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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.

21/09/2025

For many brown women, anxiety isn’t clinical, it’s cultural. Rest often feels rebellious. Anxiety whispers that slowing down isn’t safe. If anxiety was our inheritance, then healing has to be our legacy 🤎

⚡ Do you resist rest because it feels lazy or because it feels dangerous?
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16/09/2025

So much of what we call “personality” is really just unprocessed pain. The voices we absorbed, the survival strategies we built, the ways we protect ourselves without even realising. Therapy doesn’t erase your past, but it gives you the chance to stop being run by it. It’s where numbness can finally give way to presence, where patterns can be understood instead of repeated, and where you learn that healing isn’t about going back, it’s about finally moving forward 🤎

What’s one thing you wish you could let go of? 💭
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15/09/2025

The truth is, when brown men don’t confront their emotions, it doesn’t just stay with them. It bleeds into their relationships, their parenting, their workplaces, their friendships. Silence becomes distance. Anger becomes intimidation. Control gets mistaken for care. And the cycle continues.

Yes, the pressure is real. Generations of expectation, migration, and survival shaped them this way. But at some point, that history stops being a shield and starts being a choice. Choosing not to feel is still a choice.

Healing asks for courage - the courage to sit with pain instead of bury it, to admit fear instead of masking it, to let love be more than providing and protecting. Because when men refuse that work, the cost isn’t only theirs. Their partners, children, and families inherit it too.

In one word, how would you describe the pressure on men? 💭

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10/09/2025

The cost of emotional labour on brown women is invisible, but it lives in our bodies, our silence, our postponed dreams. Naming it is the first step to handing it back. 🤎

Do you feel you’ve carried weight that was never yours to hold? 💭

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09/09/2025

The problem is, we often try to fix the surface issues without looking deeper at the root causes. 💭

But here’s the truth: human struggles are layered and complex. While these examples name common patterns, they don’t capture the full picture. Healing isn’t a one-size-fits-all process - it’s deeply personal, shaped by culture, history, relationships, and individual nervous systems.

✨ Consider this post an invitation to reflect, not a complete explanation. Therapy helps you explore your unique story and uncover your deeper roots.
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02/09/2025

Self-kindness isn’t just rest and self-care rituals. It’s accountability, discomfort, and protecting your future self from the same old patterns.

What does kindness to yourself look like right now? 💭
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28/08/2025

Discernment matters in healing. Knowing when you’re facing trauma & when you’re facing consequence. Knowing when you’re being gaslit… & when someone just sees it differently.

How do you check in with yourself before labeling an experience? 💭

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21/08/2025

We avoid money conversations in relationships because they’re never just about money. They touch on trust, power, security, and even old wounds about worth 🤎

But silence only turns money into a silent weapon.

What would change if you and your partner could talk about money without fear? 💭
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17/08/2025

We talk about imposter syndrome like it’s a personal flaw - but most of the time, it’s a mirror of the systems we live in.

Women (and especially women of color) are taught to shrink, over-prepare, and doubt themselves even when they’re more than qualified.

The truth? Imposter syndrome isn’t solved by becoming less you. It eases when you start trusting the traits that make you most you - your empathy, intuition, intelligence, and presence.

I was so inspired by the event by this weekend, that I had to put my thoughts into a post for you guys!

✨ So I want to ask you:
Have you ever felt like you had to “prove” yourself twice as hard?
Do you find yourself attaching your worth to your achievements?
And what would change if you leaned into your authenticity instead?

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13/08/2025

Silence was the currency of survival in our homes. We learnt to trade our truth for belonging, our grief for gold stars, our pain for the illusion of peace. But here’s the paradox, what kept us safe then, is what’s keeping us stuck now. Healing asks something terrifying of us: to speak the words that might disrupt the very systems we were raised to protect 🤎

The question is, are you willing to risk breaking the silence, knowing it might be the only way to break the cycle? 💬

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10/08/2025

Raksha Bandhan was once beyond gender. What would happen if we let it be that way again? 💭💭💭

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09/08/2025

This Women’s Day, remember - breaking the cycle is loud, messy, and holy work.
And we’re doing it anyway 🤎

What are you doing for yourself today? 🙂💭

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https://consciouspsychology.co.za/

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