Staying Emotionally Connected with your Spouse During COVID-19 Dr. Najmun Riyaz It has been almost a year since the beginning of the pandemic. Besides affecting our own emotional wellbeing, our jobs, our schools, our kids, it has also caused a lot of stress on our...
Power of Listening: The First Lesson Psychiatry Taught Me Dr. Najmun Riyaz I thought of myself as being relatively patient and a good listener by nature. But when it came to my professional life, I didn’t think listening was one of the skills needed to...
Gratitude: An Antidote to Perfectionism Dr. Najmun Riyaz My youngest son, born 6 weeks premature, developed some school related anxiety when he started the third grade. Around that age, children enter a phase of development where they becoming less egocentric and more aware of their...
Post-Traumatic Growth: My Story Dr. Najmun Riyaz [CONTENT WARNING: warfare, assault] I was raised by middle class parents in the disputed land of Jammu and Kashmir, a nation under occupation by the Indian Government. Like my motherland, I too felt a strong urge to find...