DeepWaters
Four weeks, one to one, for people who have already done the inner work — and know there is more underneath.
This is not an introduction to anything. It is for somebody who has spent years looking at themselves honestly, who has already got further than almost everyone they know, and who can feel that what is left is not information, not effort and not another system. It is depth. Four Sundays, two hours each on Zoom, and the work in between. We go under the story you tell about yourself, we find out whose rules you have been running, and you go where you have been refusing to go.
Imran Hashmi
Serial entrepreneur · Amazon top sellerFounder of Depression.pk
The distance between who you are now and who you intend to be — and what is standing in it.
That distance is almost never made of information, money, talent or time. It is made of self-limiting beliefs and unconscious learned patterns: things decided about you long ago, absorbed rather than chosen, running below thought and therefore immune to every plan you have ever made. Deep Waters is four weeks of going at them directly. It works on your inner self, it is uncomfortable by design, and it is not for the faint-hearted.
The ceiling you have never tested because some part of you already agreed to it. We bring each one up by name and put it against what is actually true now.
Behaviour you did not choose and have never been able to think your way out of, because it was never held in place by thinking.
Who you are today, and the person you fully intend to become. Four weeks spent on what is in between, rather than on being encouraged across it.
Deep Waters is not for the many. It asks you to go under the work you have already done on yourself, which means you have to have done it — years of it, in whatever form it took. Offered to somebody at the beginning, this is useless at best. I take a few people at a time, one to one, and I turn down more than I accept. If reading that makes you want it more, keep going. If it makes you uneasy, trust that.
Apply if this is you
- You have already done the inner work — years of it. Therapy, discipline, faith, hard self-examination, whatever form it took. You are not at the beginning of knowing yourself.
- You already achieve, and the ceiling you are at now is not made of skill, effort or information.
- You suspect what is underneath. You have simply never had anybody willing to go there with you.
- You can be told something true about yourself without needing it softened, and you will not punish the person who says it.
- You go looking for the harder version on purpose. Comfort has never once been what you wanted.
Do not apply if
- You are unwell. If you are depressed, anxious, not sleeping or not safe, this is not what you need and I will not take your money for it. See a qualified professional — free — below.
- This would be your first real look inward. Start somewhere gentler; come back when you have done that work. You will get nothing from this and it may cost you something.
- You want motivation. A high on Sunday that is gone by Wednesday is available everywhere, and most of it is cheaper than this.
- You want to be agreed with, admired, or managed carefully. I will do none of the three.
- You cannot be challenged in the week you are busy, tired or certain you are right — which is every week this runs.
- You want a guarantee. Nobody honest sells you one, and depth is the last place it could be given.
What I will do in four Sundays
Not what might happen to you. What I will do, and what you will be holding at the end of it.
- I will show you, in writing, how you actually operate — not the account of yourself you have been giving for years, however honest it felt.
- I will name the self-limiting beliefs setting your ceiling, including the ones you have grown attached to, and put each one against what is true now.
- I will find the learned patterns running underneath the decisions you think you are making freely, and show you where you picked each of them up.
- I will not let you leave with anything that depends on you feeling motivated. What we build has to run on the mornings you feel nothing at all.
- I will make you go where you have been refusing to go — this month, while I am still on the call, not next year.
- I will tell you the truth about yourself every Sunday, which is the one thing nobody else in your life is in a position to do.
The four weeks
Two hours on Zoom every Sunday, and real work between them. The order is not decorative — nothing in week three is possible until week one has been faced.
The Descent
We go under the story you tell about yourself.
You already have an account of who you are and why you do what you do. It is intelligent, it is well rehearsed, and some of it is a defence. Week one we go beneath it — the pattern under the habit, the fear under the discipline, what you are actually protecting when you call it strategy. People who have never done inner work cannot survive this week. You can.
The Inheritance
We find out whose rules you have been running.
Almost nobody chose their ceiling. A father’s caution. A culture’s idea of enough. A humiliation at nineteen that quietly set a price on everything since. These run below thought, which is exactly why willpower never touched them. We bring them up one at a time, we test each against what is actually true now, and we let the ones that were never yours go.
The Rebuild
We build for who you are now, not who you were at nineteen.
Insight on its own changes nothing; people have been profoundly moved on a Tuesday and unchanged by Friday for as long as there have been Tuesdays. This week is the machine: the decisions, the measures, the standards, the work and the people, rebuilt on what is true after weeks one and two. It has to run on the mornings you feel nothing at all, because some mornings you will.
Deep Waters
You go where you have been refusing to go.
The conversation, the risk, the admission, the end of something, the beginning of something — the one you have circled for years and handled by being busy. Not next quarter. This week, while I am still on the phone. Then we go through it honestly, including the part that did not go well, and we set what the next twelve months are for.
What is included
Everything below is in the programme. There is no upgrade, no tier above this one and nothing sold to you halfway through.
Four sessions, one to one
Two hours each, every Sunday, on Zoom. Just you and me — no group, no cohort, no recording of somebody else’s call.
Me on WhatsApp between them
Direct. Not a chatbot, not an assistant. If a decision cannot wait a week, it does not wait a week.
What week one finds, in writing
The real architecture of how you operate, sent to you in plain language. Most people have never seen themselves set out on one page.
A ninety-day structure
Built with you in week three, specific enough to be checked, and designed to run without me from day one.
One voice that is not managing you
Everybody around you has a reason to be careful with you. For four weeks, somebody is not.
A check at day thirty
A session after the programme ends, to see what survived contact with your real life. Included.
Who you would be working with
Imran Hashmi
Serial entrepreneur · E-commerce expert · Amazon top seller · Founder, Depression.pk
I have spent more than two decades starting companies, scaling them, hiring badly, losing money and making it back. I became a top seller on Amazon, and e-commerce is the thing I know down to the floorboards — listings, margins, supply, ranking, cash, the unglamorous machinery that decides whether a business lives. I am not a motivational speaker who has only ever sold motivation.
I am also a philanthropist, and I mean that as a job rather than a label. I built this service and I pay for it. Depression.pk is free, it has psychologists and psychiatrists listed across Pakistan, a team that answers people at three in the morning, and it has never charged a person in distress a rupee. Charity is not something I do once the real work is finished; it is most of why I push as hard as I do.
Which is why this page is honest about its limits. I am not your therapist. I am the person who will sit opposite your excuses for four weeks and not blink.
Questions people actually ask
Is this therapy?
Why an application, and why so few?
Is this not a bit much?
What does it cost?
In English or Urdu?
What if I cannot keep up?
Who is actually on the call?
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I read every one of these myself. If it is a fit I will come back to you to arrange a call; if it is not, I will tell you that straight and point you somewhere better. Either way you will hear back.