The Buttercups- your wellbeing coach

22/08/2025

🌱 Small Moments Matter 🌱

The heavy rains in Karachi and other cities are not just closing schools. They are quietly reshaping childhood.

When children stay indoors for days, they lose more than lessons. They lose play, friendships, routines and the sense of safety that helps them grow. Parents, already under financial and emotional strain, feel the pressure rise. And children absorb that stress deeply.

The first five years are the foundation of life. A cuddle, a story, a shared meal, these small moments are what build resilience and trust. When they disappear, childhood erodes silently.

But even in uncertain times, homes can become sanctuaries. Storytelling, play, laughter and gentle reassurance can protect children’s wellbeing. And parents, too, need care, because a calm caregiver is often a child’s only safe haven.

💭 At The Buttercups- your wellbeing coach we ask: how can we protect these little but powerful moments for our children, even when the world outside feels unstable?

31/05/2025

🌿 Healing is not a luxury, it’s a right.

At The Buttercups- your wellbeing coach, our SELM-based psychosocial sessions create safe, mindful spaces where children and adolescents build resilience, emotional regulation, and inner calm. What looks like stillness is actually deep learning and healing in action.

23/05/2025

The Buttercups: A Growing Public Health Response to Emotional Wellbeing

In an era where emotional distress is rising and nature disconnection is deepening, The Buttercups offers a timely and systems-rooted response. This initiative is not a luxury, it is a necessity.

By integrating psychosocial coaching with structured, nature-based experiences, The Buttercups is supporting young children, youth and caregivers to restore regulation, rebuild connection, and relearn presence. Grounded in brain-based science and trauma-informed care, our work addresses stress physiology, nurtures resilience, and strengthens protective factors across generations.

This is public health on the ground, in nature, and through human connection.

Building Future Healthcare Systems Rooted in Emotional Wellbeing. Healing is not just about saving lives. It’s about nurturing dreams, resilience, and human connection. I am Dr. Asma Makhani, a physician, public health and human development specialist, ABNLP Master LifeCoach, TimeLine Therapist, p...

20/05/2025

Operationalizing Mindfulness in Chronic Paediatric Care: A Structured Psychosocial Intervention for Thalassaemia

Since 2015, the Psychosocial Wellbeing Center at the Kashif Iqbal Thalassaemia Care Centre (KITCC) has implemented a structured, protocol-based psychosocial intervention integrated into transfusion care for children and adolescents living with Thalassaemia Major.

Grounded in the SELM (Social Emotional Learning and Mindfulness) framework, this model delivers two 30-minute mindfulness sessions daily:

One prior to transfusion to support anticipatory regulation and psychological preparation

One during transfusion to reduce procedural anxiety and improve physiological calm

This intervention targets autonomic regulation, stress modulation, and emotion-focused coping. It is designed to support adherence, enhance the quality of clinical encounters, and reduce psychological distress over time, particularly in patients requiring lifelong transfusion therapy.

Importantly, the model has evolved to include peer-facilitated sessions, with trained adolescents with Thalassaemia serving as co-leads. This participatory design promotes self-efficacy, peer connection, and continuity of psychosocial engagement.

This initiative reflects a replicable, cost-effective psychosocial approach to improving health outcomes and patient experience within chronic care delivery aligned with trauma-informed and person-centred healthcare principles.

Operationalizing Mindfulness in Chronic Paediatric Care: A Structured Psychosocial Intervention for Thalassaemia Since 2015, the Psychosocial Wellbeing Center at the Kashif Iqbal Thalassaemia Care Centre (KITCC) has implemented a structured, protocol-based psychosocial intervention integrated into t...

13/05/2025

Integrating Psychosocial and Nature-Based Interventions into Chronic Care: A Public Health Systems Approach.

Effective chronic disease management in children and adolescents requires more than medical intervention, it must encompass emotional development, peer connection, and relational safety.

Since 2021, The Buttercups- your wellbeing coach , Psycho Social Well Being Center - KITCC
has been implementing an ongoing, nature-based intervention grounded in Social Emotional Learning & Mindfulness (SELM) Framework. These field sessions, including regular 18-hour overnight programs, are embedded into our long-term psychosocial care strategy.

This initiative engages:

- Children and adolescents living with Thalassaemia Major

- Neurotypical peers from communities

- Clinical staff and caregivers

By creating co-regulated, trauma-informed spaces in natural environments, we aim to:

- Mitigate the psychosocial burden of chronic illness.

- Enhance emotional regulation, resilience, and identity development.

- Facilitate inclusive peer bonding and community integration.

- Build psychosocial competencies among caregivers and health teams.

Rooted in public health systems thinking, child development, and the social determinants of health, this model demonstrates how nature can be leveraged as a therapeutic platform for equitable, scalable psychosocial care.

This is not enrichment. This is essential care.

Integrating Psychosocial and Nature-Based Interventions into Chronic Care: A Public Health Systems Approach. Effective chronic disease management in children and adolescents requires more than medical intervention, it must encompass emotional development, peer connection, and relational safety. Sinc...

04/05/2025

We are grateful that the Psycho Social Well Being Center - KITCC at Kashif Iqbal Thalassaemia Care Centre (KITCC) by The Buttercups- your wellbeing coach has been dedicatedly transforming the lives of more than 1000 Thalassaemia Major children and youth since 2015 through integrated Care Model, building resilience, purpose, and hope through social-emotional learning and mindful care.

21/04/2025

As part of our SELM (Social Emotional Learning & Mindfulness) framework, we continued with our 14-hour overnight, Nature-based program to support adolescent wellbeing at Psycho Social Well Being Center - KITCC . Grounded in evidence from developmental psychology and environmental neuroscience, this program integrates mindfulness, sensory engagement, and reflective practices in natural settings to promote emotional regulation, resilience, and cognitive balance.

29/03/2025

Eid Saloon Services by Thalassaemia Major Adolescent Girls!
What an Inspirational and empowering experiential learning of our Skill development participants Psycho Social Well Being Center - KITCC . We are extremely proud of them all. The team included Miss Rozina Nasir (PSWC - Assistant Director), Miss Hajra (Salon service Manager), Service providers- Tayyaba, Mehak, Bushra, Muskaan, Emaan. And our Intern- Sarfaraz Memon .
It's been a great learning experience for all of them.

14/03/2025

Our 16 weeks pilot skill development Programme for Adolescents with Thalassaemia Major has successfully come to an end. This initiative equips adolescents with practical skills and tools for future work and earning opportunities.

We extend heartfelt congratulations to all the graduates on their hard work and achievements, and special thanks to their trainer, Mrs. Jiya, for her dedication and guidance throughout the programme.

16/11/2024

We are grateful for a successful & transformative integrated Comprehensive Psychosocial Wellbeing Programme at Karachi, Pakistan's Leading Thalassaemia Major Center Kashif Iqbal Thalassaemia Care Centre (KITCC)
This Pioneer programme has been operational Kashif Iqbal Thalassaemia Care Centre since 2015.

26/08/2024

Extension Nature Program.... A Social Emotional Learning & Mindfulness Framework based Program for Psychosocial Wellbeing of Adolescents Psycho Social Well Being Center - KITCC Kashif Iqbal Thalassaemia Care Centre (KITCC)