Shakila

Hi. Before we go on, what I’d really like you to know is that I LOVE the complexities of the human mind. I also love learning how to help others have more clarity in understanding themselves. I’m not a mental health professional, wellness guru, or a coach. That’s my strength. My vantage point is of a person who has seen the inner workings of the mental health system as a lawyer and advocate, and as someone who has walked alongside friends and loved ones facing mental health challenges. I don’t buy into labels, toxic positivity, or professional hustle culture. I am allergic to woo-woo and the status quo. My zone of genius is in geeking out practical insights rooted in real-world research that improves our lived human experience of reality. I am an extremely grounded and no nonsense person. I love nuanced and somewhat irreverent conversations about “serious” things. I find that in this mad, mad world truth often lives in paradox and it just takes us shifting our focus to the edge to see it.