“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. Since her childhood, Rakhi has been fascinated with reading books. Rakhi was a voracious reader and always aspired to become an author since childhood. Being an author was the most cherished dream but that came true only in the later stage of her life.
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. 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.
The informative sessions were aimed at becoming a guide for expecting couples to holistically take care of themselves during the pregnancy and post-partum phase. 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 labour 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.”
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, and Mental Health of Young Women and Moms, 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 stans 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.
Rakhi Kapoor is an also an established businesswoman. She is the co-founder of the popular Clothing Brand from South India called Derby jeans Community from South India. She heads the women’s wellness wing of the She ignites Business council of 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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