By Tricitynews
Reporter
Chandigarh, Nov.24,
2021:- In order to break the stigma attached
to mental health and encourage people to talk more about mental health issues –
a tricity based 21-year old young entrepreneur, Angel D'souza has unveiled
tricity’s first of its kind Mental Health Café 'Your Sugar Daddy' at Sector 54, here.
Drawing her inspiration from Covid-19
blues-Angel, who is pursuing her studies in Psychology at UBC, Vancouver,
Canada conceptualized a unique concept to provide a warm and welcoming space
for the customers to talk on mental health issues over a coffee & a bite.
Speaking about her venture, Angel
said that COVID was the reason she could start this venture, it all started
when I thought of creating a home cloud kitchen/bakery when she had a lot of
time on her hands due to the pandemic. COVID really made her thinks, so she opened
this after a lot of experimenting. Another aspect is that this pandemic holds
immense significance when it comes to deterioration of mental health due to
isolation and loneliness. Not only COVID but also being hyper aware of
everything around us because of the internet makes people really sad these days.
So when she started to think about opening a cafe, She really wanted to
incorporate the theme of mental health, it’s just to make people smile a little
brighter with the wholesomeness of food and games & activities that we will
provide.
She added that we truly believe that
food is something that brings people together. And good food can surely change
your mood. The cafe will cater to mental health in a variety of ways to promote
the importance of mental health in our lives. To spread awareness, we will
organize mental health workshops, especially creative therapy workshops such as
puppy therapy, bunny therapy, art therapy, music therapy, etc.
With her research in Psychology Angel
has devised some interesting psychological games. Visitors will be
provided 'mindfulness colouring sheets' as a part of art therapy, then there
would be the colour game, adapted from the Stroop effect, another game would be
a personality test game, another game would be a game of dares where we will
tell the customer to talk to another customer sitting on the table beside them.
All these interesting games will be part of the cafe experience while visitors
wait for their food.
Angel added that we will play the
games with only people who give us permission for these.
Angel further said that though we
live in a modern society; there is a stigma surrounding mental health we direly
need to de-stigmatize by spreading more awareness about it. At ‘Your Sugar
Daddy’ café we have tried to create a non-judgmental environment for people to
meet & share their own personal stories.
A USP of the cafe is that Angel is
doing all the baking herself as she has a passion for the same. Apart from an
array of bakery products the cafe offers Pan-Asian, Italian, Mexican &
Indian cuisine too. Quick eats Vada Pao are major attractions.
To truly enhance the spirit of the
café’ and give it a lively ambiance – the mental health cafe is all
painted white which has elaborate glass windows, rustic furniture and a dining
place. At the moment you enter the café, its eye-catching graffiti and murals
on the walls straightway grab your attention.
