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Continue reading →: The People Who Leave During Your BecomingThe first thing that vanishes during a real crisis is sharam haya. Decorum. Social hesitation. The carefully ironed version of yourself that worried about what people might think. One day, somewhere between hospital corridors, exhaustion, survival, and emotional freefall, you become astonishingly besharam. Not rude. Not shameless in the ugly…
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Continue reading →: Relearning JoyThere is a moment in every long chapter of survival where the heart whispers a tiny question: Can I feel joy again? The question doesn’t arrive with confidence. It tiptoes in, shy as a guest unsure of whether they’re still welcome in the home of your life. After seasons spent…
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Continue reading →: The Myth of the New NormalNo one tells you how heavy love can get when you’re raising a child with special needs. Not the soft kind of heavy that rests warm in your arms, but the kind that presses on your chest even when you’re smiling. You become the sun, the moon, and the atmosphere…
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Continue reading →: The Art of Organized HealingSome people heal with touch, some with words. I heal by bringing order. The moment I start sorting through a space, a schedule, or even a conversation, something in me exhales. Chaos, to me, is not the enemy—it’s just unarranged energy asking for direction. Maybe healing doesn’t always arrive wrapped…
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Continue reading →: 🌿 The Cost of GrowthI never imagined my vocabulary would expand to include medical jargon before my child could even spell his own name. Yet here I am, a decade later, fluent in terms I wish I never had to learn. Some mothers collect recipes, travel itineraries, and photo albums. I collected discharge summaries,…
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Continue reading →: Growth in CostlyGrowth is costly. Yes, growth has a cost. Every new chapter in my life has been paid for with something precious. But maybe that’s also the point. Maybe the weight of what we lose is what makes us strong enough to carry what we gain. So here I am again,…
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Continue reading →: IT’S BEEN A WHILEFor a lot of things. For that long walk by the beach. For those sleepless nights that made you kill yourself. For all of it that didn’t make sense. It’s been a while for everything that troubled me bother me. Maybe this is how your grow out of things or…
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Continue reading →: Tanhai Ke Saathi.हम साथी यूँ तो तन्हाई के हैं,जब कोई शोर नहीं,जब किसी का साथ नहीं,तब, एक दूसरे की खैरियत पूछते हैं। तुम पूछते हो, “आज तुम कैसी हो?कैसी दिखती हो?क्या तुम्हें गले लगालूँ ? “ तुम्हारे इन आज के सवालों का जवाब,मैं कल दे पाती हूँ। और फिर, कोई देख न…
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Continue reading →: Grass is always greener on the other side.I am not quite assured if it is our conditioning or just human nature to assume that the grass is always greener on the other side. We are so entitled to our life struggles that even in a morbid situation our brain is wired to see something or someone and…
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Continue reading →: DeserveRead a line, Believe that you deserve it, and you will get it. It is part of the whole manifesting your dream and it shall come true. My overthinking mind went for a spin with this one for many days. If I’m in a positive mindset then this phrase will…
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