I was born in India — the fourth of five children in a home that was, by the standards of the time, extraordinary.
My parents had a love marriage in the 1960s. In India. At a time when that was not simply unconventional — it was radical. My mother was Catholic. My father was an atheist. Two people from entirely different worlds who chose each other anyway.
That act of courage shaped everything I believe about love.
But growing up in that home also meant growing up with complexity. My father struggled with alcoholism. My mother became the leader of the household — holding everything together with a quiet determination I deeply admired and only later came to fully understand.
I had a good childhood. I was given freedom. I was given empowerment. I was loved. And I carried wounds I did not fully recognize until my early fifties — when the work I had been doing with others finally turned its mirror on me. That recognition changed everything. Not because it broke me. Because it freed me.
I have been a practicing Licensed Professional Counselor for 24 years. I started with children. I believed that reaching people early was the most powerful intervention possible. But I quickly learned something that would redirect the entire course of my career.
You cannot heal a child without healing the home they go back to every night.
So I moved to adults. And when I began working with adults, a pattern became impossible to ignore. The majority of the people sitting across from me were women — women in pain, women carrying more than their share, women whose suffering traced back, in almost every case, to their relationship with a man.
I believe that unaddressed childhood wounds become the invisible architects of your adult relationships. I believe that emotional dishonesty — the slow, habitual hiding of your true self in order to stay safe, stay loved, stay acceptable — is the root cause of most relational pain. Not conflict. Not incompatibility. Emotional dishonesty.
And I believe that returning to your most authentic self is not a luxury or a personal development project. It is a requirement. A non-negotiable condition for the kind of love, connection, and fulfillment that every human being deserves to experience.
If you are ready to understand yourself more deeply — in your relationships, in your patterns, in the way your history has quietly shaped your present — the Relational Language Quiz is the place to begin.
It is free. It is clinically grounded. And for many people, it is the first time they have ever had a clear, compassionate framework for understanding why love has felt so difficult — and what becomes possible when it no longer has to be.
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