The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
Aristotle
INDIVIDUAL
I am a seeker of awareness, writer, poet, dreamer, body worker, and a student of psychology. I am enriched by exploring the distance between being an individual and relating with the world. This is a relationship I have recently embraced.
I love to write stories, paint, read, and interact with children. Apart from individual and couples client sessions, from time to time, I take writing workshops for children and adults.
Since 2018, I am learning the language and wisdom of our bodies - and it astounds and moves me.
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Transformations with Awareness
I work with individuals (adults and teenagers) as well as with couples. Some of the issues I work with are anxiety, depression, addictions, relationship issues, body symptoms, developmental issues, existential angst, abandonment issues, and dreams.
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Who am I?
Ramanna Maharshi started his journey into oneness with this question. I remember his story as if I have seen him walk in a trance to Arunachala and spend years answering that question to himself.
My conscious inward journey started when I read Ramanna Maharshi’s story in 2014. His story stirred me so much that I couldn’t continue to get up every morning to go to work. It wasn’t long before when I quit my job, gave away my belongings, wrapped up my apartment, and started my version (of a 21st century woman, in a reasonably conservative society) of the walk towards my guru.
Looking back, it seems like I was guided by my intuition. And today, instead of writing fictional stories, everything that I write is a story. I tell stories through poems, sitting across a client, writing my thoughts, all the while constructing and reconstructing a story of life, relationships, purpose, passion, or even understanding love.
I am interested in the resilience of the human soul – in situations and incidents that build and break people. Every opportunity to break is an opportunity to re-evaluate the pieces that we need in our life.
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My Professional Journey
I have post-graduation in creative writing from London and started my professional life teaching English to refugees, asylum seekers, and jobseekers while working in a think-tank in London. These two streams – to be connected with the language and to contribute in the larger world, have formed the basis of the other career choices along the way. Over a course of two decades, I have worked at a magazine, newspaper, an NGO, multinational consulting firm, and a school.
Working with clients is like witnessing the glory of the human soul.
I bow to this privilege of walking with awareness together towards transformation.
I am a certified Somatic Experiencing Practitioner developed by Dr Peter Levine, which is a trauma healing method of renegotiating trauma stuck in the body. I also facilitate awareness through dream work and body symptom exploration with the depth psychology modality - Process-oriented Psychology developed by Dr Arnold Mindell.
Currently, I work online and offline, with appointments.
Together
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I can only give you what I have.
I can only show you what
I see, hear,
touch,
experience.
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This is a work in process aspect – to create something in the world. Some aspects in this dream are:
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To connect with families, which has undergone surgical trauma
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To create a support group for survivors of severe surgeries – cancer, tumors, accidents, paralysis, etc.
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To create a circle for children to share stories and poems.
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A reading circle where anyone can come in and share a couple of pages of what they are currently reading.
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A women’s circle to discuss the feminine
If any of this calls you, please do connect with me. Every single helping hand is valuable.