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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.

24/11/2025

We grow up hearing parents say, “I would die for my children,” as if sacrifice is the ultimate proof of love. But what if love isn’t measured by what you’d die for, but by what you’re willing to change for? What if the real inheritance isn’t money or legacy, but the emotional climate you create?

What if the greatest act of love is allowing your children to become people who challenge you, stretch you, and move beyond the limits you had to survive?

This thread is not about blaming parents, it’s about inviting accountability as a form of love. Because healing often begins the moment you admit that what you inherited isn’t what you want to pass on 🤎

So here’s the real question:
Are you raising children to obey you, or raising children who feel safe enough to outgrow you? 💭

19/11/2025

In our communities, men aren’t taught to express pain, they’re taught to survive it silently.

Therapy gives language to the emotions they were told to hide 🤎

How were the men in your family taught to cope? 💭

17/11/2025

Gender-Based Violence can leave deep, invisible wounds. These are the compassionate truths I share with clients who are trying to make sense of what they lived through, at a pace that feels safe for them 🤎
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09/11/2025

Part 3:

The lines that slip out after years of listening to people search for love, belonging, and peace in the same places that hurt them 🤎

Therapy is equal parts witnessing and remembering, reminding people that they were never meant to earn their worth, fix what broke them, or carry what wasn’t theirs 🛋️

Some truths don’t heal instantly. They just start unravelling everything that isn’t true.

Which one of these landed most deeply for you? 💭
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05/11/2025

I’ve spent years teaching people how to find their voice.
But I only started using mine when I realised how silence had shaped me too.

As a brown psychologist, I know what it means to come from a culture that praises humility, but mistakes suppression for strength.

We don’t grow up learning to speak, we grow up learning to adjust, to accommodate, to avoid. So even when we have the degrees, the vocabulary, the platform, finding your voice still takes courage.

That’s what the Riky Rick project reminded me of. That language heals when it’s honest, when it sounds like home. When it’s not dressed up to be palatable, but spoken in a way that our communities can feel.

My work has never just been about therapy,
it’s been about translation. Turning what we were taught to hide into something we can finally name 🤎

What part of your voice are you still reclaiming? 💭

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04/11/2025

We inherit more than our looks, we inherit our patterns.
When families don’t talk about mental health, children grow up mistaking symptoms for personality.

They think anxiety means they’re weak, or that anger means they’re broken.

But awareness isn’t blame, it’s protection. Because what we don’t name, we repeat 🤎

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03/11/2025

Couples therapy isn’t about choosing who’s right, it’s about learning how to stay connected when things feel wrong.

Sometimes I give my clients language that sounds uncomfortable at first, but it changes everything.
Because most relationships don’t fail from a lack of love, they fail from poor communication and emotional misunderstanding.

These questions aren’t confrontation, they’re clarity. 💭
But also remember that tone matters when saying the above 🤎
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28/10/2025

Because healing isn’t always a hug. Sometimes it’s hearing the truth you’ve been avoiding 🤎

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23/10/2025

Most people think therapy is where you go to “get fixed.” But it’s not customer service, it’s self-study.
You don’t walk out in 50 minutes with your pain neatly packaged. You walk out knowing yourself a little better.

Sometimes therapy is talking through a heartbreak.
Sometimes it’s sitting in silence because you finally feel safe enough to. Sometimes it’s crying because you realise you’ve never been asked, “How does that make you feel?” without judgment.

Therapy isn’t about being broken, it’s about being brave enough to be honest. And no, your therapist doesn’t have it all figured out either. We’re just walking alongside you while you remember who you are 🤎

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22/10/2025

Many of us didn’t choose the roles we ended up playing. We became the calm one, the capable one, the one everyone turned to, not out of desire, but out of survival. We carried what others couldn’t, hoping it would earn us belonging.

But real belonging doesn’t require exhaustion. It asks for truth. It asks that we allow ourselves to be seen in our tenderness, our needs, our limits. Because peace doesn’t come from managing others, it comes from finally being honest with ourselves 🤎

✨ When was the last time you let yourself be supported, without guilt?
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21/10/2025

“What do you do for a living?” 💭

It’s hard to answer that question simply.
Because therapy isn’t just about listening or problem-solving, it’s about witnessing. It’s sitting with the stories people have carried alone for years, helping them see that the heaviness they feel is not who they are.

Some days, it feels like I help make the world a little less haunted, one conversation, one truth, one gentle moment of understanding at a time. Other days, it feels like I help people see themselves the way they’ve always deserved to be seen, whole, worthy, and already healing.

That’s the work. That’s the privilege 🤎
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13/10/2025

Many of my couples present with strong attachment but limited emotional safety.

What often looks like “communication issues” is actually intergenerational conditioning, where love was expressed through sacrifice, endurance, or silence rather than vulnerability.

Therapy becomes the space where couples learn that safety isn’t created by avoiding tension, but by learning to stay regulated within it 🤎

💭 How was love modelled in the relationships you grew up around?
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https://consciouspsychology.co.za/

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