Partners in Sublime: Elevating personal growth through psychospiritual wisdom

About Partners in Sublime: Elevating personal growth through psychospiritual wisdom

Welcome to Partners in Sublime, where we explore personal growth and self-actualization through a psychospiritual lens. Join your host, Shagun Chopra, on her quest to answer life's many questions, big and small, by tapping into the teachings of Depth psychology and Vedic philosophy. Each episode will feature illustrations of Chopra’s real-world experience coaching clients through their personal journeys. Listen weekly as Chopra skillfully blends her clinical psychology training and experience with wisdom traditions to share life-changing insights, authentic stories, and practical ways to experience the sublime.

Publisher

Shagun Chopra

Category

education

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

14 Jul 2025

Latest episode

6 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

27 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   6 Oct 2026

   How to feel good enough: Miranda struggles with feelings of inadequacy as a stay-at-home mom

   Feeling good enough is rarely a matter of doing more, and yet most of us keep answering the question that way, by adding another accomplishment, another role, another proof that we have earned our place. In this week's coaching session, "Miranda" brings that question into the room with a baby wrapped against her chest. She is a stay-at-home mom of three with an MBA, who opens LinkedIn and watches her classmates rise into the C suite, who catches herself thinking things about her children that she is ashamed to admit, and who wonders quietly how much of her own mother she is turning into, all while the feeling of not being enough follows her into her marriage, her body, and her sense of purpose. Joining me afterward to unpack what came up is Shefali Khokhar, a coach, my friend, and a former college classmate I had not seen in some twenty years, who traces her own path from an MBA and a decade in corporate HR into intuitive, image-based coaching and brings that lens to a conversation about anger, guilt, and what we pass down to our children. 00:00 Introduction 01:49 Shefali's journey: Conventional MBA corporate life to becoming a coach 10:22 Coaching session with Miranda: An unutilized MBA, unmetabolized anger, and feelings of MBA that crossover into her marriage as well 30:45 Coaching session breakdown: Contact with Self, parenting when angry, self-authorship ABOUT THE HOST: Shagun Chopra is an individuation coach, speaker, and educator. Her unique approach combines Jungian depth psychology with ancient Vedic wisdom to create the ultimate personal transformation. She supports professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives in bringing their wildest dreams to life and leapfrogging their career, business, and relationships. To learn more, visit shagunchopra.com (http://shagunchopra.com) ABOUT THE GUEST: Shefali is a Life, Leadership and Mental Well-Being Coach accredited at the PCC (Professional Certified Coach) level by the International Coaching Federation. Through modalities ranging from scientific evidence-based practices to more mystical and intuitive ones, she supports people in connecting to the part of themselves that “knows”, thus empowering them to live from alignment, and staying self-led in a world that can get noisy internally and externally. Her toolset includes mind, body, play, imagination, intuition, attention, and also Tarot for the curious. She can be found at shefalikhokhar.com (http://shefalikhokhar.com) JOIN THE SHOW: To ask a question or get coached on the show, visit shagunchopra.com/ask - all coaching clients are assigned a pseudonym and given the option to not share their video DISCLAIMER: Conversations on Partners in Sublime are for educational purposes only, and do not constitute medical or psychological advice or treatment. Please consult a licensed professional for any mental health concerns.

2. 

   22 Sept 2026

   What does staying comfortable really cost you? Neil's anxious to leave the one job that has been his whole career

   There is an ache that comes from staying somewhere long after it has stopped fitting, not because we lack ambition but because the familiar has its own gravity and leaving it means meeting a version of ourselves we have never had to know. In this week's coaching session, 'Neil' brings exactly that ache into the room. He has spent sixteen years at the same global consulting firm, has colleagues who feel more like family than coworkers, and is weighing a move into industry that is complicated further by the realities of visa sponsorship as an immigrant in the US. all while an anxiety he cannot quite name has quietly taken over decisions that used to feel simple. Joining me afterward to unpack what came up is Adam, a Jungian depth coach, yoga teacher, and founder of Inner Alchemy Collective, who brings his own experience straddling two cultures into a conversation about what happens when the thinking mind runs the whole show and the feeling function gets left behind. 00:00 Introduction 01:37 Adam's journey: Outer success, inner work, going beyond the uni-mind 09:42 Coaching session with Neil: Anxiety of leaving a familiar career and potentially getting it wrong 29:17 Coaching session breakdown: Overdeveloped thinking function, hero's journey, anxiety complex ABOUT THE HOST: Shagun Chopra is an individuation coach, speaker, and educator. Her unique approach combines Jungian depth psychology with ancient Vedic wisdom to create the ultimate personal transformation. She supports professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives in bringing their wildest dreams to life and leapfrogging their career, business, and relationships. To learn more, visit shagunchopra.com (http://shagunchopra.com) ABOUT THE GUEST: Adam Shehata is a Jungian depth coach, yoga teacher, and founder of Inner Alchemy Collective, a practice devoted to integrating psyche, body, and energy. Drawing from Jungian psychology, dreamwork, Active and Embodied Imagination, breathwork, yoga, and contemplative traditions, Adam helps people explore the unconscious patterns shaping how they lead, relate, create, and move through the world. He can be found at www.inneralchemycollective.co (http://www.inneralchemycollective.co) JOIN THE SHOW: To ask a question or get coached on the show, visit shagunchopra.com/ask - all coaching clients are assigned a pseudonym and given the option to not share their video DISCLAIMER: Conversations on Partners in Sublime are for educational purposes only, and do not constitute medical or psychological advice or treatment. Please consult a licensed professional for any mental health concerns.

3. 

   8 Sept 2026

   What makes addiction so hard to outrun? Sunshine self-medicates to deal with buried grief

   Addiction rarely looks the way we expect it to, and it is almost never really about the substance itself. It is what we reach for when we have not yet learned how to sit with pain that feels too big to hold alone, and it can show up as a drink, a drug, overworking, a relationship, or any behavior we cannot seem to stop even when we know it is hurting us. This week's session is with 'Sunshine,' a woman with years of recovery behind her and a real spiritual practice, who found herself reaching for something to self medicate after a miscarriage she had never allowed herself to fully grieve, and who moved through a disorienting few days afterward that she now describes with striking honesty and clarity. What emerges in the conversation is a split many people carry without naming it along with a part of her she calls her inner rebel that resists doing the very things she knows would help. Joining me for the debrief is Darren Lyons, a Jungian life coach and certified peer recovery supporter who has spent over three years in recovery from alcoholism after two decades of struggle, and who brings both his clinical training and his own dark night of the soul into a conversation about identity, conditioning, and what it actually takes to transcend addiction. 00:00 Introduction 01:39 Darren's journey: Two decades of alcohol addiction, sobriety, peer counseling 09:30 Coaching session with Sunshine: Self-medication after a deep loss and confronting the inner rebel 38:39 Coaching session breakdown: Addiction despite awareness, the role of identity, transcending the human v divine conflict ABOUT THE HOST: Shagun Chopra is an individuation coach, speaker, and educator. Her unique approach combines Jungian depth psychology with ancient Vedic wisdom to create the ultimate personal transformation. She supports professionals, entrepreneurs, and creatives in bringing their wildest dreams to life and leapfrogging their career, business, and relationships. To learn more, visit shagunchopra.com (http://shagunchopra.com) ABOUT THE GUEST: Darren Lyons is a Certified Jungian Life Coach, an Addiction/Mental Health Recovery Supporter, and a Chemical Dependency Counselor Assistant (CDCA). He has an MFA in Creative Writing and an MA in International Affairs. He's held positions in behavioral health, academia, private industry, defense contracting, and government service. He can be found at lyonslifecoaching.com (http://lyonslifecoaching.com) JOIN THE SHOW: To ask a question or get coached on the show, visit shagunchopra.com/ask - all coaching clients are assigned a pseudonym and given the option to not share their video DISCLAIMER: Conversations on Partners in Sublime are for educational purposes only, and do not constitute medical or psychological advice or treatment. Please consult a licensed professional for any mental health concerns.

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