At BrilliantRead Media, it is our constant endeavour to bring meaningful and powerful stories from India and around the world to empower and motivate our growing community. As part of this, we invited Dr. Shallu Gupta for an exclusive interview with us. She is a Clinical Dietician, Diabetes Educator, Corporate and Wellness Coach. Let’s learn more about her incredible journey, background, and advice for our growing community!
Excerpts from our exclusive interview with Dr. Shallu:
Could you please talk us through your background and your journey?
I have come from an engineering background and have worked with various IT companies including vCustomer, Astadia and Evalueserve. I have switched over to my profession and entered in medical field 14 years ago after which I have worked with Ojas Nature Cure Hospital in Delhi which is under NKS Super Speciality Hospital, Delhi. Along with that, I have worked with various organizations like Yog Avam Manav Sewa Sansthan, Gandhi Smarak Nidhi, International Naturopathy Organization, Nav Yoga Sewa Samiti, etc.
Currently, I am working as a Chief Medical Officer in one of the leading naturopathy hospitals in Gurgaon which is Samshudhi Residential Naturopathy and Panchkarma Hospital.
How did you discover your passion?
After working with various multinational companies and observing lifestyles of people in corporates made me believe that they are living a boxed life. A sedentary lifestyle and nightlife have made them prey to various acute to chronic diseases. They don’t know how to correct it.
I have started taking some health workshops and following good lifestyle. In due course of time, these initiatives helped me identify the areas of my core passion. It was essentially about arriving to explore what really resonated with my personality and life choices.
How do you manage to keep going despite the challenges? What drives you?
Empowering and challenging various myths, misconceptions and unawareness, stereotypes about the wellness journey to have self-awareness and courage to move ahead with strong beliefs to live a life of respect, dignity and treat everyone equally no matter what they have done is my drive to work in this field.
I am a firm believer in God and his ways so this kept me moving despite of various work environment challenges, people management challenges and financial ups and downs. I believe that everyone is capable of a good change.
We at Samshuidhi, envision a world where we provide treatment for Body cleansing, Mind Cleansing and Diet Cleansing to achieve harmony. Fundamental is to heal themselves first and then later promote healthier families and communities.
What do you feel has been the biggest source of motivation in your daily life?
My biggest motivation is my Guru, who has always given me the best of the teachings that keeps me motivated to this date. After that my husband, who has always been understanding and co-operated in every possible way.
He supported me mentally, morally and socially. Now all the other people around want to stand by but when the time of co-operation was required, no one stood upfront.
What are some of the strategies that you believe have helped you grow as a person?
> Being a firm believer in God
> Being Very Polite
> Being Mindful
> Always be resourceful
> Taking extreme ownership of your actions and for the employees
> Being very honest with my profession
In your opinion, what are the keys to success?
– Have a strong believe in oneself
– Be responsible for my actions
– Accepting and loving oneself
– Be Honest
– Always have a positive attitude
– Have a strong believe in continuous learning
– Believe in God
What advice would you give to our readers?
I would like to tell that hard work, passion and your believe in yourself can help you achieve anything in your life. The first and foremost thing in your life is good health. Without health, everything seems a waste, so you need to work hard to achieve a good health.
There is no one solution for good health, it is a complete change in your lifestyle that can help to achieve success. Only by following natural means, we can achieve a lot.
There is so much to say but can’t explain it here. Readers can reach out to me through Linkedin or other social platforms or can come to my clinic.
Last but not least what about your journey makes it satisfying/exciting
Wonderful feedbacks from my patients. The smiles on their faces show me as if they have achieved everything from a left-out life. That hope of living a healthy life by following our guided instructions keeps us moving.
Continuous blessing from loved ones around us keeps us motivated. Their health is our success. We provide easy ways and home remedies to move ahead. Naturopathy is a prevention rather than a cure.
I have received various recognitions and awards nationally and internationally from various institutes. I keep going to various schools, Universities, Sansthas for various health sessions. I also, keep going to various universities as a Guest Speaker and get various recognitions.
Getting conferred recognition is a motivation and acts as a reminder that we are on the right path.
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