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 it, and somewhere along the line the silence became so normal that you stopped expecting anything different.
The Sattva Collective was founded to break that silence, and today we invite you to help us do exactly that.
Introducing My Sattva Story
My Sattva Story is a year-round storytelling campaign for South Asian women navigating midlife and menopause, and for everyone who loves, supports, or works alongside them.
The premise is simple. Share your story. In whatever form it takes. However long or short. However polished or raw. A single sentence that you have never said out loud. A paragraph about the moment something shifted. A reflection on what midlife has taken from you, and what it has quietly given back.
Want to contribute your story? → SHARE YOUR STORY HERE, and we will share it, with your permission and in your words, through the Sattva Collective platform. We would be honoured to share it.
Use the hashtag #MySattvaStory on social media.
There are no rules. There is no right way to tell your story. There is only the telling.
Why stories matter
Every time a South Asian woman speaks honestly about her midlife experience, something shifts. Not just for her, though that matters enormously, but for every woman who reads it and quietly exhales. Every woman who thinks, “I thought I was the only one.”
You are not the only one.
But the women who need to know that are often the ones who haven’t found us yet. They are the ones who will find us through a story shared by a friend, or a hashtag that catches their eye, or a post that someone forwards to the family WhatsApp group with a quiet: “Read this.”
Your story is what reaches her.
What you might share
There is no limit on what a Sattva Story can be. Some ideas to get you started:
The moment you realised something was happening in your body, and you had no language for it
The conversation you wish you could have had with your mother
What midlife has asked of you that you weren’t prepared for
What you have had to unlearn, about your body, your worth, your right to take up space
The thing that finally helped, after years of struggling alone
What you want your daughter, or the younger woman in your family, to know
Or simply: what is true for you right now. In this season. In this body. In this complicated, beautiful, difficult, extraordinary midlife.
Each month, we spotlight one story
Every month, The Sattva Collective will feature a My Sattva Story on our blog and Substack, shared in the contributor’s own words, with care and with the deep respect it deserves.
If you would like to be considered for a monthly spotlight, email your story to hello@thesattvacollective.org with My Sattva Story in the subject line.
And every 14th May: Sattva Day, your story becomes part of something bigger.
On Sattva Day, South Asian Women’s Midlife Awareness Day, observed every 14th May, we invite the entire community to flood social media with their Sattva Stories. One day, one hashtag, one collective refusal to stay silent.
Mark your calendar. 14th May 2027. It is not far away.
The silence around South Asian women’s midlife experience has been passed down for generations. It was never ours to keep. It was simply never questioned.
We are questioning it now.
#MySattvaStory: because your story is the one someone else is waiting to hear.
With love and Sattva,
Kiran x
Founder & Director