If May was the month everything became real, June is the month everything began to breathe.
New voices. New platforms. A community campaign that, I’ll be honest, I wasn’t entirely sure would land the way I hoped. And the quiet, determined work that happens away from the screen, in GP surgeries, local businesses, and email inboxes, that rarely gets documented but matters just as much.
Here is what June looked like for The Sattva Collective.
We launched My Sattva Story, and women started sharing
This was the thing I had been building towards for months, and the thing I was most nervous about.
My Sattva Story is a year-round storytelling campaign inviting South Asian women to share their midlife and menopause experiences in their own words. No clinical language. No performance. Just truth, told at their own pace, on their own terms.
Your Story Matters. Will You Share It?
There is a particular kind of loneliness that South Asian women in midlife know: the loneliness of sitting in a room full of people who love you and still feeling completely alone in what you are going through. Because the conversations you need haven’t happened in your family. Because your mother didn’t talk about it, and her mother didn’t talk about i…
The first story published was my own. I wrote it because I couldn’t ask women to be vulnerable in a space I hadn’t been willing to enter myself. You can read it here: My Sattva Story: Kiran Singh.
And then Rubina Chadha shared hers. Read Rubina’s story here.
Two stories. Two women. Two different experiences of the same silence.
If you have a story or know a woman who does, the door is open. We want to hear it.
The podcast is live
Two episodes of The Sattva Collective Podcast are now live on Spotify. Solo episodes for now, and honestly, I have found them unexpectedly grounding to record. There is something different about speaking out loud the things I usually write. It enters the body differently.
Expert guests join from Autumn 2026. Until then, these early episodes are where I think alongside you.
Welcome to The Sattva Collective Podcast
For too long, the conversation about midlife and menopause has not included us. Not our experiences, not our cultural context, not the particular pressures South Asian women carry quietly into this season of life.
We published two new expert interviews
In June, we published conversations with two remarkable women.
Darpan Bhasin brought a perspective I know will resonate with so many women reading this: the intersection of identity, culture, and midlife that rarely gets space in mainstream conversations.
Mangala Rao-D’Sa was generous and frank in a way that stayed with me long after the edit was done.
Both interviews are on the website. Both are worth your time.
We wrote about invisible carers
Carers Week came and went in June, and I could not let it pass without naming what I see in the women who come to this space.
South Asian women in midlife are often carrying caring responsibilities, for elderly parents, for children, sometimes for both at once, and doing it largely without acknowledgement. The article, "The Invisible Carer: What Carers Week Means for South Asian Women in Midlife," seeks to give that experience the language it deserves.
We made our website available in multiple languages
This was something Khushi and I had been thinking about for a while, and in June, we did it.
For a community where English is not always a first language, where a woman’s mother or auntie might be searching for answers in Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, or Gujarati, accessibility is not optional. It is part of the mission.
We wrote about why we did it here.
We made our website available in your language. Here’s why.
There is a woman I have been thinking about since the day we built this.
Our book is releasing next year!
Good Girls Don’t Talk About This. Until Now is the book I have been circling for some time. You will know the phrase. Many of us were raised inside it. This book will be about what happens when good girls finally decide to speak.
New resources: GP Pack and Resource Hub
In June, we made two new resources available on the website.
The GP Healthcare Professional Pack is designed for GPs, nurses, and other healthcare professionals who want to better understand the specific experiences of South Asian women navigating midlife and menopause. We want the conversations happening in consulting rooms to be more informed, more culturally aware, and more useful.
The Resource Hub brings together trusted information in one place, because no woman should have to search too hard to find support.
Both are free. Both are for sharing.
Outreach work, going beyond the screen
One of the things that rarely makes it into a newsletter is the work that happens offline.
In June, we continued building relationships with local businesses in Bedford because the community does not live only online, and the women we want to reach are not always the ones already following us. This work is slow. It is unglamorous. And it matters enormously.
A community cause worth supporting this July
As we move into July, I want to share something from Nisha Harichandran, a woman whose work I have been following and whose voice I believe our community needs to hear more of.
Nisha is fundraising for the British Heart Foundation in celebration of South Asian Heritage Month. The reason this matters: South Asians are at a significantly higher risk of coronary heart disease than the general population, and funding research that addresses this specifically is something our community has a real stake in.
In exchange for any donation, Nisha is offering a one-hour coaching or mentoring session; leadership, mindset, joy, clarity, whatever you need. It is a generous offer from someone who clearly understands the value of giving time as well as money.
If this speaks to you, please donate and share it widely.
Support Nisha’s fundraiser for the British Heart Foundation →
The Summit is taking shape
In May, I told you something was coming. Now I can tell you more. The Thrive Through Midlife & Menopause Summit takes place on 14th May 2027, 5 pm – 9 pm, at The Centenary Hall, Bedford.
And our first two confirmed speakers are:
Sonia Shah of Avenir Clinics, our first confirmed keynote speaker, brings clinical expertise and a genuine understanding of the women we serve.
Dr Vikram Sinai Talaulikar, confirmed guest panellist, is a leading voice in reproductive and menopausal medicine.
This is just the beginning of the line-up. More announcements are coming. If you know you want to be in that room on 14th May 2027, save the date now.
Support our work
The Sattva Collective is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. Everything we create, every article, interview, story, resource, and podcast episode, is free and accessible to the community we serve.
If our work has meant something to you, or to a woman you love, please consider supporting us.
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June has been full. Not in the breathless, anxious way that full sometimes feels. Full in the way of a table at the end of a long meal, warm, satisfying, with more still to come.
Thank you for being here. For reading. For sharing. For being part of what this is becoming.
With love and Sattva,
Kiran x
Founder & Director The Sattva Collective CIC thesattvacollective.org