Self-Care With Shaki

Everyone has Mental Health. We talk as if mental health is needed only when people are depressed or sad. But, no mental health is essential to everyone every day. Just like you have physical health, you have mental health also. First, you need to clear in what mental health is to promote it or follow it. I have seen and worked in companies where so much importance is given to physical health. For example, the company that I worked for has a "Step - count" challenge where the person who has walked the highest steps in a day will be rewarded with gift vouchers. Mostly all the MNCs have Marathons and 10k, 20k running challenge. Also, every company has a sports team. I have been there done that. When it is good and healthy to give importance to employee's physical health; most companies miss out on the need to give importance to the employee's mental health. There is so little or no activities or programs that are conducted for Mental Wellness. I think no...

Freedom is a powerful word which has millions of perspective. In this blog, I am not going to give any tips or advice to follow to achieve freedom. I am just going to vent my heart out of what freedom means to me. And, I also feel that this is the most important topic to talk out. Since we are all working, striving, running nonstop towards our goals just to attain freedom in every aspect. For some people freedom means being financially independent, for some, it means free from toxic relationships or free from societies standards or to move even higher, freedom can be just freeing yourself from your own ego. India is a democratic nation that is free of enslavement. It means that we have the freedom of speech, the right to question, we have the choice to choose what we wear, what we speak and what we do. Yes, we are free from the British. We are no longer the slaves of the white men. At the time, when we were under the oppression of British rule, Freedom meant Indians ruling Ind...