Author: mutedhealing
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Life in a Box: How Homebound Is a Stark Mirror to Systemic Exclusion
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With Muted Healing being a mission to create safety in the world – I get to enjoy the vagueness and generalisability of that statement. I needn’t box myself into one service or product, because safety should be infused into everything right? But what if your entire life was reduced to one box, where that box…
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The Volume We Inherit: Brown Girl Noise and the Psychology of Silencing
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“The most dangerous poison of all, is the one that keeps us quiet” Kaya Uppal / Writer – Brown Girl Noise The Play: Reclaiming the Script Sometimes the universe speaks in clusters. Fresh from analysing Homebound‘s exploration of systemic categorisation, I found myself at Riverside Studio watching Brown Girl Noise—a play that tackles the same…
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Why do we need South Asian Heritage Month?
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A personal journey from resistance to recognition This blog takes you through my personal journey with self-hating my identity, and how my career and personal experiences took me into the one thing I tried to avoid the most! We’re hosting several events this month to commemorate South Asian Heritage Month. Be sure to follow our…
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Five years of Muted Healing: Growth, Community, and What’s Next
“I just wanted to thank you again for bringing it to my attention that, I HAVE come so far, and I SHOULD be celebrating myself; but also the fact that Muted Healing has been quietly in the background of my life, so thank you for that” Anonymous Attendee / First client of Muted Healing in…
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Rekindling the Flame: My Journey Through Activist Burnout
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One of the key ways that I knew something was wrong with me, was my inability to feel anything for Palestine. It’s not that I didn’t want to. I didn’t swap sides and nor did I suddenly become neo-liberal, self-care queen and decide to just ‘focus on myself’ – it’s like something switched off inside…
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Bhaijaan: Wrestling with Dreams & Reality
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As my first theatre review for Screening Minds – (a series exploring psychosocial themes in media) – I should acknowledge my biases upfront. I’m an absolute sucker for authentic portrayals of male friendship – these relationships fascinate me both personally and professionally. Set in Ilford, Bhaijaan follows 15-year-old best friends Khafi and Zain as they…
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Mismatched: A Coming-of-Age Story That Transcends Dating Apps
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After I finished watching Schitt’s Creek, I entered a state of mourning (no for real), and contrary to popular belief, I actually don’t watch a lot of T.V- don’t really have the time to, I struggle to sit still, and maybe it’s a good thing because I get so invested into the characters. So when…
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Yeh Jawaani Hai Dewaani… Phir Se!
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Screening Minds – Millenial Nostalgia with the re-release of YJHD I’m gonna try something different and go for a chatty-patty approach in a blog and then do a TLDR (‘Too Long Didn’t Read’ for my millennials/boomers out there) on the IG post. So yes, a long post incoming, but for the YJHD stans- I think…
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Unveiling the Virtues: 24 in ’24- A Journey of Self-Discovery
In this series, I’ll be going through the 24 VIA character strengths, applied…to ME!
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Hygge Haven
In this blog, we’ll explore the numerous benefits of participating in online reading clubs during the hygge season of autumn and winter.
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Empowering Men: The Role of Positive Psychology in Online Safe Spaces
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In this blog post, we’ll explore why online safe spaces are crucial for men’s mental health and well-being and how our new 4 week programme, Hygge Homies can help.
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Can you ‘capture’ happiness?
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This blog explores how three of my favourite things; the outdoors, cameras, and positive psychology, come together for healing intervention that’s sure to leave you feeling rejuvenated!
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Basking
That’s it. That’s the title. Short and succinct. Like the summers here in the UK. It feels like every year it’s getting shorter and shorter :(. A few days of glorious mornings with gentle sun-kissed rays kissing our faces and having us wake up like we’re the main character in a ‘feel-good’ movie when she’s…
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Healing- Don’t Sweat It! (no, actually do…)
When I was in my ‘Eat Pray Love’ era (okay I’ve never seen the movie but my brother always jibes this about me whenever I go on a solo trip, or take myself out to a café for a reading date), I used a range of different services in the healing journey. One of those,…
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When you become art…
2 years ago, I went to the immersive Van Gogh exhibition in London and I fell in love with his work, Starry Night, and the idea of being enveloped in art. I felt like it was akin to the escapist elements of a good Netflix show, or cinema, but better – because this type of…
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Baking as a love language to myself and others
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I’ve been baking since I was 14. It was almost my ‘go-to’ choice of gifts. I baked at the end of the academic year for my students. I baked for my friend’s engagement parties. I baked for my brother’s wedding. And then one day, I just stopped. 🙁 Not only was it cumbersome (ugh why…
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Gardening- A Positive Psychology Intervention?
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Guess who got green fingers finally?! Funny story, I went on a date once, maybe back in 2016 and they must have sensed how stressed and ‘in my own head’ I was all the time because she recommended gardening to me as a hobby. After recently learning about the benefits of the outdoors on mental…
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Vision Board Method 3.0
One of the biggest items on my bucket list was to do a tour of India (as much as money and time would allow me). When I was able to complete this in January 2023, I couldn’t help but feel that life was done. Complete. As melancholic as it sounds, there were literally times where…
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Vision Boarding for a better you: v2.0
While the first vision board method worked for me throughout 2020 (yes, even through the unprecedented lockdowns!), I still needed a refreshed way of planning my next goals. Fast forward to 2021. I had laid down the foundations of habit tracking and starting with the end in mind. I had my big annual goals, filtering…
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A Vision Board that Works For You: Method 1
You might be here because you’ve tried setting goals for yourself but found that getting that first step in place has always been a challenge. Over time, those goals start deflating, before you convince yourself that the passion has burned out too. Yet that desire to do something different from the norm, the desire to…
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Learning at Work Week: Top Tips for Maximising Learning and Development Opportunities for Employees
We’ve all been there. It’s either too early in the morning, or a middle of the day slump, or a 5pm twilight session. The coffee’s cold, or “this could easily have been put in an email”. There’s always something that someone will be complaining about. So how do you put on a staff development programme…
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Coaching: A Promising Tool for Mental Health Support
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Why hiring a coach could be the best thing for wellbeing (whether it’s personal or professional!)
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National Children’s Day UK: Why Celebrating Our Inner Child Matters
A day dedicated to raising awareness about children’s wellbeing and happiness. So what about the child that lives in all of us as adults? How can we honour our inner child through coaching?
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Deaf awareness at work
Deaf Awareness Week is an annual event that aims to raise awareness about the deaf community and their needs. It’s an opportunity to promote inclusive practices in the workplace, ensuring that deaf individuals feel valued and supported. This year the theme is deaf inclusion and my role as your positive psychology coaching consultant is to…
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Coaching for Maternal Mental Health
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Maternal Mental Health Day raises awareness about the challenges that women face when dealing with mental health issues during pregnancy, all the way until after childbirth. The theme this year is ‘together in a changing world’ – and in 2023, we’re all talking about equality, diversity, and inclusivity. So let me preface this article by…
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Part 3/3: Coaching- to quit or not to quit…
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We made it to the final instalment of my ramblings about why I’m doubting coaching after graduating from a coaching Masters! Thanks for staying with me so far, the response has been greater than I expected with so many fellow coaches sharing sentiments, kind words, and just helping each other to realise that coaching (by…
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Part 2/3 – Why I’m doubting coaching after graduating from a coaching Masters
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in CoachingPart 2/3- Can you be a brown coach? I’m curious to know, when somebody asks you what you do (for a living), are you able to answer this without hesitation? In my past life, it was easy enough to say “I’m a teacher”, it’s a common role around the world. Since making the career change…
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Part 1/3 Why I’m doubting coaching after graduating from a coaching Masters
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Part 1/3 – When your personal stuff weighs down your professional confidence I was sat in my graduation ceremony, gown-clad, the rim of the mortar board pressing against my forehead and riling up a headache as I looked around at the buzz of the room. So many of my peers had brought their friends and…
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Are you a sky lover? You might be a Skychologist!
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Are you a sky lover? You might be a Skychologist! Okay I tried really hard for a cheeky pun there but Skychology is really a thing! Paul Conway of Successful Humans describes this ‘punny’ word as a field of research in improving your physical and mental wellbeing. The theory is underpinned by Positive Psychology, and Conway’s own…