It’s been an extremely difficult few years in my family because the dark, forbidden shadow was caste on loved ones, who left us behind. I have had my fair share of grieving and bereavement.


Being a therapist, everyone expects me to be strong and deal with everything with reason and understanding. Sometimes, even the therapist fails to be the ‘calm in the storm’ when it comes to losing a loved one.


So how do I do it? How do I change my mind-set and accelerate my healing? I realise that there is a bigger picture to my healing. If I fail to change the way, I am feeling then I cannot be of help to anyone else. This becomes my
motivation to experiment and use practical techniques that work for me. I will be sharing these in my writing.

I had to use consciously use my knowledge, years of research about ‘death and the soul’ and my expertise to re-programme my mind so that I could feel happy again. Yes, I’ve learnt how to live again, with that extreme void; I’ve learnt how to cry but smile at the same time- thinking of all the great memories we shared with the family that are no longer with us. Besides healing myself, I had to find ways, as a therapist, to help my patients through the hardest times in their lives, that is when death invites itself into their lives.

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