🏆 Best Executive Coach in Asia 2026 (Asia Business Outlook) • The Times of India columnist • 570+ Google reviews ✨
Psychology, Leadership & Coaching Insights
Essays on psychology, leadership, coaching, work and human behaviour, exploring what sits beneath the choices we make, the relationships we build and the lives we lead.
-
Why Do I Fall for Emotionally Unavailable People? 5 Reasons the Pattern Repeats
Why do I fall for emotionally unavailable people? Dr Krishna Athal on the five psychological reasons the pattern repeats, from attachment templates to the dopamine of uncertainty, the half-open door, and why the calm person is not boring.
-
Who Are Bigg Nerds? The Men Behind the Technical Player
Bigg Nerds turned the man who takes casual games too seriously into one of Instagram’s most loved characters. A review of the trio behind @bigg_nerds, and the psychology that makes the Technical Player impossible not to recognise.
-
World Suicide Prevention Day 2026: How to Start the Conversation
World Suicide Prevention Day falls on 10 September, in the final year of the theme Changing the Narrative on Suicide. Dr Krishna Athal on why the conversation never starts in our homes, the achievement dialect, and how to begin one that could save a life.
-
Diwali 2026: How to Light a Lamp in a Year Like This
Diwali 2026 falls on Sunday 8 November, at the end of one of the heaviest news years in recent memory. A compassionate, practical guide to lighting your lamps when the world genuinely needs them, including the one practice I am asking of everyone: the second diya.
-
How to Let Go of the Past: The Psychology of Finally Putting It Down
The mind keeps unfinished business open, and the body pays for it daily. Dr Krishna Athal explains why the past refuses to stay behind you, and the four moves of the Open Hand Method that finally loosen its grip.
-
Pickleball in Mauritius: The Making of an Indian Ocean Hub
Pickleball in Mauritius is moving from private-club curiosity to national ambition. Inside the psychology of the sport, the three-layer ecosystem now being discussed, and my recommendations for making this island the Indian Ocean’s pickleball hub.
-
How Do You Know If You Need a Life Coach?
Most people who ask whether they need a life coach are not in crisis. They are capable and quietly stuck. Here are five honest signs coaching would be worth your time, and the situations where it is not the right answer.
-
Krishna Janmashtami 2026: What Kamsa Teaches Every Leader
Krishna Janmashtami 2026 falls on Friday 4 September. Beyond the date and the midnight puja, Dr Krishna Athal reads the birth story as a study of leadership under threat: why Kamsa built the prison that became a birthplace, the Kamsa reflex, and what Yashoda teaches about raising what will outgrow you.
-
How to Stop Overthinking: Notes From a Live Workshop
A report from inside my live workshop on the psychology of overthinking: the rumination tax, why the mind loops, the Still Point Method, and the sentence that stopped the room.
-
How to Know If You Love Someone: What the Feeling Cannot Tell You
The feeling alone cannot tell you whether you love someone. Here is a more reliable instrument: the psychology of limerence, six honest signs, and the Tuesday test.
-
Raksha Bandhan in Modern Society: Why the Thread Matters More Than Ever
Fewer siblings, greater distance and a global loneliness crisis have made Raksha Bandhan more necessary than at any time in its history. Dr Krishna Athal on the assumed bond, what the thread does psychologically, and how to tie it this year so that it holds.
-
What Is Home? Why We Spend Our Lives Looking for It
Home is not a building. It is the state your body enters when it decides it can stop scanning. Dr Krishna Athal on why we search for home without knowing it, the four feelings we are really looking for, and how to build a home if you never quite had one.