Chautari Life Coaching

🌿 In Pause Circle, one phrase we hear often is:

"I needed this."

🤍 A space to pause.
🤍 A space to be heard.
🤍 A space to listen and learn from one another's stories, questions, and lived experiences.

What began as a conversation around self-care grew into something more... a circle of women across ages, professions, and seasons of life sharing wisdom, challenges, and perspectives.

Over the past months, we've explored self-care, purpose, finances, womanhood, and the questions that shape our lives.

🌱 With every circle, we are reminded how much we grow when we listen to one another.

💬 DM to join the next circle.

📺 Earlier this year, I joined Dr. Moushumi Chakraborty on Doordarshan Meghalaya's Ka Rympei, a women's programme, for a conversation on life coaching and women's emotional well-being.

✨ Some themes we explored:

🏗️ Life coaching and therapy both support growth and change, and there can often be overlap between the two. Life coaching is often more architectural, helping people build towards where they want to go. Therapy can be more archaeological, helping people uncover, understand, and heal experiences that continue to shape the present.

🤝 Women's emotional well-being is often shaped by systemic realities, not just individual circumstances - meaningful change requires awareness, conversation, and shared responsibility within families and communities.

🌿 The pause matters - rest, reflection, and emotional awareness are not luxuries. Naming and understanding what we feel helps us respond with greater clarity, resilience, and intention.

🙏 My thanks to DD Meghalaya for the opportunity and for creating space for conversations such as these.

📱 Watch the full conversation here:
https://youtu.be/Jtdkz1SLjOY?si=TwTbY3ensFvlGKV1

You can also access it through the QR code in the final slide. I hope you'll find something that sparks reflection, conversation, or a perspective.

🪻Being acknowledged for the part you played in someone’s beginning carries a quiet kind of joy.

👉🏽 Grateful to Kima Hmar for this acknowledgment and for trusting me in those early conversations as was taking its first steps in South Africa.
To have contributed a bit of thought to the brand name “Swadgatam,” and now to witness what it is becoming, is deeply rewarding.

👨🏽‍🍳 What Kima is building through Swadgatam is meaningful... creating spaces of connection, culture, and belonging through food.

Honoured to have played a small part in its story.

🌸 Want to make your mother feel special this Mother’s Day?

Here are a few thoughts from mothers sharing what honour looks like to them… ☕🤍

And if you are a mother,
how would you want to be honoured? 🌷

✨ Sharing my first interview as a guest speaker on women’s emotional well-being with Doordarshan Meghalaya, in conversation with Dr. Moushumi Chakraborty.

🌱 I’m still learning and growing in this space, but I’m grateful I showed up and said yes.

🌸 Hope this conversation helps us pause and reflect a little more on the emotional lives and well-being of women.

✅ Would love for you to watch, share your thoughts in the comments, and pass it on if it resonates.

👉🏼 More such thoughts and conversations in the future-stay tuned and follow.

In Conversation with Shikha Sinchury, Life Coach Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

🌿 For Miranda, the day might end with quiet time and journaling. For Geeta, it might end with chopping vegetables for the next day - needing just a little silence and no interruptions. Both need care, but the shape of that CARE looks very different.

🤝 This blog post reflects on how the idea of “self-care” is often framed in today’s economy - equated with spa days, skincare routines, vacations, and curated calm. While these aren’t wrong, they can slowly turn care into a LUXURY and an individual achievement.

💬 In cultures like ours, care is not something we accomplish alone. It is deeply relational, shaped within families, communities, shared responsibilities, and shared rhythms. Emotional well-being is not just a personal project – it is something we hold together.
Self-care becomes “we-care” (shared care)

🌱 Do read, and feel free to share your thoughts, reflections, and personal experiences. You may want to pass it on to a friend too.

✨ Let’s be people who engage in conversations that truly matter.

👉🏼 https://chautari.in/life-coaching/the-dilemma-of-self-care-in-our-society/

The Dilemma of Self-Care in Our Society - Chautari The Dilemma of Self-Care in Our Society The word self-care often sounds like a hoax. “What self-care?” someone asks. “That’s a Western thing,” another says. Social media, meanwhile, is full of advice. Do’s and don’ts. Reminders that you cannot pour from an empty cup. Counter-reminders ...