We Need to Talk About Something
There is a book coming.
I have been sitting with this quietly for a little while now, turning it over, feeling its weight and rightness. I was going to wait to share this on Khushi's birthday next month, wrap it in that significance. But today felt right. There is no better time than now, and saying it out loud to you is exactly the kind of accountability that makes things real. This is how I show up. This is how the work gets done.
The book is called Good Girls Don’t Talk About This. Until Now: Breaking the Silence on South Asian Women, Midlife and Menopause.
It will be published on 14th May 2027. Sattva Day. The second anniversary of The Sattva Collective. And if everything goes to plan, you will be able to hold a copy of it in your hands at the Thrive through Midlife and Menopause Summit that same evening.
Why this book
Growing up, in our culture, and I suspect in most cultures, midlife was spoken about as a decline. Something that happened to you. A slow fading.
And if you dared to want something different, something more, something true, if you changed your hair or changed your career or left a relationship or decided at 48 that you were going to feel more alive than you ever had before, it was given a name.
Midlife crisis.
As if wanting to actually live your own life was a symptom of something wrong with you.
Look at us now.
We are the generation that gets to change that story. Not just for ourselves, for every woman who comes after us. For our daughters, who are watching how we age. For the culture that told us to shrink, which we are quietly, firmly, joyfully refusing to do.
Midlife is not a crisis. It is a renewal.
A shedding of everything we were taught, pressured, and compelled to be, and a return to the woman who was always there underneath it all.
We get to model that.
We already are.
The cover
The cover of this book is a watercolour illustration I had made some years ago.
My mother had already left us by then. But I wanted a photograph that couldn’t exist, the three of us together. My Mum. Me. My daughter Khushi.
Three generations, standing side by side.
When I thought about what this book needed on its cover, I knew immediately. There was nothing else it could be. Because that image is the book. The woman who carried it quietly. The woman writing it all down. The daughter who inherits a different story.
The dedication
For my Mum. For always being the good girl, and for everything you carried quietly, I see it now.
And for Khushi, who will never have to carry it alone, and who never has to stay silent.
What comes next
I will begin writing this Autumn. The book will weave together my own voice, the voices of experts, and the real stories of South Asian women navigating midlife and menopause; women like the ones already sharing their truth through the My Sattva Story campaign.
If you have a story you’d like to be considered for the book, you’ll hear more about that in the months ahead.
For now, I just wanted you to know it exists.
And that it was always going to.
~ Kiran x