She Healed Thousands of Mothers, Wrote 26 Bestselling Books, and Took a Stand for Mental Health: The Inspiring Journey of Rakhi Kapoor

“Life is too precious to be allowed to simply pass by. It has to be lived completely and intensely in the moment” a quote by Rakhi Kapoor, an author, and a prenatal counselor with 25 years of experience who has authored 26 books having churned out five Amazon India Best Sellers.Rakhi Kapoor’s professional background as a physiotherapist led her to become one of the pioneers of Prenatal Counselling in India. Rakhi is a renowned physiotherapist who pioneered the concept of prenatal counseling in India.

With the women’s revolution, women began working outside their homes, rubbing shoulders with men earning a living for their family. In India the large size complex joint family system began to fall apart giving rise to nuclear families. Hence a woman was single handedly taking care of her household and professional responsibilities. Pregnancy, childbirth along with taking care of infants became an immense workload that fell upon an already overworked woman. The informative sessions curated by Rakhi were aimed at guiding expecting couples holistically to take care of themselves during the pregnancy and post-partum phase. Her sessions didn’t curtail to finding solutions for a fit and healthy pregnancy, but also expanded its horizon on aspects like mental health, stress management, empathizing the society and partners about the needs of an expecting woman and new mother. Rakhi shares her most significant achievements “Putting up a smile on thousands of pregnant women’s lips, strengthening their marriages, easing their pain through long gruesome hours of labor, and helping them get through the initial tiring sleepless long nights in the post-natal phase taking care of the newborn has been my greatest achievement. In the happiness of all these women and their families lie my happiness.”

The concept of attending a course on healthy living and wellness during pregnancy was a Westernized one and unheard of in India. She formulated an Indian version of it twenty-five years ago and has been guiding thousands of expecting couples since then. Rakhi strapped her five-month-old baby and went door to door meeting obstetricians, hospitals, and maternity clinics to generate awareness about this concept. Rakhi Kapoor has written several books educating expecting mothers and their families about tackling the often-neglected aspects of pregnancy like mood swings, anxiety and fear of childbirth, personal stress levels, work-life balance, postnatal blues, etc. She has authored innovative books for expecting women like “Deliver with Delight”, a book on pregnancy for Indian Fathers called “Expecting Daddy Delivers” which has been translated into Hindi “Behtar Pati Behtareen Pita” and a book on mental health for young expecting women and moms called “Mums Mental health and Milestones”.

Rakhi Kapoor has been nicknamed “a serial author” by her publishing team. Rakhi would take her pen and paper doodle scribble and try to write but she never managed to write a book. She did feel disheartened about it and almost gave up on her dream of becoming an author. Then in the year 2014, she went for her first trek to Nepal to the Gokyo lakes. At 12,000 feet in the mountains, she fell sick and was deemed unfit to complete her trek. Six nights and five days of wandering heartbroken and disappointed alone in the wilderness of the mountains in the Himalayan Ranges, she trekked back all alone, and this journey became the story based on which she published her first book “The Girl Who Was Left Behind” in 2018. Since then, there has been no looking back. Twenty-six books in various genres including Pregnancy, childbirth, relationships, self-help, personal transformation, and Mental Health. Rakhi transformed her failures into success and self-love and became the “Girl Who Never Looked Back”.

Rakhi is a fearless advocate of mental health. She takes strong stands against Narcissistic abuse. Rakhi Kapoor’s books Now you breathe, and Breaking Free Embracing won the Golden Book Award 2023 and 2024 awakens individuals to the fact that Love and Abuse cannot go together becoming the voice for individuals both adults and children who suffer emotional, verbal, and physical abuse trapped in toxic relationships within closed doors. Her books empower the victims with information to recognize the red flags and manipulative techniques offering awareness and healing. She received the International Author Excellence award in Dubai for her book “ Mums mental health and milestones”,  a unique book which addresses the significance of mental health of women during pregnancy and post-natal phase and the impact it has on the family.

Rakhi Kapoor is also an established businesswoman. She is the co-founder of the popular Clothing Brand from South India called Derby Jeans Community from South India. As much as Rakhi loves staying indoors engrossed in writing she also loves to travel extensively and trek mountains in various parts of the world. She has completed treks to  Spiti Valley, Mt Fuji, The Everest base camp, Mount Kilimanjaro, Harmukh Glacier, Annapurna circuit.

Rakhi Kapoor has been recognised and awarded in many prestigious forums. 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 for raising awareness about Narcissistic Abuse and Child Abuse through her books. 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.

A Ted x speaker , passionate trekker and globetrotter, Rakhi’s adventurous spirit and personal challenges deeply influence her writing and mission in life to inspire resilience and healing.

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