I’ve always hated video calls. Could it be because I’m extremely conscious about how I look?
—Anamika, Via Instagram
It could be. And I am sure you would be experiencing the repercussions of not loving yourself in other spheres of your life, not willing to come on video calls being an evident one. I know it’s tough and can completely relate to it, but it’s not an impossible task to appreciate your own self. Please work towards having positive thoughts towards your own self. Your relationship with yourself is long to last forever, let’s start building a harmonious one.
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My mother, now 75, craves attention by feigning ill health, and it disrupts my life. I am the only child. What can I do?
—DL, Via email
Enjoy the feeling of being wanted. She craves love. It’s an emotion that makes us human. Don’t run away from it. I bet she felt the same too when you were a kid. Being rewarded and disrupted in equal measures with your kiddy presence. I guess she stuck around, and I feel so should you.
After becoming a poster girl of strength with her fight against cancer, author Tahira Kashyap Khurrana’s straight-speaking has inspired many
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