bhavkotecha

You might not describe yourself as someone who is struggling. In fact, you might take pride in showing others you have your sh#& together. From the outside, things may look relatively steady. You’re managing work, keeping up with responsibilities, showing up for the people around you. On paper, everything might even look… fine. And yet, underneath, there’s a constant sense of pressure and unease. It's relentless. Your mind doesn’t quite switch off when you need it to. Small things feel bigger...

As a therapist who has navigated both the corporate world and the therapeutic space, I’ve often reflected on the layers people carry into the rooms they enter — layers that are shaped by culture, family, community, lived experience and more. We don’t arrive into therapy with a set of malleable principles that can be easily erased and reformed. We arrive as people formed by a complex interplay of values, beliefs, expectations, and unspoken rules — many of which are deeply cultural and rooted...

You may not think of yourself as someone who has experienced trauma. Your life, on the surface, may look stable. You’ve built something for yourself, you manage responsibilities, and you’ve found ways to keep going. And yet, there may be moments that feel harder to explain. Perhaps you notice strong reactions that seem to come “out of nowhere”. Or patterns in relationships that keep repeating.Or a persistent sense of pressure, responsibility, or needing to get things right. Sometimes, these...