How to serve while struggling: Ir...

How to serve while struggling: Irina questions her competence as a mental health professional amid personal crises

Partners in Sublime: Elevating personal growth through psych... by Shagun Chopra

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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 ... 

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Self ImprovementPersonal DevelopmentDepth PsychologySpiritualityVedic PhilosophyCoachingCarl JungFearVisualizationShadowRelationshipsTriggersArchetypesWounded HealerHolding oppositesParadoxContradictionMental health professionalsTherapist strugglesImposter syndromeChiron mythRobert JohnsonProjectionBhagavad GitaArjunaMahagunasGriefCaregivingVedantaAnalytical PsychologyJames HollisInner conflict