[Replay] She Lost Her Mom at 6: Healing Grief & Spiritual Awakening | Rima Desai, Part 1

What happens when a child grows up carrying grief she has no language for — and discovers at age 12 that she can read minds? In Part 1 of this two-part conversation, host Deneen L. Garrett sits down with Rima Desai — transformational life coach, spiritual healer, and Masters-trained counseling psychologist — to trace her story back to its beginning. Born in Mumbai, India, Rima lost her mother at age 6, growing up in a home heavy with silence and a culture where grief and emotion had no framework for being spoken aloud.

Rima shares how she spent years functioning alongside her pain rather than through it, even as an unexpected spiritual gift emerged: by age 12 she was reading minds and predicting events, and by her early twenties — deep into a Master's program in Psychology — she still couldn't complete the sentence “I feel.” The conversation follows the divine redirects that eventually led her to a small countryside city in Tanzania, East Africa, a place she had dreamed of since childhood, and the moment her daughter's soul called her away from it.

In This Episode

• The Weight of Silent Grief — losing a parent in a culture with no framework for emotional processing
• The Gift of Intuition — how Rima's spiritual gifts emerged as companionship in her loneliest years
• Destiny in Tanzania — the unexpected journey that took her to the land she'd watched on cassette tapes as a child
• The Power of Surrender — learning to trust a divine plan when your own plans disappear without a trace
• Why Part 1 is the story and Part 2 is the work — both parts you'll want to hear

Connect with Rima Desai

Transformational Life Coach | Spiritual Healer | Counseling Psychologist

Guest Profile: womenofcoloranintimateconversation.com/guests/rima-desai

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Host: Deneen L. Garrett, Cultural Alchemist & Media Architect, Creator & Host, Women of Color: An Intimate Conversation

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