by Laila Podetti | Mar 9, 2026 | Counselling & Theraputic Relationship
There’s a moment in every great documentary that makes the viewer hold their breath. It’s not the big explosion or the dramatic reveal. It’s the moment when someone on screen, for the first time, feels truly seen. Their shoulders drop. Their voice...
by Laila Podetti | Mar 9, 2026 | Personality, Development & Social Life
Here’s a question that keeps me up at night: How do we become who we are? Not the short answer, “genes and environment.” I mean the real, messy, beautiful, confusing process. The moment a baby looks at their mother and smiles for the first time. The...
by Laila Podetti | Mar 9, 2026 | The Brain, Cognition & Neuropsychology
By Maryam El Banziki I want you to meet someone. His name is Elliot. In the 1980s, Elliot was a successful businessman, a good husband, a father. Then a brain tumour changed everything. Surgeons removed the tumour, along with part of his frontal lobe. After the...
by Laila Podetti | Mar 9, 2026 | Psychological Therapies
I want you to imagine something. You’re sitting in a room with a stranger. The room is quiet, maybe too quiet. There’s a box of tissues on a small table, placed there intentionally, because someone knew that people cry in this room. The stranger across...
by Laila Podetti | Mar 9, 2026 | Mental Health, Society & Behaviour Change
I want you to imagine two people. The first person is struggling. They can’t get out of bed. Their thoughts are a loop of self-criticism. They’ve stopped answering calls from friends. They’re barely eating. If you met them, you might think: This...
