I always thought that coming out would bring me freedom.

That the moment I chose to claim all my identities – queer, brown-skinned, eldest daughter of South Indian immigrants – I’d suddenly walk around the world and feel like ME.

So, when I finally followed my heart and married the love of my life - a trans man - I thought I had arrived.

…and on the day I decided to be publicly out and open about ALL of who I am - I thought I had arrived.

…and with every cycle I broke in a family lineage of intergenerational trauma - I thought I had arrived.

Don’t get me wrong; every one of these moments was a turning point.

Times I chose my true self in the face of enormous social and cultural pushback.

But they were also just the beginning.

Those movie-moments were tectonic shifts that invited me to be who I was.

But they didn’t necessarily change how I showed up in daily life.

Because, like most of us in marginalized bodies, I had spent a lifetime echolocating: looking outside myself for validation, acceptance, reassurance and permission.

And using that information to shape-shift and form myself into a version of me that other people would tolerate.

Every minute of every day since I was five, that’s how I had survived the world.

So even when I was “living my truth” on paper, that old habit followed me everywhere I went: my marriage, my leadership, my down time, my relationship with myself.

I found myself spending all my time educating cis people, straight people, white people. Even in “freedom” my instinct was to try and change other people so that they might choose to accept people like me.

But once I saw what I was doing, I knew that I needed to reclaim myself.

Over the past 15 years, I’ve come to realize that each of us desperately craves versions of the same thing:

To walk into a room and just feel unapologetic and at peace with ourselves.
To say what’s on our minds without running it through a hundred filters.
To exist in our bodies without wearing a mask or feeling constrained.
To trust our inner voice and make decisions without self-doubt

To just BE. OURSELVES. and LIVE. EMBODIED. LIVES.

And between my own experience and all the precious humans who have trusted me with yours,

I now know that freedom is a practice, and one that we can learn.

So, hi: I’m Meera.

I know what it is to be everywhere but with yourself, because I’ve been there, too.

And I can’t tell you what it looks like for YOU to live every day honestly and authentically,
but I do know how to help you find those answers for yourself.

This is the work of my life. And I can’t wait to share it with you.

-Meera