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 …
If you wake up tired, move through your day in a haze, and still keep going because you’re the one who always does, this episode is for you. In this episode, I explore the particular kind of exhaustion that so many South Asian women in midlife are quietly carrying. The kind that doesn’t go away …
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. …
She is the one who makes the appointments. Who drives to the hospital. Who translates between elderly parents and doctors who don’t have time. Who absorbs the anxiety of everyone around her while somehow keeping her own hidden beneath the surface of a perfectly ordinary day. She is a South Asian woman in midlife. And …
It started with a cup of chai. This morning, sipping ginger and cardamom in the quiet before the day began, an idea that had been circling for months finally landed. And I decided: simply do it. In this first episode, I share the story behind The Sattva Collective, the idea that came to me on …
The conversation South Asian women in midlife have long needed starts here. I’m Kiran Singh, founder of The Sattva Collective CIC, the UK’s first community-led initiative dedicated to supporting South Asian women through midlife and menopause. And this is our podcast. Honest. Unhurried. Culturally grounded. Solo episodes to start, with expert guests joining from Autumn …
There is a question that Darpan Bhasin asks every woman she works with. Not “How much do you want to lose?” Not “What did you use to weigh?” Not “How quickly do you want to see results?“ The question is this: How do you want to feel in the next decade of your life? It …