to ground yourself: Bring resources like mindfulness, movement, humor, creative expression, or trusted support systems to regulate between sessions.

🍃Are not past or current clients of either facilitator: To maintain healthy boundaries and emotional safety for all participants.

🪻Logistics and Pricing

☘️Time: Saturdays, 4:00 PM –5:30 PM (90 minutes with a 10 minute break)

☘️Dates: 3rd October, 10th October, 17th October, 24th October, 2026.

(Re-connecting post festive breaks!)

☘️14th November, 21st November, 28th November, and 5th December 2026.

☘️Platform: Google Meet

☘️Group size: Intimate circle of 6–8 participants

☘️Pricing: ₹12,000 for all eight sessions

Two sliding-scale slots are available to support participation by individuals from DBA (Dalit, Bahujan, and Adivasi) and trans communities. Kindly understand the group space is offered to participants post an intentional intake call and the sliding scale slots are filled out on the first come first serve basis.

Participant intake form and a document containing more details about the group have been linked in the bio.

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➡️ Here's what happened at BIC • May 5-14

Featuring:
📍Yadā
📍Raseedi Ticket
📍Nationalism and Culture
📍Writing In English for the Indian Stage
📍This Shouldn’t Work
📍Tides: Moving with Mother Grief
📍The Story of Our Saris
📍Knockers
📍Phantoms of the Past
📍Yugant

All BIC events are free and open to all ✉️ RSVP for upcoming events on the website!

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Finding The Right Therapist

Our longstanding Podcast Series Talk-Therapy has been running for over 3 years now and it is always our endeavour to psycho-educate society, whilst at the same time bringing the most insightful, appropriate guests, just as equally, examining mental-health through different lenses

This particular dialogue titled The Right Fit, as the name suggests, is about investigating, navigating, and identifying a therapist who works for an individual and their unique distress-type

However, while we usually share a short excerpt from each podcast YouTube Episode as a Reel for the audience to get a preview of what they can expect from the entire conversation, we have never shared the actual Show Intro - the Packaging or founder Kartik's Episode Introduction, and we felt it might be a good idea to do that

Hence you might find this reel a bit of a departure from previous ones which necessarily have and primarily focus on the Guest. Having already made and posted that reel for The Right Fit, we are sharing another reel on the same episode, though presenting a completely different part of the dialogue

Do visit our YouTube Channel @drivewaydevi or use the Link-In-Bio to watch the Full Episode

#mentalhealth #psychologicalcounselling #lifeguidance #talktherapy #findingatherapist

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The Right Fit - A Talk Therapy Dialogue around Identifying An Appropriate Mental-Health Professional, with Consulting Psychologist Harsimrat Kaur

Even for those in the know, navigating one's path and clearly locating a mental-health resource that is fitting, appropriate, qualified, ethical, in-budget; in addition to these facets, someone with whom one can establish a positive rapport and a therapeutic alliance that will yield the desired results, can be a daunting task

Who better then, than a psychologist, to guide us through the process. The do's and don'ts, the rights and wrongs, what factors to carefully consider and what safeguards to adopt. All this and more is meticulously explained by the insightful Harsimrat in this most important dialogue

We would urge you to listen to this episode carefully, because choosing correctly, is half the problem solved!

Visit our YouTube Channel @drivewaydevi or use the Link-In-Bio to watch the Full Episode

#mentalhealth #pscyhologicalcounselling #lifeguidance #talktherapy #findingatherapist

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As someone who lost her mom in childhood, I noticed that never in my life did anyone check in on me during mother's Day, except for my dad maybe. This day was (and still is) all about celebrating some idealized notion of motherhood people carry. But nowhere was there space to acknowledge that Anna Jarvis founded Mother's Day to grieve her own mother's loss, and to create a day for daughters worldwide who’ve lost theirs to honour that grief.

Then capitalism entered the chat, appropriating the day through corporations selling "celebrations" in the way they know best. And what we know about this system is that it doesn't want people to pause and grieve. Thus my grief never found space or validation, because at a collective level, we are made to avoid grief for the discomfort it carries. So we'd rather numb ourselves and force shallow joy onto our bodies.

But I don't want to live in a world where realising joy means locking my grief away where it's invisible to others, palatable enough for them to consume in small chunks. No, our grief will not be palatable. We're here to reclaim this day, to grieve, to re-member our mothers with all our raw emotions: anger, love, hurt, disappointment. Not to eulogize the relationship, but simply to be.

And this is exactly what happened in this gathering. We realized we just needed to bring together a room full of daughters sharing this grief, and that was enough. Our roles as facilitators ended there; we became redundant, and rightly so. It was an honour and a pleasure to witness what unfolded in that room.

Sometimes coming together in shared grief is enough to dismantle systems.

My understanding of this loss has expanded and I am learning that grief cannot be rushed, so I'm slowing down, taking a pause, smiling at my silliness, and tending to my tears.
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Thank you all who made this happen, the daughters who joined, @bicblr for offering the space, and special thanks to @ofthemindandheart and @gyanchiiii 💜💜

Participants' faces or profiles are not shared to protect consent and privacy; however, consent was obtained to share their clay artworks.

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📍9 May | Sat | 4:00PM

➡️ Mother Grief

📍Please note that this event is only for womxn aged 18+

A reflective, art-based reflective circle for those who identify as women, Tides invites you to sit with the loss of your mother. This includes cis women, trans women, and non-binary or gender expansive individuals, who resonate with themes of mothers, grief, and navigating life after this loss. The aim is to bear witness to the grief in ourselves and in each other.

Participants will be guided through sharing circles and experiential activities using clay and beads. Not to eulogize the mother-daughter relationship, but to make space for its greys and nuances. You are not expected to perform your loss, or grieve the ‘right’ way. All of it is welcome here: the tenderness, the anger, the ambivalence, the love.

Free and open to all ✉️

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Mood swings during #contraception can be very real.

It’s important to listen to your body and trust what it tells you because changes can be #gradual and hard to notice.

Learn when to question the method vs questioning yourself. Feelings are datapoints that can lead to changing what doesn’t work for you.

#AmirrahImpact for #sexualhealth & #emotionalwellbeing

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Tides: Moving with the Mother Grief — Rediscovering and Rebuilding the Self (We have a few slots remaining)

A 6-week online support group for women navigating the tender, complex landscape of mother loss.

This is for the daughters who no longer have mothers.
For those riding the waves of grief, memory, and meaning.
For those learning to live again—with love, with longing, and with the self that emerges on the other side of loss.

Beginning on Mother’s Day, May 11, we invite you into a gently held space to sit beside your grief, let the tides move through you, and begin the slow, soulful work of rediscovery and rebuilding.

✨ Weekly Sunday sessions (May 11 – June 15)
✨ Facilitated by therapists and fellow grievers, Fizapreet & Harsimrat
✨ Intimate circle of 6–8 participants
✨ Reflective prompts, storytelling, art-based explorations, and shared witnessing
✨ Google Meet | 90 mins each week
✨Session time: 12pm to 1:30 pm
✨Standard fee: ₹6,000

This space is not about “getting over it.”
It’s about learning to live with it—making space for the grief, while also making space for you.

You, as you are now.
You, as you are becoming.

Grief, though devastating, often cracks open the questions we were never taught to ask:
Who am I without her?
What do I need now?
How do I care for the woman I am becoming?

This space will gently support you as you begin to reimagine yourself—rooted in memory, anchored in love, and open to possibility.

📥 Link in bio to explore more and apply.
We’re so grateful you’re here.

#TidesSupportGroup #MotherGrief #womengrieve #GriefHealing #GriefSupport #RediscoveringSelf #RebuildingAfterLoss #TherapyGroup #GriefAndGrowth #DaughtersWithoutMothers #MovingWithTheGrief #HealingInCommunity #SelfAfterLoss
#MothersDay #Mother'sDay2025

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Share so others can learn too.
But first,

All (legit) #therapiatofinstagram , you're the real MVP's 😎

I guess we all have faced at least more than 1 client asking for free services blatantly when there's an option even for sliding scales. Yes, there's pro bono work, but we are humans who need to put food on our tables too.

Stop treating the #therapistcommunity as "rich people fixers". Neither do we fix people nor mental health is a rich problem.

Therapists are not perfume testers. We have a legit role to play and deserve the respect that we've worked hard for.

#explore #fyp #reels #reelitfeelit #mentalhealth #mentalhealthsupport #mentalhealthmatters #therapists #therapy #counsellors #counsellingservices

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