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Chapter 3 : Meghna

     I am Gaddam Sai Meghna Reddy, a second child to my parents. My story starts before I entered earth itself, an astrologer predicted that the second child would be a son, a lion cub. Atleast the lion cub portion was right because I am Simha Rasi by birth. From then on, I heard society tell how unlucky my father was because he has two daughters, what he did to deserve this and things like that. By a tender age of 3-4 itself I decided I was going to be a son to my parents. Even though my parents raised me with no gender bias, my extended family, my school, my society never forgot to mistreat me or belittle me because of my gender.I subjected myself to toxic masculinity. Never cried. Always associated physical violence with strength. I would always get into fights. When people called me weak for being a girl, I would chase them to hit them with a shoe. Who is weak? Not me. I learnt that being stone hearted was being strong. So I never felt emotions. Never let anything feminine come near me.

       I Always worked hard. to be the son my parents never had. When I got placed in Goldman Sachs, a feat which no man in my family around me achieved, my entire family called me their son. In their eyes, I was finally as credible and successful as a man. Even though I had it all, money, success and a loving family and friends, I used to get panic attacks and anxiety attacks. I had the worst relationship with my body, mind and soul. My periods were terrible because I was completely disconnected with my womb. I was in a 4 year relationship with a narcissist and by the time time it ended I lost complete sense of who I was. There was always a void. Always something missing. Finally, I quit my job in July 2019. It was the best decision of my life. I decided to take a break year and that one year I had one goal, I will only do things which only I like. Not give in to the demands of anyone else. (I acknowledge my privilege here and apologize if I trigger anyone by saying this) And thus, the journey back to self began.

     I fell in love with Yoga, went to Therapy, got an Emotional Release Therapy done, learnt energy healing, became a Tarot and Energy Healer, became a Open Water Diver. And through this journey back to self, I realised how because I shunned and mistreated my feminine energy, all the relationships I attracted did the same. That day I decided, I am going to find out who I am without all these wounds and traumas. Every day since then has been unlearning my toxic masculinity and learning how to create a safe space for my inner child and for the feminine energy around me. Unlearning each and every privilege of mine. Unlearning gender, caste, sexuality and religious bias. What most people don’t understand is that we are all interconnected. We are all the same. Part of the larger divine being. We are here as souls to learn ONE THING - How to live with a unconditional love state of consciousness. When you abuse someone you inflict the same pain upon yourself, when you hurt someone you hurt yourself, when you wrong someone you wrong yourself. We all need to begin to remember our soul purpose. Why are you here? What are you contributing to this planet? What sort of a world are you leaving for your future generations? Does that world treat everyone equally? Does that world love unconditionally and accept everyone for who they are ? Else, I urge you all to ask those questions to yourself. My life purpose is to leave this world a better world with more love, compassion and empathy. And my fight until my end will be for unconditional love and acceptance for all. And all that begins with myself because healing for one is healing for all.

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