relationships
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Presence Vs Present: The Valentine’s Day Gift That Actually Changes a Relationship
Every February, love becomes a marketplace. Flowers surge in price. Restaurants sell “experience packages”. Social feeds fill with grand gestures and even grander captions. Somewhere in the middle of all that noise, a quiet anxiety creeps in. Am I doing enough? Will my partner feel loved? Will I be judged if my gift is simple?…
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Feeling Stuck in Life? How Life Coaching Helps Indian Adults Redesign Their 30s and 40s
If you are reading this from Mauritius, you may recognise the particular kind of quiet pressure that sits in the chest after work. The commute is done, the phone is still buzzing, the family needs attention, and your mind keeps whispering the same irritating question: Is this it? That question is usually followed by guilt,…
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Loneliness Makes You Choose People You Wouldn’t Choose Otherwise
I have watched it happen in coaching rooms and cafés, and in the quiet glow of late-night messaging. A smart, discerning person meets someone who is simply available. Not kind. Not steady. Just there. And in a season of loneliness, “there” can look like “destiny”. This is the heart of loneliness relationship choices. Loneliness is…
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Love as compliance: Unlearning the childhood rule that still runs your relationships
Love as compliance is a particular kind of adulthood where you can read the room like a weather report. You sense a sigh from across the table, detect a pause on a phone call, and immediately begin the ancient ritual: correcting yourself before anyone asks. In coaching rooms, I meet them every week. High-functioning, high-capacity,…
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Another Self Netflix Series: A Life Coach’s Take on Zaman, Trauma, and the Olive Tree Within
I rarely watch a series and immediately want to debrief it like a coaching session. The Another Self Netflix series (Turkish title: Zeytin Ağacı, “Olive Tree”) did that to me. Three friends from Istanbul travel to Ayvalık, hoping a change of scenery will soften what life has hardened. It premiered on Netflix on 28 July…
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Gender-Equal Justice in Mauritius: What World Religion Day Made Me See
I walked into the World Religion Day gathering today with the cautious curiosity I reserve for anything that uses a phrase like “reconceptualising justice”. It can sound like a conference room trying to sound like a conscience. The event was organised by the Bahá’í community, and the theme was quietly daring: “Reconceptualising Justice for a…
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Stop Asking “How Are You?” It’s the Loneliest Question We Still Use
I have spent years in coaching rooms, watching people arrive with polished smiles and heavy hearts, and I keep noticing the same pattern when Stop Asking “How Are You?” It’s the Loneliest Question We Still Use becomes the quiet truth beneath our everyday greetings. I have also met them outside, in cafés, corridors, at weddings,…
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When “Too Much Love” Is Actually a Wound: Understanding Obsession in Relationships
Some people show overloving behaviour like they’re trying to keep a candle alive in a storm. They text a lot, check in constantly, remember tiny details you forgot you ever shared. Their care can feel like warmth, until it starts to feel like weight. And somewhere between “Aww” and “Arrey yaar”, you begin wondering if…
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The Psychology of Revenge Sex: Power, Pain, and the Lie That It Heals
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The Game of Reactions: It’s Your Reactions That Define Your Day
I have coached people who earn seven figures and people who are rebuilding their lives from scratch. Strangely, the same small villain shows up in both stories: the game of reactions, where an unexamined reaction quietly takes the driver’s seat and starts steering the day. Not the event. Not the traffic. Not the colleague’s tone.…