Hey, precious human. Let’s get free.

I’m Meera (she/her)

I’m a Queer Woman of Color committed to the self-liberation of every. single. person. living in a marginalized body.

As marginalized people, long before we have a chance to know who we are, the world teaches us who we are allowed to be.

And whether you rebel, comply, or try to work around this reality - all these calisthenics erode your sense of self.

Imagine a day-to-day in which every decision you make is based in a firm, unwavering sense of who you are. Where you show up on your own terms, instead of constantly echolocating off the demands of the world around you. Imagine knowing how to show up for and as yourself even in circumstances where you’re not invited or promised emotional safety.

My work exists to help chronically over-functioning ( hiii, I see you, my “service-oriented” friend) people with marginalized, intersecting and multi-dimensional identities reclaim your sense of self, agency, identity and power, so you can learn to navigate an unjust world as your truest self.

Let’s get you free, love.

-Meera

What my people say

  • “This has been the most life changing work I have ever done in my life, and I've lived a lot of life. The journey that you helped me take has helped me do something I did not even know I needed to do: integrate within myself. I spoke to [my therapist] today, and she said I should trademark this thing I said to describe our work together. I said this: "Meera helped me put the pieces of myself back together in the correct places according to how I need them placed and no one else...”

    - K.S. -

  • "Everytime I work with you, I learn to trust myself more.”

    -L.H.

  • “I can't tell you how wonderful it is to work with someone who can talk about the experience of being marginalized simultaneously with an incredible sense of humor and with the capacity to just hold space for the very real grief, anger, and other painful emotions that come up when you're fighting to exist in an unjust world. You not only validated my reality, but you gently and brilliantly helped me to see even more deeply just how hard it is to be a multiply marginalized person. I have had others hold space for my grief and anger and pain in both professional and personal relationships, but I can't think of anyone else who has been quite so clarifying about WHY those feelings are valid, given the world I'm forced to exist in.That is the piece of this work together that really speaks to "self-liberation" for me. I wasn't just held but I worked with you to make sense of so many oppressive dynamics that are SO hard to see, both interpersonally and internally -- but because I can see them now, I'm increasingly free of their weight, and I think I'll only get freer going forward.”

    - H.B.

  • “I am dreaming authentically for the first time. I…finally let go of a lot of harmful beliefs about how I must be in the world, how much I need to achieve, and how I relate to others… I am FAR more comfortable being unabashedly myself, and I'm finally living as my true self, not giving a fuck about a lot of things that used to send me down a negative spiral. I am sure of myself in my decisions and feel more comfortable with following my intuition. Most importantly, I now know how to live according to my values in a flawed society that values a lot of harmful phenomena.

    -A.P.

  • Working with you, I felt seen and so profoundly accepted on my own terms. For me, it was so, so helpful to have this experience with someone who shares understandings from coming from a similar queer person of color background.... I felt like I didn't have to explain or translate myself as much when working with you.”

    -R.P.

  • "You have fundamentally helped me become more myself…and with your gentle nudging and curiosity have influenced me in ways I still can't fully articulate. I think I'm less inclined to step outside of my values or my own authenticity these days than I used to be. It feels like I have more power in how I decide to shape my days and my life without having more control, and that's as it should be.”Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

    -K.O.

  • "I trust myself in ways I have been unable to for years. Part of that is a much better recognition of my own signals, but a big part of that is also more confidence in the way that I work, what drives me even as it runs in opposition to how others and society would push or reward me.”

    -S.W.

  • This isn't therapy or spiritual direction - though I think those are really important, too. It's hard to explain - you aren't pushing people in a direction you think they should go, but you're listening really closely to hear where people know they should go, and then helping them tune in to that. You helped me to wade through things that were blocking me from seeing what I already knew to be true, but couldn't yet see or hadn't yet believed.

    -M.B.

  • “Meera is going to meet you where you are, with the right tools for the task at hand. are you hyperfocused on an issue? she's down in the dirt with a magnifying glass with you. are you running in a million directions at once? she's taking notes and is building a color-coded calendar for you. She’s sensitive to your marginalized identity. (i know like 4 straight cis white dudes at this point in my life. they can fend for themselves LMAOOO.) She’s the antenna on top of the static-y TV that is your brain. She’s not going to make fun of you for that mediocre dad joke you just made. unless you make fun of yourself first. then she will.”

    -A.S.

Explore my work!

  • Image shows Meera smiling at you, wearing a bright yellow sweater and hair wrap.

    Explore my offerings

    From Groups to Private one-on-one work, whether focused on leadership or whole-person exploration, Coaching is a joyful, authentic and transformative alliance between you and me. Click the button below to learn more about the ways we can work together.

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  • My Self-Liberation Framework

    My self-liberation framework is the foundation upon which all my work is built. In this public talk, I’ll invite you to understand your own internalized oppression in a new way, and explain how you can locate your own internal power even as you’re navigating the realities of an oppressive and unjust world.

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  • Art Prints

    My art-and-word prints are focused on the very same things my coaching is; permission, meaning and insight. I create them intuitively, in the hope that the piece you need is the one that finds you.

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A little about me:

I’m a queer woman of color, soul mate to a white, transgender man, the daughter of South Indian immigrants, and the tipping point in a lineage of intergenerational trauma. For decades, I struggled to integrate the many facets of who I am - learning, instead, to “switch off” and “switch on” different parts of myself to navigate varied spaces. But even as the people around me viewed me as an adaptable, capable leader and person, I felt myself growing fractured, and slowly disappearing. Trying to belong everywhere meant that I ultimately belonged…nowhere. Something had to change, and that something was me.

That’s the personal foundation that my work is built upon - but my story isn’t yours. I’m a professional, ICF-accredited and Certified Wayfinder coach with a single purpose - to support marginalized and intersectional people in radically self-defining who you are for yourself, even as you navigate the complex realities of how you experience oppression.

Whether it’s within the entirety of your life, your leadership roles, or somewhere in between - I’m here to help you fully unearth your voice and come to a richer understanding of all the parts of you - so you can stop trying to justify your worth, and start trusting and following your own deepest nature without reservation, shame, or the need for external validation.

-Meera

A little about my principles:

Anti-oppression. Pro-liberation.
Not just for show.

The white wellness and coaching industries are notoriously toxic for people of color, queer people, those with intersectional identities, disabilities or thick bodies, and anyone else that doesn’t fit into cis, white, heteronormative spaces, or wishes to disrupt them. In those spaces, so intent on “love and light” at the expense of justice, our voices are routinely silenced, diminished, tokenized, disqualified and placed on the outskirts of conversation. That’s why all my work and business practices center anti-oppression practices and accountability, irrespective of the identity of the person working with me. In my world, marginalized voices are sacred and centered.