Author Rakhi Kapoor , a bestselling author of twenty-six books with Two Golden Book award wins and a pioneering physiotherapist strongly advocates one message of self-realisation “ No one is coming to save us unless we decide to take the first step towards our victory or liberation. She is a Bengali by birth, married to a Punjabi and resides in Chennai.
Rakhi’s medical complications during childbirth inspired her to introduce prenatal counselling in India two decades ago, impacting thousands of couples. Having grappled through and overcome post-natal depression and various hardships balancing her personal and professional commitments Rakhi chose to become the voice of young moms and sensitise the Indian men and families towards their needs through her books and couples counselling sessions. Young couples in nuclear families, single parents and women with careers find it extremely challenging to balance their professional and personal life against demands of pregnancy, childbirth, breast feeding and parenting. Mood swings and postpartum depression are real. Women need help to deal with such issues instead of shirking it away casually as a common occurrence.
Rakhi has published a one of a kind book for Indian men called expecting Daddy delivers which has been translated into Hindi titled Behtar Pati Behatareen Pita. Mums’ mental health and milestones is another book written by Rakhi which stresses on the significance of the expecting mother’s mental health for better maternal and foetal health outcomes.
Rakhi published her first book, “The Girl Who Was Left Behind” in 2017 - a story that was transcribed from her personal experience in her first trek wandering the Himalayan ranges of Nepal for six nights and five days enduring the high altitude, testing circumstances and harsh weather of the mountains while estranged from her group as she fell sick. A victim of abuse and sexual molestation as a child. Rakhi has been fiercely driven to write about sensitive topics through her impactful books related to mental health, narcissistic abuse, toxic relationships and childhood trauma. Her monumental works include the Golden Book Award-winning titles 'Now You Breathe' and 'Breaking Free Embracing Me’ for 2023 and 2024. The winner of the Nari Shakthi awards 2025 Rakhi Kapoor was also awarded the Rashtriya Pratibha Samman Award 2024 for her work in the field of Mental health . She received the International Inspiration women’s award (IIWA) subsequently for two years 2024 and 2023 by the GiSR Foundation in New Delhi. Rakhi has been awarded the author of the year 2022 at the National Achievers Award in New Delhi. She has received the Life time Achievement award 2024 for her writing by the Indian Awaz Foundation in Guahati Assam. Rakhi Kapoor has been awarded the Women Rising Star title in the 6th Asian Litfest 2024 in New Delhi conducted by the Asian Literary Society. Rakhi Kapoor has been recognized as the Women face of the year and 100 influential personalities of 2023 by Fox Story India. She has received the Exceptional Women of Excellence Award 2022 by Yuukke, a global ecosystem for women entrepreneurs.
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