Have you ever reached a really low point or had a bad day and found that coming home to your pet has cheered you up? That’s no coincidence! Animals can be very healing for us, and psychology absolutely recognises it. Animal Assisted Therapy Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) is growing in popularity and therapists are harnessing it more frequently as part of a treatment plan for psychological disorders. I had heard that rescue animals can be particularly good at connecting with humans who’ve suffered trauma. I wanted to find out if ..read more

The last day I saw my father alive (shortly before his death in 2007), he asked me to clean his glasses. He was wearing them at the time, and when I went to lift them off his face, it was evident that through dried tears, they’d become encrusted onto ..read more

Over the years, I relocated several times for education and work in India. On every street, I found a dog who became a companion. They knew my schedule and would wait at their spot with wagging tongues and tails. One would climb the stairs to my house because why not ..read more

Swimming with dolphins was on my bucket list. When I turned 50, I said to myself, “Right this is it. Now or never.” I had talked myself out of going numerous times listing all the reasons why it didn’t make sense to fly to the Bahamas and take the CranioSacral ..read more

Hajira Maryam is a journalist from Pakistan. You can reach her on Twitter @hajiramirza. She speaks about herself, her mother, and her cat, and how her cat saved her mother’s life, in a way. Growing Up At first, when my mother was not diagnosed, when she was not ‘not a ..read more

(6 awesome benefits for mankind) Dogs serve people, helping them cope with and recover from physical and mental conditions. It builds on a concept known as the human — animal bond. Paws for People states that dogs and man have shared a close relationship for more than 15,000 years. It is one that is beneficial ..read more

Have you ever reached a really low point or had a bad day and found that coming home to your pet has cheered you up? That’s no coincidence! Animals can be very healing for us, and psychology absolutely recognises it. Animal Assisted Therapy Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) is growing in popularity and therapists are harnessing it more frequently as part of a treatment plan for psychological disorders. I had heard that rescue animals can be particularly good at connecting with humans who’ve suffered trauma ..read more

The last day I saw my father alive (shortly before his death in 2007), he asked me to clean his glasses. He was wearing them at the time, and when I went to lift them off his face, it was evident that through dried tears, they’d become encrusted onto the ..read more

Over the years, I relocated several times for education and work in India. On every street, I found a dog who became a companion. They knew my schedule and would wait at their spot with wagging tongues and tails. One would climb the stairs to my house because why not ..read more

Swimming with dolphins was on my bucket list. When I turned 50, I said to myself, “Right this is it. Now or never ..read more