Finding What’s Important with Shivali Beakta

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In this episode Shivali candidly talks about navigating our way through uncertainty by creating emotional space that is responsive and not reactive.

How we celebrate the full spectrum of our identity; from simple joys, foibles to sitting with discomfort is “where we can find the pull, the momentum to take us forward in life.”

Shivali Beakta is a management consultant, life coach and hosts the podcast, Unbox Yourself. She lives in New York City.

QUOTE HIGHLIGHTS

SHIVALI:  “As kids, we're socialized into the world for a good reason, we're taught what's right... wrong. What's good. What's bad just to keep us safe. . but I think ...that we get to a point in life, maybe in our late teens, early twenties, where it starts to restrict... how we want to show up in the world. And so we have to unlearn certain behaviors, unlearn a way of thinking to then become whoever we're supposed to become.”

SHIVALI:   "...you're in uncharted territory...You don't know if you have it in you to navigate your way through that. But surprisingly, we all do...We may struggle through it, but we'll find a way to navigate. And I think that the idea of the whole unraveling...that moment of something happens, something breaks down and you feel this need to find a way back to yourself..."

SHIVALI:   “I see... in my mind... a huge boardroom. There's a table, multiple chairs. And  I'm the chairman of the board and all the voices in my head are my board of directors. ... Everybody has a seat at the table and...  for a very long time, I didn't allow certain emotions, certain identities in the room, especially...the Shivali, who's sad, the Shivali who feels weak. Yeah- Not allowed ....but now everybody has a seat at the table, which means they can say whatever they want, but I get to make the decision.”

PAT:  "... the word “uncertainty,” ... I've always thought of it as tap dancing on quicksand... if you stand there, you're gonna sink....But the idea that uncertainty is not... something we should dread ... Once we figure that out, it opens that beautiful gray area of contradiction and change. And  it just seems to allow some breathing space for discovery." 

LINKS

https://www.shivalibeakta.com/

https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unbox-yourself/id1608846133

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