Breaking the Trauma Cycle: How Indian-Origin Women Execs & CEOs Can Break Free

You’ve battled the odds, you have a seat at the table. 

Great degrees, maybe a Tesla in the driveway, a successful career and the American dream you saw as a wide-eyed young girl.

Your teams look up to you as a mentor and you are the youngest at many tables. 

You are decisive, you can follow your gut, and you aren’t afraid to seek the hard answers and invest in getting help.

But do you find yourself still getting triggered by things you’ve already ‘healed’? 

Therapy

Executive Coaching

Spiritual Retreats

Vipassana

Books

It all feels like bits & pieces - like you go 2 steps ahead, things feel great for a little time but suddenly a trigger hits and you feel like you’ve gone 3 steps back. 

Today, can you relate with any or all of the below patterns?

Leisure Guilt:

You just can’t switch - be it on Friday evening or on the vacation you planned for the family. 

Even though it’s down-time, it somehow relates to being more productive - an attitude to make every second count. 

You feel like that hamster on a wheel and feel guilty or just off when you kick back and relax. (or resent it when your partner does)

Repeating Your Parents Behaviours with Your Own Kid

You swore you would parent differently, but when the triggers come, they come hard and fast. 

You find yourself, almost unconsciously, repeating the same patterns as your parents, and feeling guilty later.

Or you’re considering a child and afraid you may just end up emotionally scarring them because you haven’t fully healed yourself.

Too Good to Leave, Too Bad to Stay

Is it me or is it them? 

You've built a stellar career, yet there is a sense of unease.

At work, it could be:

• The white guy openly cut you off at the town hall and no one noticed
• Everyone thinks the boss is great but you end up having conflicts and worry about being seen as ‘difficult’.
• You take a bullet for your people but you feel they are ungrateful for all you do for them.

At home, it could be that your partnership functions smoothly, but lacks that spark you crave. 

You're torn between the comfort of the known and the promise of change, constantly wondering -

Is this as good as it gets, or am I settling for less than I deserve?

Generational Cultural Dynamics 

This often plays out as,

• Being on edge around family members and downplaying/hiding your success and wealth.

• Feeling lonely during weekend potlucks as an older parent and a successful woman, never really fitting in.
• Inability to take compliments after years of being compared to ‘that cousin’

Do you resonate with any of this ?

If you do, I invite you to…

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