We’re not all cut from the same cloth.

Here’s a bit about me to find out if maybe you and I are more alike than we are apart.

My uniqueness as a coach

My mission to help Indians create the connection they crave with their parents by first creating genuine, true, inconvenient, unabashed love for themselves and for their parents even if their life and career choices are different that what their parents had hoped for them.

This is my mission because this is my lived experience.

You might be doing what your parents wanted you to do in life, and maybe now, you’re looking to do something new, and you think they won’t approve.  You think our society won’t approve.  It’s too unconventional.  What will people say?  I’m here to guide you in this process, as this is my lived experience.

You’re in your 30's or 40's and choosing a life partner.  Your parents have given up on their dream of you being married off in your 20's.  They stopped bringing it up.  You might feel guilt that you didn’t fulfill their wish.  You might have a longing for it to be ok that you are taking your time you want them to be ok with it too.  Yes, this is my lived experience too.

You’re choosing a life partner who isn’t exactly the same type of Indian as you are.  Or they may not be Indian at all - gasp!  You might see your parents as closed-minded, short-sighted.  You might ask, why can’t they see this person I love for who they are rather than their ethnicity or the region of India their parents are from.  Yes, this is my lived experience.

Like you, first, I did what all Indian parents want, and I became a professional, because that’s what Indians do.  In fact, my Dad said, Maneesha, you don’t work hard enough to become a doctor, so I became a doctor.  But then I wanted something more.  Once I grew up, I knew I had other talents, and I had my own mission, a mission different from what my parents had in mind for me.  Like you, I had a longing to pursue something more.  I have my parent’s support as I pursue my dreams.  What if this was possible for you too?

Like you, you are choosing not to have kids.  OMG!  What?!  No kids?  It’s true.   You have a life vision that doesn’t involve kids.  Your parents AND IN LAWS are trying to convince you that kids are important in life, that kids will take care of you later in life, kids give you purpose in life, best of all, that they, your parents and your in-laws, want and deserve grandkids.  You might be thinking, but I can take care of myself, that I have purpose already, and that I’m not here to fulfill your dreams only, I have my own visions, and then you might be asking, but is that being selfish, and isn’t it bad to be selfish?  Yes, this is also my lived experience.  I made my choice to not have kids.  Things changed several years later, but that story is for another day…

You might be living far from your parents, you might talk with them less than they want, you might make shorter visits than they prefer, and you may be doing this because it’s tough to be around your parents for too long.  You might be asking yourself, why, if I’m doing what I want, do I feel so guilty that I’m not doing what they want?  Yes, I know this one well too, also my lived experience.  But it IS possible to have what you want and not feel the guilt.

How do you know that I can help you?

I have lived through all these scenarios…

I’m a professional,

I have an MD,

I’m a Professional Certified Life Coach who went to The Life Coach School to pursue a second career in her 40's and spent a whole year in an intense training program.