Amirah Ahmad Shah
Is Your Grief Unresolved?
We do not always get the privilege of closure when we lose someone we love; whether it is from the breakdown of a relationship, the loss...
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Amirah Ahmad Shah
- May 9, 2022
- 3 min
Have you experienced Posttraumatic Growth from COVID-19?
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented various threats, traumas, and grievances for most people across the globe. Naturally, traumatic...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Apr 5, 2022
- 5 min
How to Deal with My Childhood Trauma?
Did you grow up with Adverse Childhood experiences (ACEs)? And what does this have to do with childhood trauma and toxic stress? Now, if...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Feb 4, 2022
- 8 min
Why Do I Feel Lost in My Grief?
Grief and Trauma is never neat or easily understood. We have various models that attempt to describe, understand, and treat complicated...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Dec 5, 2021
- 4 min
Why Do I Feel Stuck?
Feeling stuck is a common human experience. So you are not alone. You can feel stuck at some point in your life, whether in your career,...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jul 14, 2021
- 6 min
Online Learning: Poor Concentration & Distractedness. Why & How to Fix it.
Do you struggle with online learning? Do you find yourself getting distracted when listening/ watching lectures on the computer...? Maybe...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- May 26, 2021
- 3 min
CALD Family Matters in a Western Society: Women's Perspective
ABC News journalist, Christina Zhou, published a story on Australia Talks about What Australians think about Marriage and Children. She...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- May 18, 2021
- 4 min
Counselling VS Psychotherapy
What's the difference between Counselling and Psychotherapy? These two terms are often used interchangeably, but... Is there really a...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Mar 19, 2021
- 2 min
Your Therapist is Your Cheerleader
NOT in the way that strokes your ego, but in the way that he/she is silently cheering you on towards your goals. In a way that also...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Mar 1, 2021
- 2 min
Do You Have Your Five Freedoms in Your Culture?
Do you have the freedom to experience, think, desire, feel and imagine, in your family? Does the rest of your family have these freedoms?...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Feb 28, 2021
- 5 min
How to understand the Science of Grief and Find Meaning in Your Loss
Do you want to go through grief alone? It's such a personal experience. but you don’t need to go through grief and bereavement alone....
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Feb 9, 2021
- 1 min
EQ vs IQ?
It's not one or the other. You can cultivate EQ. You are more aware about yourself, you can articulate and express yourself well, and you...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Feb 1, 2021
- 1 min
What Trauma Looks Like
The effects of Trauma are sometimes more obvious that you think. The wheel shows us what trauma can actually LOOK like. If you happen to...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jan 27, 2021
- 2 min
Reminders, Appointments & Showing Up
Clients sometimes ask me why I do not send them reminder texts or emails for their appointments. My answer to this is that therapy...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jan 25, 2021
- 2 min
Shit Happens. Such is Life. Question is: What can YOU do about it?
How we cope with major stressors in life can determine: whether we succumb to psychologically negative effects, or experience...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jan 23, 2021
- 2 min
Do you live a Psychologically Rich Life?
Do you think you experience more intense positive and negative emotions? Are you hardly jaded with the day-to-day life and activities? Do...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jan 19, 2021
- 1 min
New Years' Resolutions!
We are a few weeks into the new year, and I am sure a number of us have had some Resolutions for 2021 scribbled somewhere. Given the year...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jan 19, 2021
- 2 min
Chit-Chat
Over the course of the decade, social networking has evolved to be our default form of maintaining relationships. The pandemic has...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jun 25, 2020
- 2 min
Money Money Money, It's so Funny, In a Rich Man's World...
I found a post on LinkedIn by Matt Shewbridge, a job coach. I would like to complement this post with a mental health perspective. He...
Amirah Ahmad Shah
- Jun 15, 2020
- 1 min
Mental Health & the Pandemic: That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
Most of us know the 5 stages of grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression & acceptance. But there's a 6th one now- MEANING. The...
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