Aarushi Vashishta
Body of Thought began as a question: what happens when we stop treating the body and the mind as separate conversations?I’m a Health Sciences and Psychology student pursuing medicine, with an interest in the intersection of biology, behaviour and public health. With roots in India and having grown up between Nigeria, Zambia and Canada, my perspective has been shaped by different cultures, environments, and ways of understanding health and the body. My work is guided by the belief that health is not only clinical, but deeply personal, shaped by identity, environment, culture, and memory.Through essays and reflections, I explore the stories where physiology becomes experience, and where medicine asks not only how people heal, but how they live. I’m especially interested in the emotional realities behind symptoms, the psychology beneath behavior, and the way statistics can often conceal the real human lives within them.Much of my thinking is rooted in women’s health, psychology, and public health, particularly the overlooked ways people learn to live inside their bodies. Body of Thought exists as a space for evidence + humanity. Writing grounded in science, shaped by curiosity and devoted to understanding what it means to be human.
— A.V.
2026