May has been a month I will not forget in a hurry, not because it went perfectly; it rarely does, but because when I look back at what this month held, I can see something taking shape that I am not sure I had the words for when I started this journey a year ago.
A movement. Quiet, determined, and growing.
Here is what May looked like for The Sattva Collective.
We turned one!
On 14th May 2026, The Sattva Collective CIC celebrated its first anniversary. One year since the website went live. One year since the first article was published. One year since a South Asian woman decided that the silence around midlife and menopause in our community had gone on long enough, and built something to break it.
In twelve months, over 60 articles have been published. An interview series featuring extraordinary voices. Monthly Sattva Women’s Circle gatherings. National media coverage across eight outlets. And a community of South Asian women who write to us to say, for the first time, that they no longer feel alone.
My daughter Khushi, our Co-Director, has been part of every step of this. Building this with her is the most meaningful thing I have done in my professional life. This is our legacy. And it is just beginning.
One Year In
There’s a moment, early on in any new endeavour, when you genuinely don’t know if it’s going to work. When the idea exists, the website is live, the name is printed, and yet you’re still not sure whether it will find the people it was made for.
We founded Sattva Day!
Also on 14th May, because the date deserved more than one milestone, we announced the founding of Sattva Day: South Asian Women’s Midlife Awareness Day.
Observed every 14th May, Sattva Day is the UK’s first annual awareness day dedicated entirely to South Asian women navigating midlife and menopause. We have submitted it for listing on national and international awareness day calendars. The page is live. The hashtag, #SattvaDay, is in the world.
This day belongs to our community. And it will grow, year on year, into something that reaches the women who don’t yet know it exists.
We just created something that has never existed before
I want to tell you about something we did yesterday. Something quiet, in the way that beginnings often are. No fanfare, no press release, just a date, a page, a name, and a decision.
We interviewed Mr Menopause
One of the most powerful conversations we have published this year landed in May.
Tafiq Akhir, known widely as Mr Menopause, is a man who has spent over 25 years championing menopause education, driven by the memory of watching his mother stand at an open window in a snowstorm, silently suffering through what no one had explained to her.
His interview covers the cultural silence South Asian women face, what happens when a woman finally gets an explanation for what her body has been doing, and what he wants South Asian men to understand about the women in their lives.
It is a remarkable conversation. I am grateful he shared it with us.
Our Website and Substack had a full update
In May, we completed a comprehensive rewrite of every page on the TSC website, from the homepage to the directory, bringing everything in line with where the organisation is now, rather than where it was when we launched. The copy is sharper, the story is clearer, and the site finally reflects the full year of work behind it.
The Substack has a new description, a pinned Start Here post, and a growing archive that goes deeper every month.
If you haven’t visited the site recently, it is worth a look.
Explore the updated website → | Read the Substack →
We launched a LinkedIn Community
The Sattva Collective now has a LinkedIn group: a space for South Asian women, healthcare professionals, coaches, advocates, and allies who want to be part of this conversation.
If you are on LinkedIn and this work matters to you, we would love to have you with us.
And one more thing, coming in June.
Next month, we are launching something new. A year-round storytelling campaign, My Sattva Story, inviting South Asian women to share their midlife and menopause experiences, in their own words, at their own pace.
Because your story is the one that reaches the woman who doesn’t yet know she isn’t alone.
More details coming on 1st June. Watch this space.
Support our work
The Sattva Collective is a not-for-profit Community Interest Company. Everything we create 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.
Every contribution, at any level, goes directly into sustaining and expanding what we do.
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Thank you for being here. For reading. For sharing. For being part of a community that is quietly, determinedly changing what midlife looks and feels like for South Asian women.
With love and Sattva,
Kiran x
Founder & Director
The Sattva Collective CIC thesattvacollective.org