Archana Mishra - Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist

20/08/2025

“Are you ok, sweetheart?”
I heard this calming and concerning voice while resting between my sets. From last few days, I try to avoid my air pods/phone during my workout. It does help me to connect with my body and myself during my early morning gym hours.
“Yes, I am” I smiled back looking at the gorgeous lady who seemed to be in her late fifties or early sixties.
“Oh, so you are taking a break between your workout” her voice seems to be calmer and relaxed now. “Yes, just a small break before I start my next set” I replied. I was touched by her empathy. The next thing I heard myself saying to her “Thank you for checking, it did feel good.”
“That’s ok, we all need that, don't we?”
“Yes, so true” I told her with a smile and looked at her while she continued her workout. I wished I spoke to her more just to know more about her. There was something magical about her. The vibes, calmness and the concern - all were in sync. This small conversation made my day. It reminded me that you don’t have to do something big to bring a smile on someone’s face. It’s a small act of kindness and connection we all need :).

06/08/2025

Sometimes, ignorance is bliss!

26/06/2025

The closer you get to someone, the harder it is to avoid conflict—and honestly, that’s not a bad thing. When we start to really connect, our triggers come to the surface. You can’t truly know someone until you’ve been through a bit of fire together. That’s how you find out if your relationship can actually hold up. And when that moment comes, you’ve got a choice: walk away in frustration, or move toward it and try to grow together. Conflict isn’t what breaks connection. It’s the fear of dealing with it that does.

18/06/2025

Am I Losing Myself?
There are many situations in which we can lose ourselves. Sometimes we loose ourselves in relationships, or while servicing others or during illness, and sometimes when we experience grief.

It can be hard to tell the difference between healthy changes to your identity that occur as a function of age and losing who you are. Sometimes losing yourself happens suddenly and dramatically, other times it is a gradual, more subtle process. If you feel like you might be losing yourself but aren’t sure, here are a few signs to look out for:
Not giving yourself enough alone time
Negative self-talk
Not taking care of yourself
Seeking approval from others
Losing interest in things you used to care about
Not knowing what your preferences and needs are
Feeling powerless.
Self awareness is the key here. If you ever feel you are loosing yourself pause and reflect. Check your boundaries, try to hear your positive inner voice, do things which interest you. If you still feel the void take help from professional who can connect with you and help you in finding yourself again.

10/06/2025

05/05/2025

Do you constantly scroll through your feed? Eat food even when you know you are full? Or addicted to a substance?

These acts might be helping you to cope up with difficult emotions. In emotional focussed therapy these things which helps us not to feel our emotions are known as interrupters. Sometimes, we may consciously or unconsciously choose to avoid experiencing certain emotions because we believe we can't handle them. Do you know what happens to those emotions? They are buried deep down us and can come up in the form of emotional triggers or physical disease.
If you see yourself repeating a pattern or getting addicted to something, breathe and check with yourself that what emotions are you trying to avoid? Like you talk to a dear friend ask yourself how this addiction is helping you to cope up?
If required, take a help from a professional. They can help you decode and work with your emotions and addictions. There is no shame in asking for a help and meeting your vurneblity.

12/03/2025

Therapy doesn't change your past. It is going to help you to remove the charge attached to it. Healing means the experience is still there but emotion isn't.

08/03/2025

Happy women's day to all women! May you always be surrounded by love, respect, and opportunities to grow and shine. May you don't always have to prove yourself that how strong you are. Allow your inner child to play and enjoy.

26/02/2025

Kindness doesn’t mean ignoring people when they do things that are unkind, wrong, ignorant, racist, or discriminatory. It doesn’t mean keeping quiet when you disagree with someone about a moral issue. But it does mean treating people with respect.
Sometimes the kindest, bravest thing we can do is stand up to someone who is being unkind. Doing so causes conflict. It will upset the person we are confronting. A nice person would see the potential for conflict and stay quiet. A nice person never wants to rock the boat. A kind person knows conflict is possible and acts anyway. A kind person knows they might create waves, and they are OK with that.
True kindness can be tough, and it might leave you feeling less than kind. But even when you say no to yourself or others, you can do so from a place of love and compassion.

19/02/2025

Do you always feel your days are rushed and you are always chasing time?
SLOW YOUR MORNING!
If you feel like you live your life rushing, it's time for a change. It's time for you to have slower, more peaceful mornings.I grew up hearing the phase 'How you start your morning sets the tone for your entire day'. There is a lot of power in the slow morning. Few benefits of of having a slow start of the day are-
* You stay calmer and peaceful-A major benefit of
having a slower morning is that your day starts
much calmer. When your day starts like this, the
rest of the day tends to be stress-free as well.
* Productive-Slow mornings do the opposite of
what you think they will; they actually give you.
more energy, not less. Many consider them lazy,
but in reality, gradually waking up allows your
body to adapt to the day at a steady pace and
boosts your energy naturally.
* Family:your mood affects your family energy.
The day you are calmer it tends to lift the family
mood, while negative emotions can create a
more tense atmosphere.
Whatever you do, the key to slow mornings is not
rushing.

05/02/2025

As a child we look at our parent as perfect human being; one who doesn't have any flaws. But the truth is, in the process of ideolising our parents we forget they are human first and then our parents.

Lot of time during the therapy my clients being up their trauma related to their parents. As a child when we trust them as a perfect human and later on when we age the not so perfect side of them starts coming out infront of us. It feels like betrayal. The first question that comes in the mind is - How can they do this? How can they have double standard?
One of the most important tasks of adulthood is forgiving your parents. Yours parents are foundation for how you learned to be in relationship with other people. We see parts of our parents in ourselves, our partner, friends, children and coworkers.
Once we realise that our parents can also have some flaws it does help in resolving the conflict with them. Also it also lifts the weight of unnecessary expectations we have from us as a parent.
If you are carrying a resentment towards a parent, may be this week is the time to let it all go.