FROM THE THERAPY ROOM : Psychology of Mind and Body

Jyoti Gupta, Clinical Psychotherapist, Chetnamindfulness, Roots Mental Health
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From The Therapy Room: Psychology of Mind & Body You don't just think-you pattern. You don't just feel-your body remembers. A quiet exploration of your inner world through The Darshana Method — one struggle, examined through psychoanalytic, existential, somatic, and Indian, Asian and western philosophy. Because the roots change depending on which lens, culture, and moment you're looking through. Not to fix you-to help you see clearly. Hosted by Jyoti Gupta, clinical psychologist, 30years in practice. This season explores relationships through the Darshana Method New episodes every Tuesday.

  1. 5d ago

    Why Do We Keep Having the Same Fight?

    Same words. Same silence. Same fight. Why do couples keep having the same argument, and what is it really about? In this episode of From the Therapy Room, psychotherapist Jyoti Gupta turns the question over slowly: the body's alarm, the old scene replaying, the quiet question under the loud sentence, and the life around the couple. Relationship psychology, nervous system science, attachment, culture and philosophy, with no single answer. Just a few ways of seeing it, so you can notice which one feels like yours. If something in today's conversation felt like it was speaking to you, and you'd like to explore it further with support, you're welcome to reach out at chetnamindfulness.com. Sessions are online and open to clients worldwide. If you like to go deeper through learning rather than one-on-one work, I also run workshops and I'm developing courses: chetnamindfulness.com or chetnamindfulness@gmail.com Something you'd like us to explore together? Write to chetnamindfulness@gmail.com. Your note stays anonymous, and I'll read it on the show only if you say that's okay. Free reflection sheet for this episode: https://www.chetnamindfulness.com/free-resources This is education, not therapy. If you're struggling, please reach out to someone you trust or a professional. #RelationshipPsychology #CouplesConflict #Psychotherapy #MentalHealthPodcast #FromTheTherapyRoom 📚 Sources & Further Reading Research-backed: Gottman & Levenson (recurring "perpetual" problems, physiological flooding); Carrère & Gottman, 1999 (the first minutes of a conflict conversation); Gordon & Chen, 2014 (poor sleep and next-day conflict); Conger & Elder (family stress model); Roberts & David, 2016 (partner phubbing); Hazan & Shaver, 1987 (attachment in adult relationships); Johnson (outcome research on emotionally focused couple therapy). Theoretical/clinical: Freud (repetition compulsion, transference); Jung (shadow, projection); Porges (polyvagal theory, parts still debated); Young et al. (schema therapy); Hochschild, The Second Shift (the "mental load"); Bowlby (attachment). Philosophical/wisdom tradition: Nyaya (perception, inference and vyapti); Buddhist Sallatha Sutta (the two arrows). Film: Marriage Story (2019), directed by Noah Baumbach.

    Why Do We Keep Having the Same Fight?

  2. Oct 13

    Why do we overthink everything?

    Why do we overthink everything? Your mind won't switch off, even when nothing is going wrong. What if it isn't broken, only trying very hard to keep you safe? Inspired by a message from a listener, this episode looks at what overthinking is, why the loop is so hard to stop, what the brain and body are doing while it runs, and what people describe as helpful. In the show notes: a free reflection sheet, questions to sit with, sources, and the link to write in to the show (anonymous). Reflection sheet: https://www.chetnamindfulness.com/free-resources Write to me: chetnamindfulness@gmail.com. chetnamindfulnesspod@gmail.com Your note stays anonymous, and I'll only read it on the show if you say that's okay. Thank you for listening to From the Therapy Room. If this episode resonated with you and you are ready to explore private one-to-one therapy, spaces are open globally. Connect directly via WhatsApp: https://wa.fm/919876735180" 📚 Sources & Further Reading Research-backed: rumination (Nolen-Hoeksema; Ehring & Watkins); intolerance of uncertainty (Dugas et al.); stress and the prefrontal cortex (Arnsten). Theoretical/clinical: Freud, Jung, schema therapy, attachment theory, polyvagal theory (debated). Philosophical/wisdom: Bhagavad Gita 2.47; the Buddhist two arrows. This is education, not therapy. If you're struggling, please reach out to someone you trust or a professional. India: Tele-MANAS 14416 · US: 988 · findahelpline.com If something here felt like it was speaking to you and you'd like to explore it with support, reach out at chetnamindfulness.com. Sessions are online and open to clients internationally. Workshops and courses: chetnamindfulness.com or chetnamindfulness@gmail.com New episodes every Tuesday, 6:30 AM IST. #Overthinking #MentalHealth #FromTheTherapyRoom

    Why do we overthink everything?

  3. Oct 6

    Why Does Letting Go Feel Like Losing Ourselves?

    What if you're not missing them, but missing who you were with them? In this episode, we explore why letting go can feel like losing yourself. We look at it through psychology, the body, culture, Freud and Jung, the film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and old wisdom from India, China and Greece. Not advice. Just a space to feel understood. 📚 Sources & Further ReadingResearch-backed: self-expansion and breakups (Aron; Slotter et al.), attachment (Hazan & Shaver; Davis et al.), the body (Hofer; Fisher et al.), online monitoring (Marshall), breakup forecasts and growth (Eastwick et al.; Lewandowski & Bizzoco)Theoretical/clinical: Jung, Freud, Continuing Bonds, Bowlby, schema therapy, coregulation, polyvagal theory, ambiguous lossPhilosophical/wisdom tradition: Yoga Sutras, Bhagavad Gita, Buddhist anatta, Zhuangzi, Epictetus, Savitri 💬 Online sessions worldwide: chetnamindfulness.comWorkshops & courses: chetnamindfulness.com or chetnamindfulness@gmail.com This is education, not therapy. If you're struggling, please reach out to someone you trust or a professional.

    Why Does Letting Go Feel Like Losing Ourselves?

  4. Sep 29

    Why Do We Become Emotionally Dependent?

    Plain text. No hashtags, no timestamps.) Why do we become emotionally dependent on someone, and why does being apart from them feel less like solitude and more like danger? Psychotherapist Jyoti Gupta turns that question over through the nervous system, early attachment, the need to belong, culture, and philosophy. This is The Darshana Method, a multi-lens approach to the same question, so there's no single tidy answer, and that's the point. 📚 Sources & Further Reading Research-backed: Ainsworth's Strange Situation studies; Hazan & Shaver (1987); Markus & Kitayama (1991) Theoretical/clinical: Porges (polyvagal theory); Maslow and Rogers; Freud; Jung; Yalom Philosophical/wisdom tradition: Sappho, Fragment 31; Wuthering Heights; Buddhist clinging (upadana); vairagya If something in today's conversation felt like it was speaking to you, you're welcome to reach out at chetnamindfulness.com. Sessions are online, for clients worldwide. Prefer to learn rather than one-on-one work? I run workshops and am developing courses. To hear more, get in touch at chetnamindfulness.com.

    Why Do We Become Emotionally Dependent?

  5. Sep 22

    Why Do We Chase People Who Pull Away?

    Why do we chase the people who pull away — not the ones who hurt us, but the ones who are simply hard to reach? This episode looks at anxious-avoidant attachment, the pursue-withdraw cycle, and why unpredictability can feel more like love than steadiness does — through psychology, myth, and philosophy, East and West. From the Therapy Room is not a therapy session. It's an inquiry — the same human ache, turned over from several honest angles, with no single answer and no diagnosis. Sessions held online, open internationally. chetnamindfulness.com

    Why Do We Chase People Who Pull Away?

  6. Sep 15

    Why Do We Lose Ourselves in Relationships?

    Why do we lose ourselves in relationships? Somewhere between loving someone and disappearing into them, something quietly shifts — an opinion goes unspoken, an ambition gets folded away, a version of you gets left behind. This episode turns that experience over through eight different lenses: attachment theory, the self we built to be loved, culture — East versus West, family systems, money and migration, digital life, the nervous system, and two philosophical traditions that answer this ache in completely different ways. This isn't therapy, and it isn't advice. It's an inquiry — so you can recognise yourself somewhere in here, without anyone telling you which version is the real one. If something in this conversation speaks to you, you can find my contact details and more on working together at chetnamindfulness.com. Sessions are held online, open to clients anywhere in the world.

    Why Do We Lose Ourselves in Relationships?

  7. Sep 8

    Why Is It So Hard to Trust Someone Who Loves Us?

    Why does being loved sometimes feel more frightening than being alone? This episode explores why we pull away from people who are actually safe, consistent, and trying to love us — moving through attachment theory, Freud on repetition, Jung on projection, and the nervous system's own reactions to closeness. Not a therapy session. Not advice. An inquiry — holding several explanations for the same human pattern side by side, and letting you recognize yourself in whichever one fits. Work With MeIf this conversation resonated with you and you’d like to explore these patterns in a safe, compassionate, and evidence-informed therapeutic space, I’d be honoured to hear from you. Sessions held online, open internationally. 📧 chetnamindfulness@gmail.com chetnamindfulnesspod@gmail.com 🌐 www.chetnamindfulness.com #attachment theory #fear of intimacy #psychodynamic #nervous system #hypervigilance #relationship #psychology #trauma-informed #Jungian psychology, #self-sabotage #trust issues

    Why Is It So Hard to Trust Someone Who Loves Us?

  8. Sep 1

    Why Do We Mistake Chemistry For Compatibility?

    Why can someone you've barely known become impossible to stop thinking about? Why can emotional unavailability feel strangely attractive? And why can uncertainty sometimes feel more exciting than emotional consistency? In Episode 5 of From the Therapy Room: Psychology of Mind and Body, we explore the fascinating psychology behind chemistry vs. compatibility. Through attachment theory, childhood relational patterns, Freudian and Jungian perspectives, psychodynamic thinking, projection, repetition, limerence, and the nervous system, we explore what may be happening underneath that powerful feeling we simply call “chemistry.” Perhaps you're not only responding to the person. Perhaps you're responding to something they awaken in you. A familiar emotional pattern. A longing to be chosen. A part of yourself you experience differently around them. A nervous system responding to uncertainty. Or perhaps it really is genuine connection. That's what makes attraction so psychologically complex. This episode explores questions many of us have felt but rarely articulate: Why am I attracted to emotionally unavailable people? Why can't I stop thinking about someone? Could familiarity be mistaken for chemistry? Are butterflies always attraction? And perhaps the most revealing question: What is this chemistry actually made of? Because chemistry can tell us that something is happening. Compatibility tells us what becomes possible between two people. 🎧 Follow From the Therapy Room: Psychology of Mind and Body for more psychologically grounded conversations about relationships, attachment, emotional patterns, trauma, and the mind-body connection. Work With Me: If you'd like to explore your own relational patterns in a deeper therapeutic space, reach out at  Email--chetnamindfulness@gmail.com chetnamindfulnesspod@gmail.com Website-www.chetnamindfulness.com #ChemistryVsCompatibility #RelationshipPsychology #Attachment #Limerence #PsychologyOfRelationships #FromTheTherapyRoom

    Why Do We Mistake Chemistry For Compatibility?
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From The Therapy Room: Psychology of Mind & Body You don't just think-you pattern. You don't just feel-your body remembers. A quiet exploration of your inner world through The Darshana Method — one struggle, examined through psychoanalytic, existential, somatic, and Indian, Asian and western philosophy. Because the roots change depending on which lens, culture, and moment you're looking through. Not to fix you-to help you see clearly. Hosted by Jyoti Gupta, clinical psychologist, 30years in practice. This season explores relationships through the Darshana Method New episodes every Tuesday.

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    Jyoti Gupta, Clinical Psychotherapist, Chetnamindfulness, Roots Mental Health
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