Society expects conformity. Herd-mentality says success is money. So we work long hours, commute, deal with air pollution, live stressed out, unhealthy lifestyles. We perform hollow tasks on repeat even as our souls shrivel.
Thirty individuals questioned this success. They needed meaning, not just a salary. A finance professional now makes mud homes, an HR professional makes a living through her art and photography, an Oxford and IIT educated couple live in a village and homeschool their children, and an ex-Citibanker makes cheese.
Vandita Dubey interviewed them and other contrarians. What triggered them to radically change their lives? Was it planned or on impulse? What were the risks and trade-offs? What is their new work and life? Are they happy? Any regrets?
In The Great Cubicle Escape, Vandita draws on these interviews, her own journey of moving to a Himalayan village and her training as a psychologist.
If, despite the front you put up, something doesn’t feel right and gnaws at you inside, this book might offer some answers.
Dr. Vandita Dubey is a US-trained clinical psychologist based in the Kumaon Himalayas, India. She has been working with children, teenagers, individual adults and couples for many years. Since April 2015, Dr Dubey has been providing individual psychotherapy/counselling to adults via the internet from her base in the Kumaon Himalayas. She also offers free mental health services to the local community. She continues to consult and conduct workshops for schools and corporates on various aspects of mental health and wellbeing.
Dr. Dubey has written a book titled “Parenting in the age of Sexposure: Raising the precocious generation”, published by Rupa, which was released in July 2016.
She also features as an expert on the mental health youtube channel Zen-Brain. Dr. Dubey is also one of the facilitators at the Himalayan Writing Retreat. She conducts Write to Heal & Grow.
For more information, please visit www.himalayanwritingretreat.com