In this YouTube interview, Elena from ACERO and Nisha Modi explore people-pleasing in the workplace, how it shows up in the body, and how it leads to burnout, resentment, and unhealthy power dynamics.In this YouTube video, Nisha Mody reflects on whether self-expression is selfish in a time of climate crisis, genocide, and global instability, and why she believes it’s actually essential.

This conversation is for anyone who over-gives at work, struggles to say no, feels responsible for everyone else, or feels stuck in a workplace where they’re constantly abandoning themselves to survive.

In this YouTube video, Nisha Mody reflects on whether self-expression is selfish in a time of climate crisis, genocide, and global instability, and why she believes it’s actually essential.

This video is for anyone who feels torn between creating and caring, or guilty for wanting to express themselves in a world that feels like it’s falling apart.

In this YouTube video, Nisha Mody, a liberatory life coach and trauma-informed facilitator, explores whether mandatory workplace trainings are actually trauma-informed based on survey responses and her experience working with libraries and organizations.

This video is for anyone involved in workplace training, HR, leadership, or organizational culture who wants to create more humane, trauma-informed learning environments.

In this YouTube video, Nisha Mody, life coach for liberatory dreamers, shares the story of how she became a life coach after a long, nonlinear career path that included many different professions and life transitions.

This video is for you if you’ve ever had a nonlinear career path, struggled with career doubt, or felt like your work and life were slowly leading you toward something deeper and more integrated.

In this YouTube video, Nisha Mody shares why she is finally claiming the word “healer” and what that means to her, after years of resisting the label and holding herself back from fully stepping into her work.

This video is for anyone who feels like they’ve been holding back their gifts, afraid of their power, or ready to step more fully into who they are.

As someone who works around wellness and care and social justice, I hear a lot of rhetoric about what we “deserve”.

• You deserve to live life on your terms.

• I deserve respect and care.

• We deserve healthcare and housing and basic human rights!

I even use it in one of my subject lines for those who opt-in to receive for my new free resource, 7 Tools to Cultivate Revolutionary Relationships in a Dystopian World (get it, it’s awesome!) 

I had never questioned the use of this word until one of my teachers, James-Olivia Chu Hillman, told me “deserve implies merit”.

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Do you have to earn the right to live life on your terms? Do I need to earn respect and care? Do we have to work/earn/achieve to have our basic needs yet?

Whether it’s not being able to reach my car brakes as I’m driving out of control like I’m in a cartoon or trying to find my house or car or anything that can get me to safety, not enoughness is a theme of my dreams. It isn’t surprising that it’s at the core of my mother wound as well…and yet! I’ve had these dreams for years, and it wasn’t until a few months ago that I put these two themes together 🤦🏾‍♀️ I assumed my anxiety was about the anxieties of daily life and not being able to get what I wanted done, like so many of us in the throes of capitalistic and patriarchal productivity demands.

Time itself is a mother of a concept to imagine, literally and figuratively. Between the abstract and the everyday, the quantum and the deadlines, the stillness and the urgency, we tend to just look at what’s next on our calendar and *maybe* see if we can squeeze in a meditation or a moment of stillness.

I wrote what I didn’t realize would be a love poem, what I didn’t realize would help me redefine the erotic, what I didn’t realize could be so healing…

The other night, Daniel Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You in the End” came up on my Spotify, and I was IMMERSED. This song has been covered by many artists including Beck, Wilco, The Flaming Lips, Crybaby, and Headless Heroes.

I just started playing the song while I’m writing now because I love to cry when I write (lolsob).

“What was your first memory of self-judgment?” the healer asked. The answer came to me so quickly. I was in Sedona, AZ for a retreat when I was received this question. I sat in a circle with three other people and the healer. He worked with us one-on-one, and I was last. After witnessing his power and intuition with the others, I was excited, but a bit scared, about what he had for me.

It’s no surprise that two of the most cited books about trauma and healing, The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel Van Der Kolk and My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies by Resmaa Menakem, have references to the body in their title.

I have new grief. My dad died 10 years ago today in his ancestral home of India. Ten years later, my tears escalate when I think of his sudden death. This new grief surprises me, and it reminds me that my healing story is a love story.