There are some conversations that feel urgent the moment they begin. This is one of them. Anushka Chaudhry is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon, one of a very small number of female breast surgeons in the UK, and the first female general surgeon appointed to Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. She grew up in …
A monthly record of The Sattva Collective’s journey, for our community, and for anyone who wants to understand what building something meaningful actually looks like from the inside. July is South Asian Heritage Month. And this was the second year in a row that The Sattva Collective took part. Not just a post. Not just …
I want to start with what self-care isn’t, because I think we’ve been sold the wrong picture for a long time. It isn’t a candle. It isn’t a face mask on a Sunday evening, photographed at just the right angle before it slides off your cheekbones. It isn’t a spa day you feel guilty about …
Dr Supatra Tovar does not separate the body from the mind. She never has. With a doctorate in psychology, a Master’s degree in nutrition, and a certification in Pilates, alongside over two decades of clinical practice, a bestselling book, a TEDx talk, and a practice that has been featured in the New York Times, CNN, …
Dr Shila Patel does not soften things. After more than 25 years as a licensed psychiatrist, working with children and adults across India, Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, she has sat with enough South Asian women in midlife to know that softening things is not what they need. What they need is …
A grandmother’s hands, unhurried, working through long hair on a Sunday morning. The sound of a language that lives somewhere between the tongue and the chest, not quite fluent, but deeply felt. The particular comfort of a meal that requires no translation, no explanation, no apology for what it is. These are the things South …
A monthly record of The Sattva Collective’s journey, for our community, and for anyone who wants to understand what building something meaningful actually looks like from the inside. June arrived quietly, the way the best months often do. No single, landmark moment. No anniversary to anchor it. Just the steady, determined accumulation of work; stories …
In a few words, how would you describe where you are in your midlife journey right now? Midlife reinvention and coming home to myself. Empty nest approaching, post-menopause, and discovering that this season is less about proving and more about living with presence, creativity, and purpose. Where are you based? Los Angeles, CA Tell us …
There is a moment in this conversation when Mangala Rao describes being a young girl in Canada, mortified as her mother washed her hair with shikakai and rubbed coconut oil into her plaits, while everyone else was using salon shampoos and Western beauty products. She didn’t see it as wisdom then. She saw it as …
There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes from reading something important and not quite being able to hold it. You understand enough. You follow the shape of it. But the words are not yours, not quite, and so the meaning lands at a slight distance. You nod, but you don’t feel it land. …