Category: healing
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From Rented Roofs to Finally Belonging
The Long Walk Home Ever since I can remember, we’ve lived like tenants of our own lives, shifting from house to house before any place could settle into a home. Packers and movers became recurring characters in my childhood, but the packing was always Amma’s job as they only did the moving. Sometimes my grandparents…
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mosaic of selves
here’s the podcast version (i prefer that you read this one)- sometimes i wonder how many versions of me are walking around in other people’s minds. each person who knows me carries a different fragment. some see crumbs of a single dimension of me. others have glimpsed my deepest vulnerabilities. maybe the truest version of…
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A Decade and a Half: My 15-Year Journey to Confront My Father Who Walked Away
here’s the podcast version~ My parents separated when I was 8. Getting my custody was a cakewalk for my mother since my father never even showed up for the divorce. This is a letter I wrote to my alcoholic father in 2023 but never sent. I haven’t edited it to suit my style now, it’s…
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The Lost Art of Solitude: My Guide on Becoming Your Own Company
here’s the podcast version – Chapter 1 : The Early Days As a child, I used to enjoy my own company a lot. I had plenty of activities to pass time, ranging from talking to myself to making DIY art projects, playing dress-up, taking self-portraits, doing a 10-minute ab challenge, jamming to songs loudly, and…
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things i wish i could tell my teenage self
Hey teenage Bhadra,Here is YA Bhadra talking with her newly discovered limited wisdom about the world, that she mandates you know. (What she doesn’t know yet is that middle-aged Bhadra is chuckling at her for thinking she understands life.) There’s more that I have to tell you, but I am running out of the time…
By Bhadra 