Tag: mental-health

• Why You Never Feel Like You Have Enough??

  “You can have anything you want in your life; you just can’t have everything you want!!” Not a long time ago, Indian middle-class households survived on the basic rule of using everything to the fullest!! We grew up sharing things like clothes, books among siblings, cousins and our dadi-nanis taught us to utilize everything in…

  Manasi Sardesai

  August 24, 2026

  #psychology

  #dopaminerush, #enoughmindset, #mentalhealth, #peacefulmind, #psychology, mental-health, mindfulness, wellness

• The Teenage Brain: What’s going on in there??

  “The scariest part of raising teenagers is remembering the stupid things you did as a teenager.” From invading my privacy to guarding his own, from asking for my opinion on silly things to declaring, “oh Mom, you won’t understand…!!”, from being perfectly predictable to throwing completely unpredictable tantrums……. You guessed it right!! I am mom…

  Manasi Sardesai

  August 17, 2026

  #parenting

  #adolescentbrain, #adolescentparenting, #happyparenthappychild, #happyparenting, #neuroplasticity, #parentchildrelationship, #parenting, #psychology, #teenageparenting, mental-health, mindfulness, neuroscience

• Decoding Mental Wellness: What it really means to you?

  “Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.“ In this age when technology has encroached our lives and AI is ready to take it to another level, each one of us is constantly being bombarded with lots and lots of information. And even if we are hesitant to accept, this information overload is draining us…

  Manasi Sardesai

  August 4, 2026

  Self-Improvement

  #happiness, #healthymind, #mentalhealth, #mentalhealthawareness, #mentalwellness, #peacefulmind, #psychology, #resilience, mental-health, mindfulness, self-care, wellness

• Bursting the Myth of the Perfect Parent: Let’s be good enough!!

  There is no way to be a perfect parent, yet many ways to be a good one!! We all have been in situations of emotional meltdown numerous times during our parental journey. Be it an intense reaction to a silly tantrum of our toddler or a heated argument with our teenager over breaking the boundaries,…

  Manasi Sardesai

  July 30, 2026

  #parenting

  #goodenoughparent, #happiness, #happychildrenhappyparents, #parenting, #perfectparentmyth, children, family, life, mental-health

• Understanding Psychology: A Path to Better Mental Health

  “Taking care of your mind is not selfish, it’s essential!!“ There has always been a taboo about mental health. Accepting that I am having some problem in my life which is affecting my mental health takes a lot of courage. There is a general tendency of brushing it off as minor or insignificant. But sometimes,…

  Manasi Sardesai

  June 15, 2026

  #psychology

  #anxiety, #emotions, #healthymind, #mentalhealth, #mentalhealthawareness, #psychology, health, mental-health, philosophy

• Healthy Screen Habits for Preschoolers

  “It’s not good enough for us to have generations of kids that look forward to a better version of cell phone with a video in it. They need to look forward to exploration!!“ A lot has been already spoken about the use or rather overuse of smartphones across all generations, so what’s new about this…

  Manasi Sardesai

  March 9, 2026

  #parenting

  #family, #mentalhealthawareness, #parenting, #peacefulmind, #screenaddiction, #screentime, #screenuseawareness, #smartphoneuse, #toddlers, children, mental-health, social-media, technology

• Understanding Learned Helplessness

  “When your will power is gone, you are helpless!!” At some point or the other in our life, we have experienced a feeling of helplessness wherein we feel powerless and hopeless about changing a particular negative situation by doing something. But this is usually a temporary phase, and we come out of it after some…

  Manasi Sardesai

  February 18, 2026

  Self-Improvement

  #anxiety, #depression, #helplessness, #learnedhelplessness, #mentalhealth, #psychology, #thoughts, health, mental-health

• The ‘Positive Discipline’ Approach to Parenting

  Children do better when they feel better! Jane Nelsen In the last post, I had discussed what exactly it means to learn parenting and why there is a need to learn parenting in this age. This post is in continuation to the same topic. As I am really interested in learning about the growth and…

  Manasi Sardesai

  September 5, 2025

  #parenting

  #emotions, #happychildrenhappyparents, #healthymind, #parenting, #parentingstyles, #positivediscipline, #psychology, children, family, mental-health

• Do we really need to “learn” parenting??

  Behind every child who believes in themselves is a parent who believed in them first!! In this age of information overload where we are everyday bombarded with lots of information about everything right from what to eat, what to wear, how to behave, so on and so forth, we are mostly confused about even those…

  Manasi Sardesai

  August 16, 2025

  #parenting

  #awareness, #emotions, #happyparenting, #parentchildrelationship, #parenting, #psychology, children, family, life, mental-health

• Parenting of the tech savvy generation!!

  Technology is a useful servant but a dangerous master!! Christian Louise Lange Parenting has always been a challenging task after all our kids don’t come with a user manual, isn’t it?? Earlier, children were raised in a community comprising of joint family, extended family members, neighbours, etc. Therefore, children had multiple options for emotional support,…

  Manasi Sardesai

  July 1, 2025

  #parenting

  #genz, #healthymind, #internet, #mentalhealth, #parenting, #tehsavygeneration, children, mental-health, responsibleinternetuse, social-media, technology