Tee Talks · body mapping & self-compassion

Hard to explain? Show me where it sits.

Sometimes we feel a lot in the body and can’t quite tell what it is. That’s okay, you’re not the only one. Scroll through this body map with me. We’ll go gently, one place at a time, with something small and kind to try at each.

Or tap the body wherever something is sitting today, and we’ll start there.

01 · The mind
overthinking, fog

Notice and name

Sometimes the head just feels “weird”. It might be worry, a heavy or achy head, or thoughts that won’t stop looping. There’s a whole universe in there, and most of it never gets noticed. Let’s start small: what’s one thing you might be feeling in your head right now?

02 · Throat and shoulders
things left unsaid

What I couldn’t say

Sometimes we want to say something, but the words won’t come out. Maybe it felt scary, or there was nowhere safe to say it, so the throat and shoulders started carrying it instead. Write one line here, to whoever or whatever it’s for. Nobody else will read it.

Or let it out without words: two long, slow sighs.

03 · The chest
overwhelm, heaviness

Hand on heart

When your chest feels heavy or too full, try this: rest one palm flat on it, feel it rise and fall under your hand, and stay for thirty seconds. It sounds small, but your own warm hand can be a kind place to come back to. Try it with me and watch the glow.

04 · The gut
butterflies, dread

Breathe a little longer

Butterflies before a big day, a knot that won’t loosen, dread with no clear reason. The stomach often feels it before we can name it. Try breathing out a little longer than you breathe in: in for four, out for six, three rounds. I’ll breathe with you.

ready

05 · The feet
wanting to run

Come back to the ground

Some days everything in you wants to run, out of a room, a conversation, a feeling. Before you go anywhere, come back to where your feet are. Look around and tap each thing as you notice it, and watch a root grow with every tap.

That was a whole map

Nothing on it is wrong.

Whatever showed up today is allowed to be there. That’s what body mapping is: you draw where a feeling sits in your body, what it makes you want to do, and what might be underneath. Once a feeling has a place on paper, it gets a little easier to be kind to it.

If something you met on the way is still sitting with you, we can map it together, one to one, at your pace.

Or keep scrolling and we’ll zoom out together.

Zoom out

You’re in good company out here.

Your map is one of many. Every light out here is a feeling someone has carried, and the gold ones are real words people have shared with us, kept without names. Hover or tap to read them.

New to this? What body mapping is

Tushti, smiling, in a cream crochet top
Hi, I’m Tushti

I study how people think, feel and change.

I’m a counselling psychology graduate student at the University of Toronto and a body mapping facilitator working with people across India. I help you notice where a feeling sits in your body, find words for it, and meet it with a little more kindness. Tee Talks is where that work lives: 1:1 sessions, small workshops, and writing on family, relationships and growing up.

  • 60+people have mapped with me, in groups and one to one
  • ICCP 2026presented body mapping at the 6th International Conference on Counselling and Psychotherapy
  • Online across India1:1 sessions in English, Hindi or Punjabi
Ways to map with Tushti

Come and draw one with me.

For you, on your own

1:1 body mapping

₹1,50060 minutes

One person, one map, at your pace. We look at what you are carrying and what it might be asking for. Online across India, in English, Hindi or Punjabi.

Next: pick a time, answer a few short questions, then pay by UPI or card. What happens in the hour

For you, in a small room

Workshops

Waitlist open · date set when the room fills

Small online rooms: one feeling, one shared map, two hours, ten seats. Everyone on the waitlist hears first.

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For a school, college or team

Schools, colleges and organisations

Body mapping and self-compassion sessions designed around your group. In person in Bengaluru, or online across India.

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Body mapping at Tee Talks is a reflective, psychoeducational practice. It is not therapy, diagnosis or crisis care.

A visual language, not a dictionary

The same feeling never looks the same twice.

There is no chart that says what a red mark on your chest means. Tap a feeling to see one way a map of it might look, then draw over it, or clear it and draw your own.

Pick one above, or just start drawing.

Your map stays on your device.

From the writings

Things I keep thinking about.

Read all the writings

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