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Dear mammas,let us pause for a moment and appreciate how far we have come in this journey of motherhood?Give me a YES if you agree?
✨How about we start celebrating our own firsts and victorious milestones just as we do for our wonderful babies? We click our own pictures, decorate them on canva as a milestone and save it in our folder!♥️✨💪

⭐⭐Let us create more frequent celebratory pauses to acknowledge and appreciate our hard work that goes in raising these tiny humans?

🌈This idea of celebrating myself as a mamma came to me when I felt utterly drained in one of those early months postpartum with all the “mom responsibilities”.When we made it to the half birthday milestone, I thought “Wow! We made it this far and that calls for a celebration! We did it,in covid times,with barely any support.”

🙌Today, I’m appreciating myself for the curious book reader and an animal enthusiast that my daughter is becoming,thanks to me exposing books,talking and sharing about animals to her from her early days.Share with me👇,which milestone are you celebrating today as a mamma?........
I'm Aakriti Malik,a licensed Clinical Psychologist, follow for empowering motherhood content.
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Best wishes,
Aakriti😊✨✨

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Best,
Aakriti

Join and follow to learn more about the Inner Critic in this series. Today we discuss the many different types of Inner Critics as shared by Internal Family Systems therapist Jay Earley.
When I first encountered the different types the information was deeply revealing and enriching for me. To identify which Inner Critic manifests itself when can be extremely helpful.
Which Inner Critic of yours do you hear more often?
Stay tuned,we have more posts coming on this soon....
⚠️ All posts are for educational purposes and are not a replacement for the work we do in psychotherapy.

Unsure what the Inner Critic is all about.Read this post and stay tuned to to know more...
Some of us here maybe quite familiar with our inner voice,others might even wonder why is my inner voice always so critical?
More commonly known as the Inner Critic, recognizing what it does and when the voice sparks up can be so essential for us to connect, understands and know ourselves better.
My Inner Critic has some perfectionist tendencies and often makes me feel guilty for not meeting my "perfect ideal" at times.
➡️Tell me when does your Inner Critic sparks up and how does it makes you feel?
With Grace,
Aakriti
⚠️Posts here are for information purposes only and in no way a replacement of actual work in psychotherapy.

Raise your hand ✋if you agree to what Gabor Mate says: Trauma is NOT what happened to you, but what happened INSIDE of you as a result of what happened to you.Read it again and let that sink in.
➡️According to Gabor Mate,trauma doesn't mean that something terrible needs to happen to us essentially for us to be wounded.
➡️The simple act of our caregivers/parents being unable to offer us what we needed as children simply because of them being unconscious or struck in their own issues,is reason enough for us to feel traumatized. In other words,the lack of the capacity of parents to see,appreciate and hear the child for who s/he is, is reason enough for the child to feel traumatized.
➡️Trauma need not always involve someone being physically/emotionally/sexually abused.
I'd love to hear your thoughts, in the comments on trauma and how does this quote by Gabor Mate connects with you?
⚠️all posts on are solely for awareness purposes and in no way can replace psychotherapy.

presents the Slow-motion Series, a series dedicated to taking the time to savour,enjoy,attend,intend, acknowledge,recognize, connect and appreciate the many pauses we take and/or intend to take( but often skip or ignore in the rigmarole of busy life).
Here's to-
The pauses
The silences
The time-offs and the time-aways
The quiet reflections
The sombre introspections
The connections
Within
Weaving together of
Our past,present and future
Here's to mindfully
Slowing down
Resting and resisting
The pressure
The chatter
That encourages and pushes
Us to constantly
Run
How about this time
We all sit
In a circle around a campfire
Gazing into the comfort of presence
Welcome....to the Slow Series
Where life is just as you wished♥️.
In a culture that glamorizes running, let's pause,breathe and go slow,for no one ever said that fast is everything.
So good to be back,mindfulllyme fam:) how have you all been?
Love,
Aakriti✨

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In recognition of making mental health awareness and psychotherapy tools accessible to one and all, I'd love to invite you to my monthly newsletters (starting Dec 2021!) which shall focus on educational resources, skills and discussions for both clients and young psychologists in making.

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As therapists seeing clients,dealing with mental health difficulties is a job with great response-ability.
Seeing clients in a state of crisis, more so, a pandemic,is nothing short of a feat.
With great response-ability comes greater capacity to be able to draw boundaries,especially when absolutely necessary.
This comes in the form of pausing when our cups are either too full or feel broken or need their own healing and grieving before we gather our inner strength to resume our work with clients.
The other day I received a deeply saddening news of losing my used to be therapist to COVID-19 back in India.The initial reaction was shock and denial,followed by a burst of tears in the early morning hours and a day filled with existential questions around life's unfairness(because she was so young),value of faith and hope (which then felt empty and hollow words).On my way to work I questioned the irony of clients in the hospital wanting to die and end their life,on one end,and people back in Delhi,desperately trying to stay alive for themselves and their loved ones.
With all this in my heart and mind,I decided to take a pause and told my client I wasn't feeling well (as was true) and requested for a reschedule of our session.I knew that was the right decision to take,for how could I open a space which was deeply filled with grief and the many emotions ripe in their perplexities and be available for my client.
♥️🙏And so,Dear Therapists, this post is a reminder that we are human,fallible and no matter how highly our clients think of us,ethically and personally,it is our response-ability to sustain ourselves and the therapist-client relationship with our clients in the long run.If doing so means taking a short break to revive,then be it.

P.S: I haven't come across the word therapist sustainability in professional literature.Views on this post come from a personal and/or professional experience.

⚠️Posts on this page are not a replacement for actual psychotherapeutic work.

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How many of you have felt this way in your sessions with your therapist?or even that everything was in order for "all and everyone" around you except for you? That it was okay for your loved one to see a therapist BUT not for you?
It's interesting how we have different scales to measure our worth and wellbeing versus others, isn't it? In my work with this client,who had attempted a lethal overdose,I understood that this young boy had been carrying heavy weight of not living up to his parent's expectations,of feeling that he had "failed everything in life so far" (even though the story was much different) and that he was upto no good in future.According to him, all the symptoms he showed of depression were what he "thought" what he was.As we worked through the state of mind, emotions, thoughts and behavior in depression and how we could embrace the presence of a critical self,this boy gained the confidence to seek future therapy.
Invitation for reflection:
♥️ Think about what led you to have unfair scales of comparing your worth versus others?
♥️What blocks you from offering loving kindness to yourself and not to others?
♥️What makes seeking help appear "weak" for you?
♥️Does everyone who appears "well" has their life sorted and "perfect"?
With Grace,
Aakriti
⚠️All posts on this page are for educational and reflective purposes. They are not a substitute for actual psychotherapeutic work.