Swaroopa Subhash

The skin and psyche are part of a system that regulates and dysregulates as a whole

Psychodermatology is not about the skin affecting the psyche. Or the psyche affecting the skin. It is all about the skin and psyche being part of a system...that regulates and dysregulates as a whole. From our gut health, microbiome and immune system to the metabolica-endocrine mileu of the whole

Psychodermatology

Psychosomatic: It’s Not ‘In Your Head’

Psychosomatic is widely understood as ‘it’s in your head’. I totally disagree. It’s core idea is that ‘the head’ is not separate from the body. It’s beyond a mind-body link. It’s mind-body oneness. What happens in us, happens in our mind and body simultaneously. What we

Psychodermatology

Five Ways In Which Your Skin Affects Your Mind

Psychodermatology is as much about what your skin means to your mind, as it is about your mind impacting your skin. Here are five facets of the lesser known half of Psychodermatology : How your skin affects your mind Better barrier - Less Inflammation

Bottom Up Brain

Move Your Body To Move Your Mind

Moving Your Body Triggers Changes In Your Nervous System Changes your emotions, thoughts and mood.

Bottom Up Brain

Three Easy, Embodied Ways to Contain Difficult Emotions

Feelings can overwhelm. They can be draining. And sometimes, downright scary! Next time, don’t drown in difficult emotions. Experiment with one of these instead: Experience The Emotion In Your Body And Mind Explore the emotion through your bodily sensations. How do you feel it in your body? Where is

Bottom Up Brain

The Bottom-Up Brain Changes The Game of Mental Health

How we perceive and experience our inner and outer worlds; is both Top Down and Bottom Up. Your mind changes your body and vice-versa.

BodyMind

I Strongly Disagree with the Separation of the BodyMind

Why do we not have a term that includes both Mind and Body? Why do we separate them so solidly, everywhere, from casual talks to medical managements?

Psychodermatology

‘Don’t scratch that Itch’

I used to tell this to my patients, friends, family, anyone I could get my hands on. I’d keep drilling it in. Repeating with the conviction that I truly felt. That is until my gentle, soft spoken husband snapped one day and said “An itch just has to be

Psychodermatology

Do you Pick your Psychic Skin? Change the way you look at Chronic Skin Conditions

The best and worst parts of working with the skin is that it’s all out in the open The watched pot never boils. And the visible skin hardly gets to heal.

Functional Medicine

The non-human, human cells: Human microbiome and health

We seem compact, like a single being. Yet, that’s far from the truth. We are a collection of trillions of little cells. Some sharing our DNA and called our own.And some with their distinct genetic blueprints- our microbial cells - living among our human ones.

Touch

Touch can do a ton! Benefits of skin to skin care for babies is a clue to its potential

I love snuggling with my son... …his soft skin brushing mine 🤱🏻 Skin to skin care is done keeping the baby unclothed on mom’s bare chest, sharing warmth and touch. It has wonky benefits for both baby and mom:

Hypnotherapy

Mythbusting💥 5 Myths That Make Us Scared Of Hypnosis

Pop culture often paints hypnosis as scary woo-woo stuff. But once I started training in clinical hypnosis, I realised that many of those ideas were myths.

Touch

Why is Touch so ‘Touchy’?

All senses evoke emotions. But vision, our most developed everyday sense, evokes least. And touch, the most.

Functional Medicine

Does Eating Eat You Up?

It used to eat me up. That changed a few months back. The Hunger Monster I was afraid of hunger most of my life. I’d plan in advance, even waking early after 48 hour shifts, to avoid confronting my hunger.

Hypnotherapy

5 Fun & Simple ways of inducing hypnotic trance

The swinging pendulum, a dizzying spiral, looking at a point… That’s how we imagine hypnosis. But there are gentler ways. These are 5 cool induction techniques (ways of going into a trance):

Unconscious

Can Your Unconscious Help Your Health?

Good communication is vital. In the outer world and the inner one. Many of our health concerns are created or worsened by a block in the talk between our conscious and unconscious parts.

Unconscious

Five Ways To Your Unconscious

Our unconscious is always accessible. But usually our conscious mind works like a curtain that keeps our unconscious just out of reach. Once the conscious mind steps back, the unconscious is right there.

Touch

A Treasure trove of Touch

The good : Tactile stimulation can improve cognitive function, circulation, immunity and boost our mood. The bad: Touch can keep disturbing us in the background, even when we’re unaware of it.

Functional Medicine

The Emotions of Eating

Functional medicine regards food as medicine. Why? We become what we eat Every cell we consume is broken down. Then built up into the cells and tissues of our body. Into our selves. We become why we eat, and how we eat We can eat for hunger or to satisfy

Psychodermatology

The Skin In Supernatural

Most indigenous cultures have tales about skin diseases. Supernatural forces star in many. There are myths and legends. Folk tales of blebs and blemishes. Could this be because our ancestors intuitively guessed the link between skin and psyche?

Psychodermatology

The Skin-Psyche Link

Womb to Tomb Skin and nerves (those in our brain and all over our body) begin their journey together. In a tiny embryo, there is a layer called ectoderm. It gives rise to both surface ectoderm- becoming the coverings of our body and neuroectoderm

Functional Medicine

I Wrestled With My Gut For So Long. Literally And Metaphorically. This Is What I Learned

I’d always sensed that there was more to health than what I was taught in med school. But it took me a long struggle with my own health to actually believe it.

Hypnotherapy

How Do You Experience Hypnosis? FAQs

This is a living, changing post. I add to it as I get more questions : )

Hypnotherapy

What Is Hypnosis?

Do you think hypnosis is mind control? Or at least coersion and manipulation? Sort of like a magic trick? I invite you to think again 💡

Hypnotherapy

How I Found Hypnosis

The first time I heard of hypnosis was in a tv show. An unsuspecting guy was made to ‘sleep’ and stay glued to the spot, unable to move till the hypnotist let him. To my 11 year old brain, this was a cool magic show. Many years later, I came across the term hypnosis in a medical text.