Partners in Sublime: Elevating personal growth through psychospiritual wisdom

Shagun Chopra
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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.

  1. Why don't we feel like ourselves? Miley is drowning in the mental load of new motherhood

    5 DAYS AGO

    Why don't we feel like ourselves? Miley is drowning in the mental load of new motherhood

    What does it actually feel like to not feel like yourself? Not the dramatic breakdown version, not the crisis that announces itself clearly, but the quiet, persistent sense that the person you used to be has become strangely inaccessible. In this episode, we sit with that experience without rushing toward resolution. Through a live coaching session with Miley, a new mother navigating the overwhelming mental load of early motherhood, we explore what happens in the messy middle of a major identity transition - when the old self has loosened its grip and the new one hasn't yet arrived. We look at the concept of liminal space, why our culture's favorite tools for managing motherhood stress keep us stuck at the surface of our experience, and what it actually takes to move through a threshold rather than around it. 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 Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

    1 hr
  2. Am I Actually Good Enough? Tony in anxious about making a good impression at his new job

    24 MAR

    Am I Actually Good Enough? Tony in anxious about making a good impression at his new job

    Most of us have asked ourselves some version of this question, whether it shows up as "did I respond fast enough?" or "am I pulling my weight at home?" or just that low hum of not quite measuring up that follows us into even our best moments. In this episode, we sit with that question seriously, tracing it from Alfred Adler's inferiority complex through Brené Brown's hustle for worthiness to the Vedantic teaching that dissolves the question entirely. Then we go into a live coaching session with Tony, a tech professional who is days away from starting his dream job and already consumed by anxiety about whether he can show up fully at work while still being present for his wife and two-year-old at home. What happens in this session is quietly remarkable. Tony doesn't solve his anxiety. He listens to it. And what his inner world offers in response is the last thing anyone, including Tony, expected. 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 Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

    1hr 20min
  3. How to resolve an identity conflict: Retired military vet Max cannot put his old ways aside in a new career

    10 MAR

    How to resolve an identity conflict: Retired military vet Max cannot put his old ways aside in a new career

    When we transition into a new identity, do we have to leave the old one behind? And what is the difference between our identity and what we present to the world? Max spent twenty years in the military before stepping into the world of mental health care, and four years later, he is still caught between two versions of himself. In this episode, we explore the psychology of identity conflict through the lens of Jungian analytical psychology, looking at how the ego constructs identity, how the persona and shadow work together to create internal splits, and what it actually takes to move toward a more integrated sense of self. Through a live coaching session with Max, we witness what happens when a neglected part of the psyche finally gets to speak, and what it has to say is both surprising and deeply moving. If you have ever felt pulled between who you were and who you are becoming, this episode is for you. 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 Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

    1hr 1min
  4. How toxic positivity traps us: Maya moved abroad for opportunity but finds herself paralyzed by choice

    24 FEB

    How toxic positivity traps us: Maya moved abroad for opportunity but finds herself paralyzed by choice

    We've been taught that negative emotions are problems to fix: signs that we're not grateful enough, not evolved enough, not thinking positively enough. But what if anger, sadness, envy, and fear aren't obstacles at all? What if they're messengers carrying vital information about what we truly need and want? In this episode, we explore how the positive psychology movement, while revolutionary in many ways, can trap us in a rigid persona that cuts us off from our authentic self. The session features Maya, a new Indian immigrant in the US, who has everything she needs to build the life she wants: resources, opportunities, clear goals. But she can't take action. Through a powerful visualization, she discovers that her unconscious isn't sabotaging her. It's protecting her authentic self from external expectations. We discuss the function of negative emotions, the shadow side of positive psychology, and what it means to choose wholeness over perfection. This episode features insights from Jungian psychology, Vedic philosophy, and the myths of Persephone and Kali. 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 Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

    53 min
  5. How to serve while struggling: Irina questions her competence as a mental health professional amid personal crises

    10 FEB

    How to serve while struggling: Irina questions her competence as a mental health professional amid personal crises

    Can you help others while you're still struggling yourself? This question haunts many of us: parents, therapists, teachers, managers, friends, and so on. In this episode, we explore the wounded healer archetype and discover why your struggles don't disqualify you from serving others. Through a coaching session with Irina, a mental health professional wrestling with her own breakup and friendship loss, we witness the transformation from either/or thinking to both/and consciousness. Learn about holding the tension of opposites, the mandorla as a symbol of integration, and how Arjuna's crisis in the Bhagavad Gita mirrors our own daily contradictions. This conversation offers a pathway from feeling torn apart by opposing forces to discovering wholeness in paradox. 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 Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

    51 min
  6. How to access our inner resources: Mari returns to her rural hometown with limited pregnancy support

    27 JAN

    How to access our inner resources: Mari returns to her rural hometown with limited pregnancy support

    What if the inner resources you're looking for aren't limited to yourself? What if they come from something far older and more powerful than anything in your personal history? Most of us reach for familiar strategies when we need strength: positive thinking, past experiences, coping mechanisms we've developed over the years. But host Shagun Chopra reveals why these personal resources have limits, and introduces a completely different source of wisdom that exists within every human being regardless of their individual story. Shagun coaches Mari who recently returned to her rural hometown and is a few weeks away from giving birth. As Mari grapples with the lack of pregnancy supports in her external environment, Shagun helps her connect to her innate resources. Mari's struggle with feeling like a victim, her grief over losing the structured life she had built, and her fear of the unknown all shift dramatically when she discovers she's been carrying the answer within her all along. This episode will challenge everything you think you know about where your strength comes from. You'll learn about psychological patterns you inherited at birth, why certain emotions seem to "take over" without warning, and how to consciously access a source of guidance that billions of humans have tapped into throughout history. The concepts are deep, potentially life-changing, and worth revisiting multiple times. 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 Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

    1hr 12min
  7. What our triggers reveal: Michelle wants to be a mother but is unsure of her husband's support

    13 JAN

    What our triggers reveal: Michelle wants to be a mother but is unsure of her husband's support

    Getting triggered by someone? Before you try to change them, consider this: your emotional reaction is revealing something hidden in your own shadow. In this episode, host Shagun Chopra explores how triggers are invitations to reclaim the parts of yourself you've been suppressing, and why that annoying behavior in others is actually a mirror for your unconscious. Through a coaching session with Michelle, who fears becoming a single mother while pursuing her entrepreneurial dreams, we discover how a seemingly small trigger about her partner's sleep schedule reveals a much deeper pattern. Michelle uncovers how her relentless pressure to be hardworking, motivated, and always ahead of the game has pushed away her ability to relax, go with the flow, and laugh at mistakes. The moment she recognizes this split, energy floods back and possibilities open up. Learn why triggers happen when you've locked psychic energy into maintaining a rigid persona, how to distinguish between helpful self-discipline and exhausting self-judgment, and the crucial difference between "I have to be this way" and "I choose to be this way." Discover Shagun's personal story of how her spiritual persona created an extreme aversion to meat that dissolved once she did her shadow work. If you find yourself constantly irritated by others or caught in harsh self-criticism, this episode will show you how to use those moments as doorways to freedom. 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 Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

    1hr 16min
  8. Why having a vision is important: Serena is stuck in a stop-gap job and can't realize her potential

    26/12/2025

    Why having a vision is important: Serena is stuck in a stop-gap job and can't realize her potential

    Feeling stuck and unable to move forward even though you know you're meant for more? In this episode, host Shagun Chopra reveals why confusion is actually your ego's way of keeping you trapped in old patterns, and why having a clear vision is essential for creating the life you want. Through a coaching session with Serena, a highly educated professional who can't seem to build a stable career despite her obvious potential, we explore how the absence of vision doesn't keep you in place but actually pulls you backwards into default programming. Serena discovers that her inability to imagine her future stems from deep blocks around worthiness, internalized voices from childhood teachers who doubted her abilities, and unconscious beliefs about money that keep her stuck in unfulfilling jobs. Learn why visualizing your ideal life is not wishful thinking but essential co-creation with the universe, how childhood experiences shape what you believe you deserve, and the Vedic concept of gunas that explains why you must take action before you can find clarity. Discover the difference between letting your vision guide your choices versus waiting for external validation to tell you what's possible. If you've been too busy or overwhelmed to imagine what you really want, this episode will show you why that's the very thing keeping you stuck. 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 Join the show: To ask a question or get coached on the show (anonymously or otherwise), visit shagunchopra.com/ask

    52 min
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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.

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