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This week on Mental Health Bytes, hosts Dr. Aninda Sidhana and Rah MrTraumaTalks welcome Jeanette Bass Trigo, MSW, a Grief and Purpose Coach, End of Life Care Coach, and devoted advocate for healing through faith, compassion, and storytelling.

Jeanette’s work is rooted in lived experience. Her journey into grief advocacy began in childhood after the loss of her grandfather, the father figure she deeply longed for, and later through the loss of her beloved German Shepherd, King. These early experiences of love and loss shaped her calling to walk alongside others as they navigate grief, sorrow, and spiritual healing.

As the founder of Inspire2Healing and The No Grief Zone, Jeanette supports individuals and families as they move through loss and rediscover meaning beyond pain. Her approach blends emotional support with faith centered guidance, journaling, storytelling, and compassionate presence, reminding those she serves that grief does not have to be a lonely journey.

Jeanette is also the author of the children’s books Granny Wonder: Stopping the Villains of Social Media and Can I Call Heaven?, both available on Amazon. Through these stories, she helps children understand loss, love, and the enduring hope found in God, offering comfort in language that heals young hearts.

In this heartfelt episode, Jeanette joins the Mental Health Bytes conversation to explore grief, purpose, faith, and how healing is possible even after profound loss. Together, the hosts and Jeanette create a space of tenderness, truth, and hope for anyone carrying grief in their heart.

This episode is a reminder that while grief changes us, it can also guide us toward purpose, compassion, and deeper connection.

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Mental Health Bytes – Human Rights Day Special with Dr. Aninda Sidhana and Rah MrTraumaTalks

This week on Mental Health Bytes, Rah MrTraumaTalks opens the episode with a powerful reminder: “Mental health is not a luxury. It is a human right. And every single person deserves to feel seen, heard, understood, and protected.” With those words, he sets the tone for one of the most impactful conversations ever aired on the show.

In this Human Rights Day Special, Rah and Dr. Aninda Sidhana take listeners into a deep, authentic, and transformative dialogue that challenges stigma and redefines what emotional dignity truly means. With his raw honesty and lived experiences, Rah adds profound perspective, sharing how judgment, trauma, family dynamics, and societal pressures can shape a person’s mental health journey. His voice brings the human realities behind the clinical terms, reminding the world that behind every diagnosis is a life, a story, and a heart that wants to heal.

Dr. Aninda Sidhana offers an extraordinary breakdown of Borderline Personality Disorder and bipolar disorder, explaining the emotional, psychological, and relational struggles that individuals face. She highlights how stigma, discrimination, and misdiagnosis can strip people of their basic human rights, including the right to compassionate care, understanding, and emotional safety.

Together, Rah and Dr. Sidhana explore the connection between mental health, identity, and universal human rights. They speak openly about the LGBTQIA+ community and the global inequalities many queer individuals endure. The conversation reinforces the truth that equality, love, and belonging are not privileges. They are rights that every person deserves, regardless of background, orientation, diagnosis, or life journey.

Rah elevates the conversation with reflections on forgiveness, the weight of judgment, the healing power of love, and the ways spirituality connects us all whether through Jesus, Krishna, or any higher source. His insights remind listeners that genuine compassion is the foundation of human rights.

This episode unpacks the emotional rights that are often overlooked: the right to feel safe, the right to be understood, the right to make mistakes, the right to heal, and the right to exist without fear. Rah and Dr. Sidhana dismantle myths about BPD, explore the complexity of mood disorders, and offer a blueprint for supporting loved ones with empathy instead of judgment.

This conversation is not just educational. It is a global call for awareness. A reminder that human rights and mental health are deeply intertwined. And a message of hope for anyone who has ever been mislabeled, misunderstood, or mistreated.

Listen now to an episode that is honest, emotional, powerful, and essential for every person living on this planet.

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Meet This Week’s Guest on Mental Health Bytes: Vibhu Kashyap

This week on Mental Health Bytes, we are joined by the brilliant Vibhu Kashyap — a director, writer, and creative strategist whose work has helped reshape India’s storytelling landscape. Based in Mumbai and originally from Allahabad, Vibhu built his career from the ground up, arriving in the city without a safety net and moving homes fifteen times in just two and a half years. That journey of instability, grit, and self-belief became the foundation of the emotional intelligence that now defines his art.

With nearly two decades of experience across Bollywood, OTT platforms, and high-impact advertising, Vibhu is known for his instinctive approach to storytelling and his willingness to take creative risks. He served as Senior Creative Director for the acclaimed psychological thriller series Asur: Welcome to Your Dark Side, a groundbreaking blend of Indian mythology and forensic science that went on to earn an IMDb rating of 8.5 and redefine the Indian OTT thriller space. His early years as Assistant Director on iconic films like Main Hoon Na, Dor, and Iqbal shaped his understanding of emotional pacing and character-driven narratives.

He later directed the feature film NRI Wives, an anthology exploring the inner emotional worlds of Non-Resident Indian women. His work across OTT — including Crackdown, It’s Not That Simple, and Yo Ke Hua Bro — shows his range across espionage, relationship drama, and comedy. In advertising, Vibhu created one of India’s longest-running thermal wear commercials, a campaign that ran for thirteen years, and he continues to lend his voice to heartfelt, storytelling-led brand narratives.

At the core of Vibhu’s creative philosophy is a refusal to be boxed in by format. To him, emotional truth matters more than medium. He directs with empathy rather than ego, building characters shaped by real human complexity, moral conflict, and emotional turbulence. His “say yes first, figure it out later” approach has inspired a generation of young creators, encouraging them to trust their chaos and take ownership of their craft.

Vibhu Kashyap’s journey matters because it represents the resilience of an artist who carved his path through uncertainty while staying deeply connected to human emotion. His work champions survivor-informed storytelling, pushes the boundaries of genre, and offers powerful insights into how creativity, trauma, and healing intersect.

This week, he joins Mental Health Bytes with Dr. Aninda Sidhana and RAH (MrTraumaTalks) for an unforgettable conversation about art, psychology, emotional depth, and the stories that shape us.