Author
Praveen Saxena
Founder of Reauris. Writes from experience, not from a clinic.
Praveen started Reauris after his own long stretch of trying to manage stress without much of a map. He isn't a therapist or a psychologist, and nothing here is meant to replace one — it's careful writing about what actually helps, checked against reputable sources and rewritten until it says something useful rather than something soothing. Where a piece needs clinical judgement, it gets read by someone qualified before it goes up, and they're credited by name on it.
10 articles
6 min read · August 14, 2026
Mindfulness for Exam Stress: What to Do When You Can't Make Yourself Start
Exam anxiety isn't a discipline problem. It's a loop — pressure, avoidance, less time, panic — and the way out is smaller than you'd think.
5 min read · August 14, 2026
Self-Compassion Isn't Self-Pity (and It Isn't Letting Yourself Off)
The usual objection to self-compassion is that it makes you soft. That gets it backwards — here's what it actually is, and the one question that makes it usable today.
6 min read · August 14, 2026
Why Your Mind Races at Night (and What Actually Helps)
You were fine all day. Then the light goes off and everything arrives at once. Here's why the mind gets loud at bedtime, and what to do that isn't "just stop thinking about it."
6 min read · August 14, 2026
Breathing Exercises for Anxiety: Why the Out-Breath Is the One That Matters
"Take a deep breath" is close to useless advice on its own. Here's the part nobody mentions — it's the exhale that does the work, and why some breathing exercises make anxiety worse.
3 min read · February 12, 2026
Presence Over Perfection: Showing Up Imperfectly, On Purpose
Being present doesn't mean being calm, focused, or good at it. It just means showing up as you are, without waiting to be a better version of yourself first.
4 min read · February 5, 2026
The Relief of Writing It Down: Why Naming a Worry Loosens Its Grip
There's a real cognitive reason unloading a worry onto paper — or into a jar — makes it feel lighter almost immediately.
4 min read · January 29, 2026
What Mindfulness Actually Means (and What It Doesn't)
Mindfulness has become a marketing word for almost anything calm. Here's what it actually is, stripped of the branding.
5 min read · January 22, 2026
Grounding Techniques for Stress: Finding Your Feet Again
When your thoughts are somewhere else entirely — the past, the future, a worst-case scenario — grounding is how you come back to where you actually are.
4 min read · January 15, 2026
A Simple Daily Gratitude Practice That Actually Sticks
Most gratitude habits fail because they're too big. Here's a smaller, more honest version that's easier to keep.
4 min read · January 8, 2026
How to Calm Down Fast, Without Pretending You're Fine
A few genuinely quick ways to bring your body out of a stress spiral — grounded in what actually happens physically when you're overwhelmed.
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