#rashika

There are people who are drawn to helping others not as a profession, but as a calling, an instinct shaped long before it becomes a career. For Rashika Kaul, this commitment began early, rooted in a deep desire to support individuals in overcoming life challenges, dismantling self-limiting beliefs, and reconnecting with their highest potential. She believes that what shapes a life is not merely what happens to a person, but how they respond to those experiences, whether they allow adversity to diminish them or use it as a catalyst for growth.

Rashika Kaul is a Certified Life Coach, Therapist, and Healer who works with individuals navigating emotional, mental, and personal challenges. Her work focuses on helping people understand the deeper sources of their struggles, often unconscious patterns, unresolved experiences, and internalised beliefs, with the objective to heal the present and positively impact the future. 

Her professional training spans multiple established and complementary disciplines. She holds a Diploma of Certification from Symbiosis Coaching USA, an ICF (International Coaching Federation)–accredited Certified Life Coach Program. She is a Master-level practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), a widely recognised modality for behavioural and mindset transformation, and has completed advanced training in Metaphor Therapy from The Counselling Company. In addition, she is a Reiki Level 2 Practitioner, a Redikall Healing Level 4 Practitioner, and is proficient in Inner Child Healing and Ho’oponopono.

Rashika Kaul’s approach integrates coaching, therapy, and healing techniques to address mental, emotional, and physical challenges in a holistic manner. Deeply influenced by philosophy, healing practices, and meditation, she creates a safe and nurturing space where individuals can explore their inner world, understand the roots of their difficulties, and reconnect with their innate strengths. Rashika believes that transformation happens when clients learn to rewrite their limiting narratives, and open themselves to new possibilities. When inner change occurs, outer change inevitably follows. Her work is guided by a belief in the resilience of the human spirit and the possibility of meaningful change when individuals learn to trust themselves. 

Before transitioning into coaching and healing work, Rashika built a distinguished career spanning over 25 years in marketing, communications, and journalism. She worked as a communications leader with leading brands in India and abroad, and also served as a journalist and editor across television and radio platforms in India and the United States. This extensive professional background brings depth, clarity, and insight to her current practice, allowing her to connect with clients from diverse walks of life with both empathy and perspective.

Early Passion for Self-Understanding and Reflection

Rashika Kaul has always been drawn to helping people understand themselves and their lives more deeply. From an early age, she developed a strong interest in philosophy, meditation, and self-reflection, laying the foundation for her future work. Before becoming a life coach, she spent 28 years in communications, working across media and corporate marketing in India. This experience gave her valuable insights into how people think, communicate, and respond to pressure. During this time, she observed high performance being valued while emotional well-being was often overlooked; seeing capable individuals burn out, leaders struggle with clarity, and many feel disconnected from their purpose.

As her personal and professional life went through significant change, Rashika Kaul felt a strong inner pull toward work that was more meaningful and aligned with who she was becoming. This period became a turning point, allowing her to reflect, heal past experiences, and strengthen the spiritual foundation that now guides her work. She realized that true transformation comes from unlearning, reframing perspectives, and reconnecting with the self, deepening her interest in psychology and human behavior, and understanding how mindset, emotions, and self-perception shapes outcomes.

Motivated by this calling, she decided to step away from her career to pursue formal training in coaching and therapy. This journey provided her with more than professional skills—it brought clarity to her purpose. A quote that inspired her path was:

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”

Helping people feel alive, connected with themselves, and aware of their highest potential became central to her work. She believes that when individuals strengthen their relationship with themselves, positive change naturally follows, often leading to deeper growth and more meaningful life experiences. 

Strengthening the Relationship You Have With Yourself

Rashika Kaul’s core mission as a life coach is to help people grow by reconnecting with their true selves rather than changing who they are. She focuses on supporting individuals to live with authenticity, emotional balance, and clear intention, especially during times of change or uncertainty. She believes in helping people strengthen their relationship with themselves, as that forms the bedrock of one’s relationship with the rest of the world. The outer world is a reflection of the inner world. She says that “your life and your relationships mirror you – they are a reflection of how you see yourself. So begin with yourself and heal yourself of all that inhibits your growth and watch your life change.”

She believes that when people reconnect with their inner wisdom, they access a state of grounded confidence, one that shifts how they think, choose, and live.

She also believes that everyone has the capacity for growth, healing, and self-understanding, and she guides them to access this potential with clarity, compassion, and inner strength. For her, coaching excellence is achieved by balancing empathy, intuition, and empowerment, creating space for awareness and insight, and fostering growth that is lasting, meaningful, and deeply integrated into all areas of life. True excellence, she believes, is reflected when growth is not temporary, but sustainable and deeply internalised across emotional, personal, and professional areas of life.

The Growth of Coaching in India

Rashika Kaul explains that the coaching industry in India has grown from a small, city-focused practice into a widely recognized support for personal and professional growth. Coaching is no longer just for senior leaders or corporate performance; it is now valued for emotional well-being, clearer decision-making, and handling the pressures of modern life, such as ambition, family expectations, and constant change. She points out that more coaches are using psychology, neuroscience, and trauma-informed approaches, helping clients understand themselves better, notice emotional patterns, and work on habits shaped by culture and upbringing.

She notes that the shift in coaching demand reflects a deeper change in what people are seeking today. Many individuals are no longer looking for motivation alone; they are seeking sustainable transformation. This has led to a greater emphasis on emotional literacy, nervous system awareness, and long-term behavioural change, raising both expectations and standards within the industry.

She also highlights that coaching is now easier to access through online and hybrid formats, reaching people beyond major cities, including young professionals, entrepreneurs, creators, and those going through life changes. People are increasingly looking for coaching that is personal and tailored to their needs. Many seek lasting clarity, emotional strength, and balance, which is helping life coaching become more trusted, relevant, and impactful across India.

Rashika Kaul’s Unique Coaching Methodology

Every coach has a unique methodology, but Rashika’s approach stands out by combining insight, strategy, and heartfelt support to create lasting change. Rashika’s coaching framework often unfolds across three interconnected stages: awareness, alignment, and action. Awareness helps individuals identify emotional patterns, belief systems, and unconscious blocks that influence their choices. Alignment ensures that goals are rooted in personal values, strengths, and identity. Action then translates insight into conscious, strategic steps that feel sustainable and self-directed.

Her framework emphasises:

Coaching for self-awareness: Helping clients identify patterns, beliefs, and experiences that influence thought and behaviour

Therapeutic insight: Supporting a shift from self-blame to self-understanding and emotional clarity

Healing practices: Addressing unresolved experiences and strengthening the inner relationship with self

Conscious action: Turning insight into practical, sustainable steps aligned with personal values

Emotional safety: Creating a supportive and nurturing space for exploration, regulation, and growth

This approach enables clients to build confidence, resilience, and clarity, resulting in meaningful and lasting transformation.

Collaborative Ecosystem for Holistic Development

Rashika’s work is rooted in the belief that growth is not linear, even though many individuals approach development with the pressure of “fixing” themselves. Her philosophy encourages a shift from self-judgement to self-understanding, fundamentally changing how people relate to progress, ambition, and personal change.

Through this reframing, personal and professional development stop functioning as competing goals. Individuals begin to recognise that ambition and inner peace can coexist, influencing not only performance but also leadership style, communication, and their long-term relationship with themselves.

As coaching has evolved from a niche offering into a widely recognised developmental tool, Rashika’s approach reflects this broader shift within the field. Once considered a luxury reserved for senior executives, coaching is now understood as essential for emotional resilience, clarity, and leadership presence across industries.

Looking ahead, Rashika Kaul identifies key trends shaping the future of coaching: deeper integration of psychology and neuroscience, greater accessibility through digital and hybrid formats, and increasing demand for personalised, outcome-driven work focused on sustainable transformation rather than temporary motivation. In response, she is expanding her offerings into structured digital formats that allow individuals to engage with growth practices beyond one-on-one sessions and apply them in daily life.

She is also exploring aligned collaborations with wellness platforms and leadership development organisations to build a supportive ecosystem where emotional well-being and practical growth reinforce one another, contributing to more meaningful and lasting development.

Integrity, Compassion, and Clarity

The core values that consistently guide Rashika’s decision-making and professional approach are integrity, compassion, and clarity. She applies this not just for her approach towards her work, but helps her clients to apply it to their own selves.

Integrity: She ensures that every coaching relationship remains honest, respectful, and meaningful. Individuals are encouraged to approach their relationship with themselves with integrity. 

Compassion: She seeks to understand each individual’s emotional experience without judgment and helps her clients to be compassionate towards themselves.

Clarity: She focuses on making every interaction purposeful, ensuring it leads to insight, direction, or progress. 

Together, these values form the ethical and emotional foundation of her practice, shaping how she supports clients and makes professional decisions.

Honesty and Real Experience Matter More Than Perfection

Rashika Kaul advises aspiring life coaches and emerging leaders to start with authenticity, as honesty and real experience matter more than perfection or image. She emphasizes building inner wisdom and emotional intelligence to create a meaningful, lasting impact.

According to her, effective coaching and leadership come from listening deeply, trusting one’s own intuition, and noticing patterns shaped by context and experience. Rashika also emphasizes the importance of self-belief and stopping the habit of bringing oneself down, noting that most people do not fail due to lack of ability but because they are held back by constant self-doubt and a critical inner voice.

She believes that personal growth does not require becoming someone else or being harder on oneself; true growth comes from self-belief, self-respect, and the willingness to stand by oneself even in uncertain times.

Above all, she focuses on creating safe, thoughtful spaces where the right questions help individuals access their own clarity, confidence, and independence. This approach fosters long-term self-trust, resilience, and alignment in life, enabling individuals to make decisions and take actions that are authentic, intentional, and empowering.

Her Three Pillars of Growth

Rashika Kaul has learned three important lessons: 

First, letting go of control and trusting the process of life: this reduces stress and the feeling of being burdened, as outcomes are not controllable; showing up, focusing on one’s response to situations, and not letting the situation take the better of you and staying in the present brings balance.

Second, accepting and valuing oneself shapes decisions and relationships, and healing one’s self-worth naturally reflects in the outcomes of life. 

Third, true strength doesn’t mean doing everything alone. It means asking for and receiving support, believing you deserve help, which fosters connection, care, and meaningful relationships while reinforcing self-trust and openness to the world. 

Success Begins With Loving and Accepting Yourself

Rashika Kaul believes the key to success begins with loving and accepting yourself, staying true to who you are, and finding confidence from within instead of relying on others’ approval. She emphasizes the importance of moving beyond limiting beliefs, embracing opportunities, and fully stepping into your potential. Success, she says, also comes from how you respond to challenges by staying calm, centred, and resilient, and by trusting the process of life, knowing that inner growth shapes the results you see in the world.

Finding Joy in Others’ Growth

What makes Rashika Kaul’s journey exciting and fulfilling is seeing real change in herself and in the people she works with. Watching others gain confidence and strength reminds her why she chose this path and gives her a strong sense of purpose.

She stays grounded through daily meditation and gratitude, which bring clarity and calm. She enjoys learning, growing, and challenging herself, which keeps life meaningful and interesting.

Rashika finds true satisfaction in being fully present and intentional in her work. When she gives her best with focus and commitment, every day feels purposeful and rewarding.

Learning That Goes Deeper

For Rashika Kaul, the next step in her journey is about going deeper rather than doing more. As a coach and healer, she wants to create spaces where people can grow at their own pace, feeling safe to explore themselves without pressure. She plans to continue her work by combining emotional awareness, understanding of the nervous system, and practical, real-life tools.

On a personal level, she focuses on being compassionate, self-aware, and connected to her higher self. She is committed to living in alignment with her purpose, learning continuously, discovering new aspects of herself, and embracing life fully. Rashika believes that true growth begins with self-belief, and when individuals raise their inner standards, everything else naturally follows. Looking ahead, Rashika hopes to build a legacy centred on clarity, emotional strength, and inner freedom. She envisions creating programs and platforms that continue to support individuals long after a single coaching conversation ends. By scaling impact while remaining rooted in integrity and genuine human connection, she aims to make personal growth more accessible, grounded, and enduring.

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