DILLIP HANSDAH

"The Power of Writing It Down: A Simple Habit to Unlock Your Brain and Reimagine Your Life" by Allison Fallon. This book explores the transformative power of writing and how it can help us process emotions, gain clarity, and unlock creativity. Fallon argues that writing isn’t just for professional authors—it’s a tool anyone can use to heal, grow, and reimagine their life. 1. Writing Is a Powerful Tool for Self-Discovery At the heart of Fallon’s book is the idea that writing helps us understand ourselves on a deeper level. When we put pen to paper, we uncover hidden thoughts, feelings, and patterns that shape our lives. Writing creates space for introspection and allows us to explore who we are and what we truly want. 2. Clarity Comes From Writing, Not Thinking Fallon emphasizes that we don’t need to have everything figured out before we start writing. In fact, writing is often the process that brings clarity. By letting thoughts flow onto the page without judgment, we begin t...

You’ve done it a hundred times. You call a colleague by the wrong name. You forget an appointment you swore you’d remember. You walk into a room and completely blank on why you’re there. We usually laugh it off with an excuse: "I'm just so tired," or "My mind is elsewhere." But what if these slips weren't just random glitches? What if they were tiny, encrypted messages from a hidden part of your own mind? This is the captivating premise of Sigmund Freud's "Psychopathology of Everyday Life." Reading this book is like being handed a detective's notebook for your own psyche. It argues that our most common mistakes, forgetting names, slips of the tongue, losing objects are rarely accidental. They are, in fact, small rebellions of our unconscious, revealing our true feelings, fears, and desires that our conscious mind is too polite, or too afraid, to express. 4 Human Lessons from the Father of Psychoanalysis: 1. There Are No Accidents: The Freud...

The body remembers what the mind forgets.” Babette Rothschild’s The Body Remembers is a cornerstone text in the study of trauma, bridging neuroscience, psychology, and clinical practice. It addresses one of the most pressing insights of modern trauma research: experiences of overwhelming stress and abuse are not only stored in memory but are held physically in the body, often outside conscious awareness. Rothschild, a psychotherapist with decades of experience, brings clarity to a subject that can easily feel overwhelming. She explains how the nervous system encodes trauma, why symptoms such as flashbacks or dissociation occur, and how healing must involve more than talking through the past. Lessons from The Body Remembers 1. Trauma is stored in the nervous system Trauma imprints itself not only on memory but also on the body’s physiological responses. Elevated heart rate, hypervigilance, and sudden panic are signs of a nervous system stuck in survival mode. Understanding this helps ex...