At BrilliantRead Media, we always strive to bring meaningful and powerful stories from India and around the world to empower and motivate our growing community. As part of this endeavour, we invited Tripti Sahu for an exclusive interview with us. Tripti is a Relationship Coach, Emotional Healer and an Influencer. Let’s learn more about her background, journey and her advice for our community!
Excerpts from our exclusive interview with Tripti:
What was the defining moment that led you into relationship coaching and emotional healing?
My journey into relationship coaching and emotional healing came from my own life experiences.
As a single mother who has been separated for over two years, I went through one of the most transformative phases of my life. It was a period filled with emotional challenges, confusion, difficult decisions, and moments where I had to rebuild myself from scratch. But through that journey, I also discovered resilience, emotional strength, and self-worth.
While raising my child independently, I realised something powerful so many people around me were silently struggling with similar emotional battles. Whether in marriages, parenting, romantic relationships, or family dynamics, people were carrying pain they didn’t know how to process.
My defining moment came when I understood that my healing journey had a greater purpose.
I had worked through my own emotional trauma, rebuilt my confidence, and learned the importance of choosing yourself, knowing your worth, and creating emotional balance. That inspired me to become a safe and supportive space for others, someone who listens deeply, offers clarity, and helps people make healthier emotional choices.
I truly believe emotional healing is the need of the hour. And if my story can help someone feel stronger, valued, and emotionally at peace, then my journey has meaning.
What are the most toxic patterns you see people repeating in relationships today?
One of the biggest patterns I see today is emotional confusion.
People often mistake attachment for love. They stay in situationships without clarity, seek constant validation, become emotionally dependent, and tolerate unhealthy behaviours, hoping the other person will eventually change.
I receive messages every day from people struggling with overthinking, trust issues, cheating, emotional unavailability, toxic marriages, parenting stress, and feeling unheard in relationships.
The saddest part?
Many people don’t know how to choose themselves anymore.
A healthy relationship should bring peace, emotional safety, respect, and clarity, not anxiety, confusion, and emotional exhaustion.
Healing begins when you stop abandoning yourself just to keep someone else.
Why do people stay in toxic relationships even when they know it’s hurting them?
Because attachment can sometimes feel stronger than self-respect.
People stay because they hope the person will change. They stay because they fear loneliness. Sometimes they stay because pain has become normalised in the name of love.
And often, they’re not weak.
They’re emotionally exhausted, confused, and deeply attached to the version of the person they once fell in love with.
But here’s something important I always tell people:
Love should never cost your peace, confidence, or mental health.
The moment you begin choosing yourself, healing begins.
What’s the difference between genuine love and emotional dependency?
Genuine love feels peaceful.
You feel secure. You can grow individually while still feeling emotionally connected. There is trust, respect, emotional safety, and healthy space.
Emotional dependency, however, feels like fear.
Fear of losing someone. Fear of being alone. Fear of not being enough without their validation or attention.
Love is choosing someone.
Dependency is needing someone to feel complete.
In healthy love, both people grow together.
In emotional dependency, one person slowly loses themselves trying to keep the relationship alive.
Real love creates freedom, clarity, respect, and peace, not confusion and emotional chaos.
How do you rebuild self-worth after a toxic relationship?
The first step is to stop blaming yourself for what broke you.
Toxic relationships often make people question their value, confidence, and even identity.
Healing starts when you reconnect with yourself slowly.
Spend time alone. Create boundaries. Do things that make you feel peaceful, respected, and emotionally strong.
And most importantly, stop seeking validation from the person who hurt you.
Your self-worth is never defined by how someone treated you.
The right relationship will never make you feel small, confused, or emotionally drained.
Choose yourself repeatedly until it becomes your standard.
Why do people keep attracting emotionally unavailable partners, and how can they break the cycle?
Because most people are unknowingly attracted to what feels familiar, not necessarily what feels healthy.
If someone has experienced emotional inconsistency, neglect, unstable love, or lack of validation in the past, they often normalise emotionally unavailable behaviour without realising it.
So they keep chasing people who give mixed signals and make them work hard for a basic emotional connection.
But the cycle breaks the moment you stop abandoning yourself to keep someone else.
When you build self-worth, create healthy boundaries, and stop ignoring red flags, your choices begin to change.
Love should feel safe, clear, consistent, and emotionally secure not confusing, draining, or one-sided.
What are the first signs that someone is truly healing emotionally?
You stop chasing people who don’t choose you.
You stop over-explaining yourself just to be understood.
You begin protecting your peace more than proving your worth.
Healing looks like setting boundaries without guilt, walking away from disrespect faster, and needing less validation from others.
One of the biggest signs of healing is this:
You stop reacting to pain and start responding with clarity.
And slowly, you become the safe space you were once searching for in others.
What is one powerful daily practice to build emotional resilience?
Spend at least 10 minutes every day sitting with yourself without distractions, noise, or your phone.
Most people avoid their emotions.
Emotionally resilient people learn to understand them.
Journal your thoughts and ask yourself simple but powerful questions:
What am I feeling right now?
What is draining my peace?
What do I truly need?
Emotional resilience is not about never breaking down.
It’s about learning how to calm yourself, trust yourself, and rise stronger every time life tests you.
Healing begins with self-awareness.
What is the biggest misconception people have about relationship coaching and emotional healing?
One of the biggest misconceptions is that healing is only for “weak” people or people with serious problems.
But the truth is, emotionally aware people seek healing because they’re tired of repeating painful patterns.
Today, people are silently struggling with anxiety in relationships, emotional dependency, trust issues, toxic attachment, fear of abandonment, poor communication, and confusion between love and validation.
Many don’t even realise they’re carrying unhealed trauma into every relationship they enter.
Relationship coaching is not about telling people what to do.
It’s about helping them understand themselves, recognise unhealthy patterns, build self-worth, communicate better, and make emotionally stronger decisions.
Healing doesn’t make you emotionless.
It helps you stop losing yourself while trying to keep others.
And honestly, the strongest people are the ones willing to face themselves, heal, and break painful cycles.
If someone wants to choose the right partner, what inner work do they need to do first?
If you want to choose the right partner, the first thing you need to work on is yourself.
Because unhealed people often choose relationships from loneliness, fear, attachment, or the need for validation, not emotional clarity.
Ask yourself honestly:
Do I know my worth without someone constantly proving it to me?
Can I set boundaries without guilt?
Do I confuse attention with love?
Am I choosing peace or chasing emotional chaos because it feels familiar?
The right partner isn’t just someone who loves you.
It’s someone who aligns with your values, respects your emotions, communicates honestly, and makes you feel emotionally safe.
And here’s the truth:
When you heal, your standards change.
You stop settling for mixed signals, bare minimum effort, and temporary love.
Because the right relationship begins the moment you stop abandoning yourself just to keep someone else.
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