Shruti Seth: I am happy to have my mornings back as my daughter has resumed her school

Actress Shruti Seth recently completed a schedule of her upcoming movie in Bhopal. We spoke with her about her career, her daughter resuming school and why she chose to do a course of emotional intelligence.Just like a lot of actors, Shruti is also doing a few OTT projects these days, but she says that it is equally challenging. “Unlike television shows these projects start and finish within a fixed period of time. But like last year amid the pandemic I was shooting for a project in Ooty. My daughter Alina at that time was doing virtual schooling, so she was in Ooty with my husband and we all could be together. We could spend some quality time together. I worked and they used to be in the hotel,” she says.Shruti takes a sigh a relief when answering how she feels about her daughter going back to school. “It is so nice! I think all the kids and parents needed to take a break from each other. We were kind of getting into each other’s spaces. She was little so she was happy that both her parents were around her. The pandemic did give an unusual type of time to the families to be together. But I also feel that it stole two years of my daughter’s childhood. The kids adapted brilliantly but I can see the difference in her now that she is in a physical classroom with her friends next to her. She was so thrilled to go back to school. I am happy to have my mornings back where I can do whatever I want to do,” she laughs.The actress completed a course in emotional intelligence and after finishing her training she became an emotional intelligence coach. Now she is doing another one in art based therapy which will eventually make her an art based practitioner. The actress says that it has helped her mental well being as well. “The pandemic presented us all with that kind of time where we could take up courses like these. During pandemic we realised that apart from bookish knowledge basic intelligence is required to live a life. The whole idea is to practice all this and while taking a session you participate as well. During our classes also we do it on our own first then we take it to the people. Its quite fascinating because in healing other you heal yourself as well,” she says.