Denying Your Desires And Your Dreams

Shirani M. Pathak
3 min readApr 10, 2022
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Have you ever had a desire so deep in your heart that you kept putting off?

Maybe the time wasn’t right.

Maybe you didn’t feel like you could do it.

Maybe you thought, “Who am I to do it?”

Or maybe it was “What will other people say or think?”

Or “I’m not trained in this.”

Or “I’m not worthy of this.”

Yet, that desire is still there, deep inside, and it’s becoming harder and harder to ignore.

You keep shoving it down, but it keeps bubbling up.

The entire time you feel more and more of a longing every time it arises.

My beautiful friend, when will you give yourself permission?

When will you allow yourself to take the leap?

When will you decide to live your dreams?

Trust me, I’ve been there. It can be scary AF to take ownership of our desires and our dreams. To give ourselves permission to live the life we envision in our hearts.

And I’ve also been there as it relates to feeling so empty inside because of it.

For YEARS now I have known that I’m over being a therapist.

For YEARS now all I’ve wanted to do is lead women through a deeply transformational program where they get to let go of all their false narratives so that they can become the women they’re meant to be.

For YEARS now I’ve been doing the safe thing — 1:1 work.

And for YEARS now I have been burnt out and pretending that I enjoy doing the whole 1:1 therapy and coaching thing.

I cannot tell you how exhausted I felt, how unfulfilled I felt, and how much I kept trying to force myself to love it. Lying to myself the entire time and feeling dead inside.

Likewise, I cannot tell you how alive I felt, how I felt like I could finally breathe, and how much flow I could feel as my fingers typed out the words announcing The Sanctuary (I did not consciously announce it, the words actually literally came pouring out of me as I typed out an IG post).

I spent that whole weekend envisioning the transformation the 9 women who join me are going to experience. I felt the most powerful and grounded that I have felt in really a long, long time.

That’s when I knew, there’s no going back. This is what’s here for me now and there is no other option.

I am no longer offering individual 1:1 work with either new therapy or coaching clients.

The only way to work with me is in The Sanctuary, an intimate 9 month in depth group coaching and mentorship program with me and 9 other women.

We begin April 22, 2022.

Apply now to join me → APPLY NOW

Your dreams and I are here inside The Sanctuary waiting for you. 💖💕

Shirani M. Pathak teaches humans in leadership how to experience amazing relationships and live the life of their dreams by letting go of the judgment, criticism, imposter syndrome, and feelings of inadequacy that get in the way.

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To learn more about The Sanctuary, a private 9 month in-depth mentorship and transformational group coaching program to help you become the woman you you’re meant to be, visit this link → The Sanctuary

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Shirani M. Pathak

✨Life Coach + Corporate Consultant Teaching Communication + Relationship Skills ✨ Join me! https://www.fierceauthenticity.com