Choosing Your Truth Over Your Family (and Getting Both) with Shiv | Another Way Through (Ep. 03)

What does it actually look like to choose yourself when it might cost you belonging?

In this episode of Another Way Through, I’m joined by my dear friend Shivani for an honest conversation about boundaries, queerness, family systems, and the lifelong unlearning of trading authenticity for acceptance.

We talk about:
✨ Leaving a teaching job mid-year (and why that choice was an act of integrity)
✨ “Breaking up" with your parents in order to build a healthier relationship with them
✨ Being the only out person in a big family—and refusing to shrink
✨ The difference between being fully seen vs. being fully you
✨ Pole dancing as embodied healing: consent, confidence, community, and reclamation

The question that keeps bringing us back to ourselves: What’s the alternative?

If you’ve ever felt torn between your truth and the version of you your family expects—this one is for you. Even trough the challenging times, the screaming and the tears, a beautiful life is possible on the other side. This is your reminder, there's always another way through.

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Key quote: “Just because my parents can’t accept all of me, doesn’t mean I don’t get to be all of me.”

I work with clients who are healing complex family dynamics and learning how to set boundaries from a place of self-trust, not guilt.

Many of the people I support are the first—or only—ones in their families doing this work, and are looking for a way to love their families now, without losing themselves in the process.

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