Finding Your Voice: Empowering Women of Color to Save Themselves with Poonam Bhuchar

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Finding Your Voice: Empowering Women of Color to Save Themselves with Poonam Bhuchar

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In this episode Poonam and I, talk about:

[00:02:00] The SAFE method.

[00:16:10] Seeking a better way to live life.

[00:34:31] Trusting your gut and self.

Transcript

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About this episode

In this podcast episode, the guest is Poonam Bhuchar, a speaker, advocate, author, and lawyer who focuses on overcoming trauma and emotional pain. Poonam shares her personal experiences and the development of her SAFE method.

Poonam also discusses the role of cultural expectations and the pressure to conform in her own life, growing up in a conservative Indian family in London. She highlights the need for women of color to find their voice, empower themselves, and break free from societal expectations. Poonam shares her own journey of taking control of her life and not deferring her dreams, especially after experiencing a health scare that made her realize the importance of living in the present.

Poonam encourages women of color to find their voice, empower themselves, and prioritize their own well-being. She shares her own experiences and the lessons she has learned, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and trusting one's own intuition. By doing so, women can break free from societal expectations, pursue their dreams, and live a fulfilling life.

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The SAFE method.

Poonam: “It's basically a four-pronged method to just take a breath and stop. And S stands for stop and acknowledge you're in pain. The A is acknowledge and accept your responsibility in where you are. The F is forgiveness. I talk about three types of forgiveness and I don't forgive for any altruistic reason. I forgive for a very selfish reason. I don't want to be captured by my past and keep playing that video back in my head. The E is embrace, embrace the whole of yourself. We're all great at accepting compliments and the great things about ourselves, but how many of us accept the whole of ourselves? And that is our flaws and mistakes, our journey and everything that we've been through. The second type of forgiveness I talk about is forgiveness of the universe. The third type of forgiveness that I found the most difficult is forgiveness of oneself.”

Seeking a better way to live life.

Poonam: “I just looked at my life one day and I was just like, I don't want to live life like this anymore. I tried therapy, I was tired, I was just fed up of the way my life had just taken a course. And I remember sitting there saying that there has to be a better way to live life. I have not been put on this universe to suffer, none of us are. And somewhere inside of me, I was seeking answers. And that day, December 31st of 2011, I decided to just take responsibility for everything that had happened to me, stop playing the victim and vow to myself that I am never going to let myself stoop so low in life again. I have, it is a beautiful life. It is a gift and I want to live it. So I went on a spiritual journey. And when I started to speak about it more, it was like, well, how did you do this? So I sat back and I'm like, well, really? These were the steps and I came up with the acronym SAFE.”

Trusting your gut and self.

Poonam: "I spent four decades of my life not listening to my gut. And when you honeymoon with yourself and you know who you are, you listen to that gut more than anything in the world. I bought a beautiful house back in 2021. A year later, I decided to sell it. I had this voice in me. I even heard a price. The realtor's like, you're nuts. In two days that house sold.”

Memorable Quotes

00:06:37 - "And in every kind of pain, in any kind of trauma, there is always a lesson that we learn about ourselves if we look carefully enough."

00:10:05 - "forgiving others frees you."

00:21:33 - "Nobody's coming to save you. You have to save yourself."

00:34:31 - "Find yourselves worthy to take the time to take care of yourself and find yourselves worthy to trust your gut and who you are."

About Poonam

Poonam Bhuchar is a practicing attorney for over 23 years, is a family mediator, life coach, author and a speaker on overcoming trauma and emotional pain in order to live a happy, fulfilled life. Born and raised in London, she immigrated to the United States at 21 and experienced a multitude of painful challenges in her life such as sexual assault, abuse, and the aftermath and cultural humiliation of divorces, health issues and financial loss. After running a successful legal practice, she now spends most of her time speaking and coaching on this subject. Throughout her journey, she developed the SAFE Method to help others acknowledge, discuss, and grow from their emotional pain without stigma or judgement. Her book "SAFE from the pain, Out of the Darkness into a Life That’s Free, Happy, and Good" has won multiple awards in the self-help category including a five star review from Literary Titan.

Connect with Poonam:

Website: https://emotionallysafe.com/

Retreats: https://emotionallysafe.com/retreats/

Email: [e-mail]

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/poonam-bhuchar-19961632/

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