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

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

Feeling stuck and unable to move forward even though you know you're meant for more? In this episode, host Shagun Chopra reveals why confusion is actually your ego's way of keeping you trapped in old patterns, and why having a clear vision is essential for creating the life you want.

Through a coaching session with Serena, a highly educated professional who can't seem to build a stable career despite her obvious potential, we explore how the absence of vision doesn't keep you in place but actually pulls you backwards into default programming. Serena discovers that her inability to imagine her future stems from deep blocks around worthiness, internalized voices from childhood teachers who doubted her abilities, and unconscious beliefs about money that keep her stuck in unfulfilling jobs.

Learn why visualizing your ideal life is not wishful thinking but essential co-creation with the universe, how childhood experiences shape what you believe you deserve, and the Vedic concept of gunas that explains why you must take action before you can find clarity. Discover the difference between letting your vision guide your choices versus waiting for external validation to tell you what's possible. If you've been too busy or overwhelmed to imagine what you really want, this episode will show you why that's the very thing keeping you stuck.

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