Pragati Siddhanti, an expat living in Basel, Switzerland talks about motherhood, travel and building the career while being a desi at heart.
Author: Ann Grandchamp, Mental Health Editor One of the most common issues my clients deal with is the feeling of overwhelmed. And what are overwhelmed people really really good at (re)producing? Complexity. The art of complexification is to make things complicated when they are actually quite simple. They don't do it on purpose, of course. [...]
Back to school! Whether you school-school, homeschool or online school, there is a good chance that the young people in your life have recently started or are about to a fresh new academic year. Nearly 2 years later (I know) the jury is still out on how the pandemic is affecting our children. Older children [...]
Author: Ann Grandchamp, Mental Health Editor Let me demonstrate to you that mental health professionals don't always have it worked out and together. Ever since coming back to Switzerland in 2017, we've chosen to stay home and enjoy the lakeside and go away by the sea in October when the weather is starting to get [...]
Author: Ann Grandchamp, Mental Health Editor Do you find yourself wondering what is the worst thing that could happen? Do you worry about the future a lot? Do you get stressed and anxious about future events? Do you tend to catastrophise? This is all unconscious of course - you're not doing it on purpose. But [...]
I am an only child. I like to think that I defy the stereotypes that go hand in hand with only children but here we are. My mother was an only child too. My father is the eldest of six. My husband is the eldest of two. My mother-in-law is the youngest of nine while [...]
