Can you help others while you're still struggling yourself? This question haunts many of us: parents, therapists, teachers, managers, friends, and so on. In this episode, we explore the wounded healer archetype and discover why your struggles don't disqualify you from serving others. Through a coaching session with Irina, a mental health professional wrestling with her own breakup and friendship loss, we witness the transformation from either/or thinking to both/and consciousness. Learn about holding the tension of opposites, the mandorla as a symbol of integration, and how Arjuna's crisis in the Bhagavad Gita mirrors our own daily contradictions. This conversation offers a pathway from feeling torn apart by opposing forces to discovering wholeness in paradox.

About the host: Shagun Chopra is an individuation coach, speaker, and educator. Her unique approach combines Jungian depth psychology with ancient Vedic wisdom to create the ultimate personal transformation. She supports professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives in bringing their wildest dreams to life and leapfrogging their career, business, and relationships. To learn more, visit shagunchopra.com

Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

We've been taught that negative emotions are problems to fix: signs that we're not grateful enough, not evolved enough, not thinking positively enough. But what if anger, sadness, envy, and fear aren't obstacles at all? What if they're messengers carrying vital information about what we truly need and want? In this episode, we explore how the positive psychology movement, while revolutionary in many ways, can trap us in a rigid persona that cuts us off from our authentic self. The session features Maya, a new Indian immigrant in the US, who has everything she needs to build the life she wants: resources, opportunities, clear goals. But she can't take action. Through a powerful visualization, she discovers that her unconscious isn't sabotaging her. It's protecting her authentic self from external expectations. We discuss the function of negative emotions, the shadow side of positive psychology, and what it means to choose wholeness over perfection. This episode features insights from Jungian psychology, Vedic philosophy, and the myths of Persephone and Kali.

About the host: Shagun Chopra is an individuation coach, speaker, and educator. Her unique approach combines Jungian depth psychology with ancient Vedic wisdom to create the ultimate personal transformation. She supports professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives in bringing their wildest dreams to life and leapfrogging their career, business, and relationships. To learn more, visit shagunchopra.com

Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

Getting triggered by someone? Before you try to change them, consider this: your emotional reaction is revealing something hidden in your own shadow. In this episode, host Shagun Chopra explores how triggers are invitations to reclaim the parts of yourself you've been suppressing, and why that annoying behavior in others is actually a mirror for your unconscious.

Through a coaching session with Michelle, who fears becoming a single mother while pursuing her entrepreneurial dreams, we discover how a seemingly small trigger about her partner's sleep schedule reveals a much deeper pattern. Michelle uncovers how her relentless pressure to be hardworking, motivated, and always ahead of the game has pushed away her ability to relax, go with the flow, and laugh at mistakes. The moment she recognizes this split, energy floods back and possibilities open up.

Learn why triggers happen when you've locked psychic energy into maintaining a rigid persona, how to distinguish between helpful self-discipline and exhausting self-judgment, and the crucial difference between "I have to be this way" and "I choose to be this way." Discover Shagun's personal story of how her spiritual persona created an extreme aversion to meat that dissolved once she did her shadow work. If you find yourself constantly irritated by others or caught in harsh self-criticism, this episode will show you how to use those moments as doorways to freedom.

About the host: Shagun Chopra is an individuation coach, speaker, and educator. Her unique approach combines Jungian depth psychology with ancient Vedic wisdom to create the ultimate personal transformation. She supports professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives in bringing their wildest dreams to life and leapfrogging their career, business, and relationships. To learn more, visit shagunchopra.com

Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask