by SaraSwati Shakti | Aug 6, 2025 | Change, Leadership, Wholeness
Victory comes in many shapes and sizes. Yesterday, while on a work break, I took a walk by the waterside. Admiring the weather after several days of precipitous rain, the type that gets into your system and needs to be shaken out again by exercise and sunshine, I was...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Aug 6, 2023 | Change, Development, Leadership, Wholeness
I have been pondering lately, and having discussions broadly, about a topic that has been circulating, as we are nearing the next referendum, and a potential new turning, in history making. A future building opportunity that we are taking. We are at another...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Mar 25, 2022 | Change, Development, Psychotherapy, Wellbeing
Many years ago I was asked how I reconcile a combination of positive psychology and depth psychotherapy as part of the preferences of modalities I enjoy using. I found this a curious question as it suggested that I could only operate in one camp, or another. Yet, for...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Feb 2, 2022 | Change, Coaching, Leadership
Over many coaching and executive leadership years, some leadership qualities have continued to surface consistently. And as I wade through my mandala collection of drawings that emerged over the more recent years of coaching, two snapshot picture stories stand out as...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Jan 4, 2022 | Change, Mindfulness, Personal Development, Self Care, Wellbeing
The year is brand new. And it offers a changed view, if you are inclined to do. To focus on Looking Up, and composing an improvement on the last one, for a better 2022. And to prepare for your new Looking Up view, you may choose to set a mood word or two as a recovery...
by SaraSwati Shakti | Oct 3, 2021 | Change, Self Care, Self-Leadership
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us ~ Joseph Campbell. These words often form the pretext of discussions I have had with coachees as they experience life circumstances that have presented...