You are also a popular influencer on Instagram. Thus, beginning to take baby steps on the path of healing and building a better understanding ofВ mental health. The book dwells deeply in this process of truly understanding, accepting and forgiving past versions of ourselves to birth a new one. In this process, we hopefully see-through certain patterns, coping mechanisms, illusions and a lot more than one has been forgotten within. In ourВ conversation with light and darkness we often look back at our lives. Please tell us more about how darkness and light focuses on the conversation of mental health?

Mental health is a popular topic of discussion. The book is my journey from a wounded child to a better self-parent. The book puts front and centre stage the themes and references from my childhood and healing process. We canвЂ™t change it, but we can embrace it. Childhood is the foundation our lives are built upon. Unpacking my own childhood trauma and how it impacted my life is one of the darkest things being talked about in the book. WhatвЂ™s the darkest thing about your life which youвЂ™ve written about in the book? This gave me the strength to write a book. Strangers, most likely wouldnвЂ™t be meeting ever, shared their stories in relation to the captions on the page.

And soon my Instagram page became not only about the Himalayan landscapes outside but searing discussions like childhood trauma, unpacking emotions, beginning the healing journey, spirituality, healthy relationships, self-love and more. ThatвЂ™s when I started sharing my verses online. Something that happens when we stop running after a long haul. Moving away from the hustling cities to the mountains is a lifestyle change that can evoke a lot inside a person. The book tries to reflect that, going beyond and bending the rules. It is a spectrum of highs as beautiful as dancing solo and as low as oneвЂ™s inability to leave the bed ever. Healing isnвЂ™t a straight road journey or same genre experience. And as long as the words are healing, the format wasnвЂ™t restricted to frames or rhymes, or poetry, or verses or short stories either.В The verses in the book are symbolic of the nonlinear healing process. It was never a question of genre for me, what mattered was healing. Why did you choose to bend genre and go beyond? Generally people write poetry or stories. If healing could be words, then these are the ones that came to me on my journey. It is popularly also known as вЂњthe workвЂќ or the вЂњinner workвЂќ.

Light stands for healing and darkness represents the psychologicalВ shadow work that one needs to do. It is based on the belief that each of us carry light and darkness within us. In Conversation with light and darkness is a collection of hundred poems and tenВ shortВ stories. Please tell us more about the concept behind your book Light and Darkness Her vision as an author is to share words as authentically as she perceives them. Her Instagram page, Dastaan-e-musafir, became a movement of exploration between the inner journey of poetry and the outer journey of the mountains. Soon strangers from all walks of life began to resonate with her words and shared their life stories. When all the city hustle faded away in the sleepy Himalayan village of Manali, Ambika started sharing her midnight scribbles with the world online. In her journey, moving to the mountains wasnвЂ™t merely a physical move but one that also involved moving to and climbing the mountains within. Born and brought up in Delhi, Ambika moved to Manali a couple of years ago to write her first book. Ambika Mathur, a renowned social media influencer who has debuted as an author with her book вЂIn Conversation with Light and DarknessвЂ™.

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