About Furkhan Dandia, CCC, MBA
Hey everyone! My name is Furkhan, and I’m a therapist, author, speaker and coach. After going through adversity and working in the corporate world as an Engineer for many years, I decided to pivot and pursue a Master's in Psychology. I have a newfound passion for making a difference in people’s lives and working with them to find their purpose.
Going through a divorce made me realize how much shame there is for men around failure. That further motivated me to help other men like myself. After seeing the life-changing benefits of therapy, I decided to become a therapist. In addition to becoming a therapist, I have a podcast: EZ Conversations, a men's group that I facilitate to help men embrace their vulnerabilities, and I also released a book, Pursuit Of Self-Love: 30 Uplifting Messages and Reflections
When struggling with adversity, I wish I had someone to turn to. Someone whom I could speak with, someone who could help me navigate through things, or even provide me with a different perspective. While everyone struggles with adversity differently, adversity is relative, and we all need support.
What helped me overcome my struggles, build resiliency and grow was surrounding myself with positive people, digging deep and seeking therapy. I spent many hours reading and learning about myself, opening myself up to difficult truths and working through each issue one at a time with the help of a therapist. To move forward and work on me, I needed to change my thought patterns and how I perceived situations and try to find gratitude. I don’t have it all figured out today and still encounter daily challenges. I still need to sit down and dig deep, be curious, question my choices and then work through them using mindfulness. I have only scratched the surface of this journey of life-long learning.
Through this journey, I realized everyone has their struggle, everyone has their journey, and everyone needs support. I want to provide that support and collaborate with people. I understand what it feels like to be scared of judgement, to be afraid of facing our shortcomings, and to feel alone at times. But we are not alone; we all have shortcomings, need love, and must forgive ourselves.
My focus is on working with people to address childhood incidents and trauma. Childhood experiences shape our behaviours, patterns and beliefs, ultimately influencing our perspectives of the world, relationships and how we view ourselves. Often these behaviours, patterns and beliefs are manifested subconsciously, and we are unaware of our role in shaping our lives. The narrative then becomes that life is happening to us. I aim to help people become more aware of these subconscious actions and dive deeper into the source of these behaviours, patterns and beliefs. We can all live purposefully and work toward our best selves once we have healed the past.
Eunoia means a beautiful mind and way of thinking; zen means incorporating our body and mind. When we hold stress, negative beliefs, and unhealthy thought patterns, we carry that burden in our bodies. Our body hints at the burden we carry through headaches, injuries, pain, sickness, lack of sleep, etc. The concept of Eunoia Zen is to change those patterns and work through them.