In a few words, how would you describe where you are in your midlife journey right now?
I would describe it as a journey of becoming stronger, wiser, more compassionate towards myself, and far less interested in shrinking myself to fit anyone else’s expectations.
Midlife has taught me that taking care of myself isn’t selfish. It’s necessary.
Where are you based?
I am based in Chennai, India, although I work with women across the world through my coaching practice.
Tell us your Sattva Story.
For much of my life, I believed that knowing what to do was enough. I’m a Gold Medallist in Nutrition and Dietetics. I understood food & exercise. I knew what a healthy lifestyle looked like.
And yet, there was a period in my own life when I wasn’t consistently doing the things I knew would help me. That experience was humbling.
It made me realize that transformation isn’t simply about knowledge, discipline, or finding the perfect plan. We are human beings living complex lives. Stress, responsibilities, emotions, habits, relationships, and the way we see ourselves all play a role in how we care for our health.
Then came midlife.
Like many women, I began experiencing changes that made me realize that the strategies that may have worked earlier in life couldn’t simply be carried forward unchanged.
I had to learn to listen to my body differently.
I became more intentional about strength training, nourishment, sleep, recovery, and managing stress. But perhaps the biggest shift was learning to stop treating my body as a problem to be fixed.
My personal journey deeply shaped the work I do today.
Through The 8th Element and my STRONG-HER Method, I now support women navigating perimenopause and menopause to move away from restriction, punishment, and constantly starting over.
My work is about helping women build strength, energy, confidence, and self-trust through an approach that considers the whole woman, not just her weight.
Menopause, I’ve come to believe, doesn’t have to be the beginning of decline.
It can be a beautiful phase — an opportunity to reinvent your identity, pause, reassess, and build a stronger relationship with yourself for the decades still ahead.
Is there one thing you wish someone had told you earlier about midlife?
That you don’t have to fight your body through this phase and put your body through crazy restrictions, rules, and diets. Your body isn’t betraying you. It’s changing, and it needs a different kind of attention & approach.
I wish someone had told me earlier that midlife isn’t about desperately trying to get back to the woman you were at 30.
It’s about understanding who you are becoming and giving that woman the strength, nourishment, rest, and care she deserves.
You are not past your prime. You may simply be entering a new one.
