Conscious Psychology

Conscious Psychology Conscious Psychology is a modern and distinctive psychology practice founded by Counselling Psychologist, Sanam Naran.

Conscious Psychology was born out of a need to provide clients with an inclusive, safe, private and holistic therapeutic space.

Secure couples aren’t conflict-free, they’re repair-focused 🌹They pause defensiveness.They name impact, not just intenti...
08/01/2026

Secure couples aren’t conflict-free, they’re repair-focused 🌹

They pause defensiveness.
They name impact, not just intention.
They take responsibility without keeping score.
They come back to the conversation before resentment hardens into distance.

Most people wait for things to “blow over.”
Secure couples do the quiet, uncomfortable work of coming back to each other.

What do you usually do after a hard moment: avoid it, justify it, or repair it? 💭💭💭
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We don’t repeat relationship patterns because we’re broken, we repeat them because they once kept us emotionally safe. W...
05/01/2026

We don’t repeat relationship patterns because we’re broken, we repeat them because they once kept us emotionally safe. When love was uneven, conditional, or role-based, reciprocity felt unfamiliar, even threatening. So we over-give, under-receive & call it commitment ❤️‍🩹

Are you choosing partners who feel familiar, or ones who feel emotionally mutual? 💭
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Starting this year off with some positivity - here’s some good news about mental health that rarely gets airtime 🤎 Let m...
03/01/2026

Starting this year off with some positivity - here’s some good news about mental health that rarely gets airtime 🤎

Let me know if you like this series? ✨

I’m curious - what helped your mental health that nobody prepared you for? 💭
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Anxiety wasn’t a personality trait. It was conditioning & just because it produced success doesn’t mean it was harmless....
29/12/2025

Anxiety wasn’t a personality trait. It was conditioning & just because it produced success doesn’t mean it was harmless.

We don’t talk enough about the emotional cost of being “high functioning” for years on end or how often fear gets mistaken for drive.

What did your anxiety help you achieve & what did it quietly take from you? 💭

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Not everything we carry is chosen consciously.Some patterns are inherited, learned, or absorbed quietly through systems ...
27/12/2025

Not everything we carry is chosen consciously.
Some patterns are inherited, learned, or absorbed quietly through systems that reward endurance over discernment.

Growth isn’t always about doing more or becoming better. Sometimes it’s about noticing what no longer needs to be carried and allowing yourself to put it down without apology or explanation.

This is the kind of work that doesn’t announce itself.
But it changes how people move through their lives 🤎

What are you leaving behind? 💭
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Not every year is for becoming.Some are for holding yourself together quietly.December doesn’t get to grade your healing...
22/12/2025

Not every year is for becoming.
Some are for holding yourself together quietly.
December doesn’t get to grade your healing.

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Self-awareness isn’t meant to make you smaller.It’s not a constant audit of your failures or a demand to be endlessly “f...
18/12/2025

Self-awareness isn’t meant to make you smaller.
It’s not a constant audit of your failures or a demand to be endlessly “fixable.”

Real awareness allows complexity:
the parts of you that protect, the parts that need care,
and the parts that have been quietly carrying far more than you acknowledge.

When insight turns into self-attack, that’s not growth, it’s conditioning. When reflection erases your goodness, that’s not humility, it’s learned survival.

This work is about seeing yourself clearly without disappearing yourself in the process 🤎

Where has “self-awareness” actually become self-punishment for you? 💭

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We learn to love from a place of responsibility, not reciprocity. & unlearning that is some of the hardest work we ever ...
11/12/2025

We learn to love from a place of responsibility, not reciprocity. & unlearning that is some of the hardest work we ever do, because it asks us to stop earning love and start receiving it. It asks us to stop mothering adults.
It asks us to stop mistaking self-abandonment for strength. It asks us to stop carrying what was never ours.

But when you finally put the labour down, you don’t lose the relationship, you gain the truth of it 🤎

Where did you learn to over-function in love? 💭
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We don’t choose partners we need to parent by, we choose them because the emotional labour feels familiar.When you grow ...
10/12/2025

We don’t choose partners we need to parent by, we choose them because the emotional labour feels familiar.

When you grow up being the responsible one, the fixer, the child who held the family’s emotional weight…
love starts to feel like work, not rest. And calling it “caring” becomes the easiest way to hide the truth: you’re repeating a role you were never allowed to outgrow.

This thread is for the part of you that’s exhausted, loyal, over-functioning and finally noticing that being needed is not the same as being loved.

Which slide hit you the hardest? 🤎

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Anger in therapy isn’t a sign that something’s wrong, it’s a sign that something meaningful is finally happening.When a ...
10/12/2025

Anger in therapy isn’t a sign that something’s wrong, it’s a sign that something meaningful is finally happening.

When a therapist touches the parts of you that were never protected, never named, or never allowed to feel… the body reacts first. That anger is often the doorway to the work you’ve spent years avoiding.

Which of these felt the most true for you? 🤎
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December is the month where the world slows down, but our bodies don’t always know how to follow. Especially when you we...
06/12/2025

December is the month where the world slows down, but our bodies don’t always know how to follow. Especially when you were raised in a family where being busy felt safer than being still. Rest isn’t just rest, it’s meeting all the things you’ve postponed feeling.

Maybe this December isn’t about productivity or “finishing strong,” but about noticing what shows up when you finally stop moving 🤎

What part of yourself shows up when you try to rest? 💭
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These hours hold so much more than the numbers show.They hold the weight of your family expectations,the silence you wer...
04/12/2025

These hours hold so much more than the numbers show.
They hold the weight of your family expectations,
the silence you were raised to keep,
the shame you inherited,
the emotions you were taught to swallow. And still, you came to therapy. You tried. You opened. You felt.

Thank you for trusting us with what generations before you never had space for. It’s an honour we carry with reverence 🤎

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