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When your new life doesn’t include the old faces
by Dhruv Thakkar
13 August 2025
Special Edition – From the Co-Founder’s Mind
When I was 15, sitting on my first solo flight from Delhi to Anchorage, I thought:
“Wow. I can’t wait to leave my family and finally live by myself. Experience life. Taste freedom.”
No rules. No nagging. No one asking me if I’ve eaten or when I’ll get back home. Just freedom. Or so I thought.
What I didn’t prepare for was the loneliness that freedom quietly brings along.
Does my partner want me to be their mother?
by Athira Manoj Kumar
06 August 2025
“Why can’t you be more like my mother? She’s always so patient, so understanding.”
As a therapist, I’ve heard many versions of this line over the years; sometimes from men, sometimes from women. It often follows a deep silence. The exact desire varies – strength, softness, sacrifice, warmth – but the underlying feeling expressed is often the same.
‘I want you to love me the way I was loved before or the way I wish I had been’
Where do I put all my grief?
by Sanse Bhatt
30 July 2025
“I hope this grief stays with me because it’s all the unexpressed love that I didn’t get to tell her.”
– Andrew Garfield
In my years of working with people going through grief, I know and have seen that loss isn’t just a one-time event. It touches every part of daily life and feels different every single day after. Grieving clients often tell me they’re surprised by the intensity or duration of their feelings “Shouldn’t I be better by now?” they ask.
But there is no timeline for missing someone, and no single “right” way to adapt. I believe that honoring our own path through grief, not just society’s expectations, is an act of immense courage.
Is growth supposed to look linear?
by Simrit Singh
23 July 2025
A friend messaged me this the other day and it took me a while to answer because this is a very, very common feeling when you first start therapy—even as a therapist.
I asked them for permission to share this because I feel like everyone needs to hear this—not just in the context of therapy, but in life as well.
We imagine self-work as a slow and straight climb upward. But real self-work, the kind that actually propels growth and healing, is like a bag of old, junky wires. We need to untangle old knots, look at what we have, and decide what we need to keep. Similarly, healing involves untangling old knots and breaking patterns, but this process can often look like a spiral. One step forward, two steps inward.
Does your therapist respect you?
by Hiteshree M. Dudani
16 July 2025
A few days ago, I was speaking to a therapist from my team at Moon Minds about scheduling a session with one of her clients. This happened during the conversation.
The client wasn’t there. They would never know. This was a private chat between two professionals. But in that moment, something real happened.
I felt a little embarrassed; I knew their pronouns, too. I just forgot. But mostly, I felt proud.
