Q&A with NLP Life Coach, Mental Space Psychologist and Writer , Reema Ahmad
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Would you like to explain to everybody here that don't know what NLP is and then perhaps go back in time a little bit and just explain how you got to where you are today?
SURIMA. Tell me this. Through your work, you are empowering your clients to help themselves, so they go away knowing that they've got some tools to progress and change things, and if something comes up again, they can maybe deal with it and in a different way. So for what major reasons do people seek out and engage in your workshops? And are there specific types of people who would most benefit from your work?
My next couple of questions are around your Ah book. unparenting. So what made you decide Ah to write a parenting book? Ramya? Were there specific experiences that influenced you? Also, do you have a formal book launch plan? I'm really curious. Also, if you had to choose one chapter in your book, which chapter and topic do you think is most important for parents to read? I
Reema Ahmad
@Reema.Ahmad · 4:48
And even when I'm going through illness, and it's been a long time, it's a chronic illness, but it still helps me get up out of bed every morning. It's more than me doing things for people. This work actually does so much for me. And NLP is a part of it. There is so much more to it. But it is the beginning. In that sense, yes. But in no way has this journey been linear
Reema Ahmad
@Reema.Ahmad · 3:41
All of us go through life being traumatized by one thing or the other. So I'd say anybody who feels stuck in a certain way in life where there are certain behaviors that are not helping them. Or if they go through emotions so intensely that it. In a way disables them. It prevents them from functioning. Or if there are people who are stuck in relationships that are not making them happy or feel fulfilled
Reema Ahmad
@Reema.Ahmad · 3:36
Once we started doing that work, once we started doing workshops on abuse awareness and prevention with adults, with kids, with teachers, we figured out that our world is just so marked by who's a man and who's a woman. And somewhere that influences how children also experience themselves, how children experience their abilities, how they have more access to creativity or fields of thought or science that can benefit them
Reema Ahmad
@Reema.Ahmad · 4:50
So when I became a parent, it became very important for me to create that kind of relationship with my son where he could tell me anything. And we did that through a lot of playfulness. I made sure I worked on my own conditioning, which was an effort. It still is an effort because we don't belong to the same generation. We don't have the same social cultural upbringing. It's very different from when I was a kid to now, when he is a kid
Reema Ahmad
@Reema.Ahmad · 3:50
But nobody really teaches us or trains us to talk about things that are very internal and talk about how do you help your children deal with emotions, how do you help yourself deal with the tremendous strain that comes with the arrival of a child in your life, especially in a world where we don't really have community to rely on anymore. We have nuclear families and there's so much isolation. Especially post pandemic
Reema Ahmad
@Reema.Ahmad · 4:23
It's not enough to label people and prescribe medications. What mental health practitioners really need to look at, and what I learned through my journey, and I'm still learning it's an ongoing process, is that sometimes people are so hemmed in by their circumstances. There is so much repression, there's so much stress
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