Unshakeable: Healing the Mind, Leading with Kindness — The Rachna Chhachhi Story

We live in a world where burnout is worn like a badge of honour and speed is mistaken for strength. But what if true resilience comes not from doing more, but from learning how to heal? What if the secret to better health, better leadership, and better living isn’t found in medicine alone, but in the stories we tell our minds?

Few people understand this more deeply than Rachna Chhachhi, whose journey from corporate boardrooms to global healing work reveals a radically hopeful truth: you can rebuild your life from the inside out, no matter what the world says.

The Introduction: Meet the Woman Redefining Healing

Before she became the founder of RachnaRestores® and The Kindness Practice Foundation, before she began treating individuals across 27 countries, before she authored five books — Rachna was a senior leader in the corporate world, silencing pain between meetings and ignoring her body’s quiet warnings.

Then the warnings turned into alarms.
Then the alarms turned into diagnoses.
Then the diagnoses turned into the words no one wants to hear — “This is incurable.”
What happened next is the defining arc of her story:
she healed herself, rebuilt her life, and turned her personal transformation into a global movement that blends nutrition, science, emotional wellbeing, and sustainability into one powerful framework of care.

In our latest episode of The AboutHer Show, Rachna opens her life and her practice with a rare honesty. The conversation moves from the subconscious mind to corporate burnout, from plant-based healing to the environmental cost of our choices — reminding us that mental health is not an “add-on” to life. It is life.

5 Key Takeaways from the Conversation

1. Healing begins in the unconscious mind

Rachna explains that medical science understands only 10% of the brain — the conscious part.

The rest, the 90%, the buried trauma, the quiet grief, the early patterns, the learned reactions, drive chronic illness far more than we realise.

“When the mind stops sending anxiety signals, the gut repairs, and inflammation falls.”

Her work is built on addressing this hidden landscape.

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2. Consumption is not just what you eat,  it’s everything you absorb

Thoughts. Media. Conversations. Work stress. All of it enters the nervous system and alters how the body responds.

Your mind is your first environment.
Your body is the mirror.

3. Nutrition is healing,  for you and for the planet

An 85% plant-forward plate reduces inflammation AND reduces carbon footprint. Rachna maps the link beautifully:
Personal wellbeing → planetary wellbeing → organisational wellbeing.
Healing is circular.

4. Neurodiversity is a superpower, when leaders understand it

Rachna challenges the way workplaces perceive neurodivergent individuals.

“These are not limitations. They are distinctive cognitive strengths.”
Pattern recognition, deep focus, lateral thinking, all unlock innovation when supported with inclusion and psychological safety.

5. Kindness is not soft. It is a strategy.

The core of her foundation is simple yet radical:
Calm minds create kind behaviour.
Kind behaviour creates stronger teams.
Stronger teams create better governance.
Better governance creates sustainable systems.

This is ESG in action, lived, not performed.

Quotes That Stay With You

“Heal from whatever they say you can’t.”
“Your body is a Rolls-Royce. Don’t put kerosene.”
“Everyone’s trauma is unique — never compare suffering.”
“Inclusion pays. Diversity pays. Kindness pays.”
“Breath can change inflammation markers. Breath can change life.”

These aren’t statements; they are philosophies to live by.

Listen to the Entire Conversation

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Why This Story Matters

In a culture obsessed with productivity, Rachna reminds us that rest is not weakness.
Healing is not indulgence.
Pausing is not quitting.

Mental health sits at the centre of every choice, the food we eat, the jobs we stay in, the relationships we nurture, the identities we carry.

Her message lands at a time when professionals are overwhelmed, workplaces are shifting, and our planet is pleading for slower, kinder consumption.

This is not just a wellness conversation.
It is a leadership conversation.
It is a life conversation.

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