My Path to Holistic Life Coaching: A Personal Transformation - Abhisshek Om Chakravarty | Holistic Life Coach & Mindfulness Mentor

What inspired you to become a holistic life coach?

This question didn't merely stop me in my tracks. It confronted me with a reality I had been glossing over for decades. I wasn't lacking in knowledge, far from it. I had spent much of my life providing advice to others. I had counseled over five hundred people over a decade. I had sat with them in quiet and in tempests. I had helped them through heartbreak, career crises, self-doubt, and spiritual dead ends. And still, that question haunted me. It pierced straight through the illusion that clarity equals change. It doesn’t. Knowing is one thing. Living it is another.

I realised that I, too, was holding back. There was a strange kind of restlessness within me—not loud, not wild, but persistent. Similar to the hum of a worn-out fridge that is only heard when all else becomes still. My life, on paper, appeared okay. I was married, had a home, a regular routine, and a satisfactory career. But there was always this tugging feeling that something inside wasn't right. Some mornings, I'd wake up and feel my spirit rooted. I'd meditate, write in my journal, sit in silence. But by the afternoon, I would be drawn into worldly cares, and by the evening, I'd be disconnected, as if I had lived three separate lives in one day.

It led me to question—if I, a relatively self-aware and introspective person, felt so fragmented, what were others experiencing? Why were people coming back to the same patterns, after years of self-work? Why did mental clarity not always translate to emotional healing? Why did spiritual awakenings sometimes shatter other areas of their lives? I needed to know.

But answers didn't come from books. They came from breakdowns. Mine arrived in 2017, when I lost my parents. That sorrow was unlike anything I'd ever experienced. It opened something up inside me that philosophy, therapy, or even my spiritual practice never had. I wasn't simply grieving them. I was grieving the version of me that thought that pain could be solved by logic, or that you could fix one corner of your life and the rest would follow.

Inside of that empty space, I began to see the truth. Healing is not mental. It is holistic. Mind, body, spirit—everything has to realign. Otherwise, we just relocate pain to another area of our life. That realization wasn't gained from a course or a retreat. It happened one night, sitting on the floor with my journal, jotting down ideas I didn't even realize I had. I wrote down a question: "What would my life be like if everything were in alignment?"

And suddenly, something changed. I realized that everyone doesn't need more advice. They need a place to come back to themselves. They need to be heard through the din of their own minds. That's when I ceased being a mentor and began becoming a coach. A life coach, a holistic one.

The first person I really coached, after that change, wasn't a stranger. It was one that I loved dearly, one who was grappling with anxiety and relationship struggles. We didn't dive into trying to fix everything. We sat with the pain. We journaled. We meditated. We worked through emotions without attempting to fix them. And in only two sessions, something shifted in them. But more significantly, something shifted in me. I realized that transformation is not about force. It's about alignment.

That became the core of my coaching philosophy. We start with the breath, proceed to journaling, move to conversation, and gradually, we come to a place where the individual reestablishes a connection with their own inner wisdom. I don't offer solutions. I offer presence. I create a sacred space where silence is not uncomfortable but powerful, tears are invited, the past is not judged, and dharm is not taught but embodied.

One of my clients, Sanjay, contacted me when he was drowning in self-doubt. He was successful according to the world's standards, yet deeply insecure internally. He repeated over and over that he did not know what he wanted. But as I worked with him, it was apparent that he did know—he just didn't feel worthy enough to have it. His problem wasn't clarity. It was self-respect. By reflective journaling and dharmic questioning, he started to regain that inner respect. Now, he doesn't merely walk differently. He breathes differently.

Another client, Chaya, was mired in what she perceived as a career crisis. But as we delved into her patterns, it became clear that her sense of worth had become entangled with her childhood experiences of being ignored. Her block wasn't professional. It was emotional. We employed breathwork, mirror work, and a series of guided meditations based on Indian wisdom. Gradually, she started rewriting her story. The change was subtle but unmistakable.

That is the miracle of holistic coaching. It does not treat human beings like problems to be solved. It views them as sacred journeys in progress.

I no longer compartmentalize my life from my coaching. All the blogs I write, Instagram posts I post, conversations I have—it's all one seamless practice. My clients teach me as much as I teach them, sometimes more. They point out my own blind spots and reflect back aspects of myself I didn't even know I was hiding.

My greatest dream is to change family systems and shatter family patterns of repression. I'd like fathers to weep without guilt, mothers to meditate without shame, teenagers to speak freely, and relationships to be a practice. And I know it starts with people. One person who becomes complete has the potential to change a whole lineage.

In the years ahead, I can imagine myself in Goa with my wife, my dogs, and maybe a few trees in the background. I can imagine myself coaching online, not in terms of volume but in terms of depth. I can imagine my mornings dedicated to parenting and sadhana, my afternoons dedicated to clients, and my evenings dedicated to writing and service. That is not a way of life. That is my Sankalpa.

So if you want to know what motivated me to be a holistic life coach, I'd tell you—it was my own inner mess. My questions. My sorrow. My wake-up. It was my shattered pieces that healed into wholeness over time, through breath, presence, and dharm.

And now I turn to you.

Have you ever been doing all the right things and still feel out of sorts? Have you ever had a sense there is more to you than the world experiences?

If so, perhaps your journey, as it did with me, starts with a conversation.

Let's speak. You don't have to go it alone.

Om poornamadah Poornamidam |

Poornaat Poornamudachyate |

Poornasya Poornamaadaya |

Poornamevaavashishyate |

Om shanti, shanti, shanti hi ||

Hari Om Tatsat!

Warm regards,

Abhisshek Om Chakravarty, (Coach Abhisshek)

Holistic Life Coach | Mindfulness Mentor | Family Mindset Coach 

"Within each soul lies infinite wisdom; I simply help others uncover their light."

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