Homecoming

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Book</strong></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A POWERFUL COLLECTION OF REAL STORIES OF INDIAN WOMEN THAT CHALLENGES MENTAL HEALTH STIGMA AND INSPIRES HEALING THROUGH TRUTH VULNERABILITY AND EMPATHY.</strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>This evocative collection weaves together lived experiences of women in urban India who have been navigating severe mental health conditions from schizophrenia bipolar disorder depression complex PTSD suicide loss and suicidality to trauma anxiety disorders eating disorders OCD and ADHD. Emerging from spaces that are not always safe or supportive they challenge the label of 'brokenness' and help reshape prevailing perspectives on the idea of wholeness. They also have the capacity to inform and inspire change in how families communities workplaces and even mental health professionals understand and respond to mental health conditions.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>About the Authors</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>A serial entrepreneur across the creative and social sector </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Neha Kirpal</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> founded the India Art Fair and ran it for a decade from 2008 to 2018 before joining Amaha as co-founder to build what is today India's largest mental health service with an in-house team of 200+ therapists and psychiatrists delivering care across 600 cities. Today Amaha has eight out-patient centres in Delhi Mumbai and Bangalore recently opening its first thirty-bed mental healthcare hospital. Amaha came together with Children First-a specialist child and youth mental health service-in 2021. In 2023 Neha was instrumental in the inception of the IMHA as part of the founding cohort now representing over 200 member organisations. An Aspen and Eisenhower Fellow she is part of the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders community. Neha received NDTV's Indian of the Year award Business Today's India's Most Powerful Women award and the prestigious Nari Shakti Award given by the President of India.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Neha is a global mental health ambassador a speaker an author and single mother.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Dr Nandini Murali</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a mental health advocate gender and development practitioner and thought leader in suicide postvention. Following her husband's suicide she transformed personal loss into purpose through SPEAK Project SPEAK and SPEAK2Us (9375493754)-initiatives of the MS Chellamuthu Trust and Research Foundation Madurai. Project SPEAK is a pioneering community-based postvention model supporting rural women bereaved by suicide. A certified life coach and author of Left Behind Dr Murali also integrates lived experience gender equity and trauma awareness to challenge stigma foster healing and drive systemic change-ensuring no one grieving suicide loss is left behind.</span></p>