Healing

Building Resilience from Memories
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By creating a safe space to discuss these issues [of sexual abuse] and acknowledging these experiences, we can find a way to address the root cause and move forward in our healing process.

By Elsa Marie D'Silva
April 2, 2018
Building Resilience from Memories
Bodies in Motion: Dance Therapy as Mode of Healing and Empowerment
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The dance therapy project therefore squarely locates itself as a supplement to economic skill building and psychological counselling, in developing a holistic sense of self among the women beneficiaries of the project.

By Raili Roy
September 4, 2018
Bodies in Motion: Dance Therapy as Mode of Healing and Empowerment
WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT SELF-CARE AND WELLBEING AS A SEXUALITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
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Wellbeing and sexuality for me therefore entailed thinking through and dealing with violence, understanding and acknowledging it as not the entirety of one’s experience, and going through a process of healing.

By Arpita Das
January 4, 2021
WHAT I LEARNED ABOUT SELF-CARE AND WELLBEING AS A SEXUALITY RIGHTS ACTIVIST
On Sexuality, Representation, and Being a Lonely Brown Girl
The cover image of the article with the typography, in white, 'On Sexuality, Representation, and Being a Lonely Brown Girl' and under it in smaller font: September 12, 2017 / Nisha Eswaran' The background is a fade-effect illustration of a brown woman wearing a white-lilac top with black hair open. She is standing in a field of sunflowers, yellow and brown with green leaves and brown-black mountains far back. The woman's face has been made without any features.

I long for much more than a greater representation of brown women. I long for a complete overhaul of the racial, gendered, and economic systems that structure our suffering.

But I also long for representation of all people, including brown women, who are in love, who are loveable, and who are — in the absence of love — lonely.

By Curated Content
June 15, 2021
On Sexuality, Representation, and Being a Lonely Brown Girl
Editorial – Mental Health and Sexuality
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Mental health, much like physical health, is a state of wellbeing and not just the absence of disease or infirmity. Because each of us is unique, with our own particular temperaments, quirks and histories, we may react to situations differently. However, our wellbeing is affected not only by our individual traits but also by social, cultural and other systemic factors.
By TARSHI
September 19, 2022
Editorial – Mental Health and Sexuality
Issue in focus
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Companions take many forms. Using the word very loosely here, a companion is anyone the self is connected to, anywhere, at any point in time, from a family member, to a stranger on a train. 

By Shikha Aleya
November 15, 2022
Issue in focus
Editorial – Connections and Sexuality
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Questions, questions and inevitably more questions! That seems to be the human condition when it comes to connections, especially our connections with other people. It’s complicated, right?

By TARSHI
November 15, 2022
Editorial – Connections and Sexuality