Pooja Priyamvada
@pooja
Pooja Priyamvada is an author, columnist, translator, online content & Social Media consultant and poet. Currently she is Academic Director at International Institute of Mass Media (IIMM) Delhi. An awarded bi-lingual blogger she is a trained psychological/mental health first aider, corporate emotional wellness trainer, mindfulness & grief facilitator, reflective listener, mental health researcher and suicide prevention activist. She has been associated and published at reputed national & global portals, anthologies and journals. She is a course facilitator of an online course- “Leadership & Management in Health” offered by University of Washington. She is a part of the organising team of Kritya International Poetry Festival 2021 and has been actively organising theatre and reading workshops at the National Museum, New Delhi. She has translated Joseph Murphy's The Power of the Subconscious Mind to Aapke Avchetan Mann ki Shakti for Penguin Random House in 2022, A Night in the Hills, a collection of short stories by Manav Kaul published by Westland Books in 2019 and Caregivers' Handbook for Down's Syndrome published by Sangati Foundation in 2021. Her ebooks Mental Health: A Primer and Lessons for Life from Death:Papa & I and translation Land of Ghosts: Iceland are available on Amazon Kindle.
Fibromyalgia is not curable; only manageable
12th May is every year commemorated as Fibromyalgia Awareness Day, and May is Fibromyalgia Awareness Month worldwide.
Self-love during COVID: A 29-point guide
Self-love in times of extreme physical distancing is a must for our mental health and overall wellness. Don’t fall into the trap of believing that self-care or self-love is being selfish. It is not. In fact, in a situation like this, it is the best you can do for yourself and others.
We all need a Self-Care plan for the lock down
As we all struggle through the lockdown/curfew and various other COVID-19 restrictions, it has become essential that we follow some practical and useful advice from reliable sources about our mental health too. To begin with, this loss of routine and control is annoying and can set in anxiety and sometimes depression. We must thus focus…
Tik Tok: The online musical weapon
India accounted for 44%, or 323 million, of 2019’s total TikTok app downloads. Social media, especially in their app format, is quite addictive and gives a dopamine kick to the brain by creating the illusion of being famous, having friends, and youngsters measure their worth by the number of likes and comments on their online presence. The…
Mental health crisis amidst Delhi’s protests and violence
Delhi witnessed unprecedented violence since 24 February 2020. Across the world, political protests and violence related to social unrest is a new reality. In India, ever since 11 December 2019, there has been an ongoing social movement against a new Citizenship Amendment law. Before that, the society was outraging against the various incidents of sexual violence against…
Modern parenting and the newer values children need
I became a parent at the end of 2008, so it has been a little more than a decade on this roller-coaster as they say. Parenting in this new millennium is certainly not what it looked like before this. There were no mobile phones in our homes and relationships, there was no online existence sometimes…
How do we deal with child sexual abuse
Recently Facebook and all social media were abuzz about child sexual abuse allegations on famous Hindi poet Nagarjun. The lady Gungun Thanvi in her thirties recently narrated the abuse that happened to her when she was merely seven years old in a Facebook post that was later found removed or hidden. The social media is abuzz with…
Mental health around New Year
January and the last week of December are often considered one of the most stressful periods of the year for several reasons. It is that time of the year again, from our TV screens to public spaces, there is festival cheer. New Year decorations everywhere, announcements of parties and year-enders, and winter vacations rule on…
No woman is safe till all women are
Living in India as one reads the news every day invariably, one gets exposed to the sexual violence epidemic. I have stopped subscribing to newspapers for this very reason. I don’t watch news channels except for specially curated programs. But since my work is on social media, I do get exposed to so much news about…
Mr. India needs to start talking about invisible disability
Look at my pictures, meet me, and if I say I have a disability, you wouldn’t believe me. Sometimes I won’t reciprocate to your smile with a smile, and you might be quick to label me as snooty without knowing that I can’t often smile because I have myofascial pain. Some days my brain fog…
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