From Corporate Stress to Healing Art: Panna’s Journey as a Twin Raising Twins | Entry Level Mums

In this inspiring episode, we sit down with Panna, an identical twin, single mum of twins, spiritual abstract artist, and founder of the CIC Empowering Circle. Panna shares her journey of life after divorce, motherhood, raising her children solo while rebuilding her life through creativity and spirituality.After leaving a high-pressure corporate career, Panna faced corporate burnout that contributed to a brain tumour diagnosis, an experience that became the turning point in her life. She made the courageous decision to step away from the corporate world and embrace wellness, spirituality, and art therapy for healing.Today, she offers free healing art therapy classes, helping others discover how creativity and wellness can transform pain into purpose. Through her work with the Empowering Circle CIC, she supports women and single mothers in finding resilience, self-healing, and empowerment.✨ Topics we cover: • Parenting twins after divorce and finding strength as a single mum • Perimenopause and loving yourself through this phase • How art therapy helps with healing and spirituality • The shift from corporate burnout to wellness • Founding a community project: Empowering Circle CIC • Resilience, recovery, and turning struggles into purposeIf you’re looking for inspirational mum stories, curious about healing through art therapy, or exploring spirituality and motherhood, this episode will leave you uplifted and motivated.Follow Panna's socials:INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/panna_vekaria.artINSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/emp.oweringcirclecic-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------CHAPTERS00:00:00 - Intro00:01:00 - Nasra at Panna's Healing Art Therapy Workshop00:12:20 - Panna's journey00:27:20 - "I had to change my whole life"00:33:00 - Happiness is a fleeting emotion00:40:20 - Sawiya's lack of tears00:45:30 - Parenting our parents00:52:00 - Perimeopause01:07:40 - Dating fails01:11:45 - Mum comes first!01:16:00 - Dumbing down our children01:21:20 - Raising teens during perimenopause01:30:15 - Juxtaposition of not being a twin but raising twins01:43:00 - Outro