Women’s Day Special- “The Big Book For All Aged Women” By- Komal Shah

About the author: Dr. Komal Shah has the vision, passion, and mission to get radiant health with a holistic approach to women’s health. Komal shah is from Vadodara, Gujrat, India. She is a physiotherapist, pelvic floor rehabilitation practitioner, fitness trainer, weight management coach, and yoga teacher. She has been working in the physiotherapy field and women’s health and fitness field for many years. She has spent countless hours treating and teaching exercises for various conditions. While treating patients and teaching in fitness classes she realized modern medication is not enough in treating women’s only issues.

Summary of the book: Radiant health is just not limited to exercises and diet plans. There is a huge need for awareness, little knowledge, prevention, and secondary cure to treat these conditions permanently and from the route in a holistic and better way. Her curiosity and enthusiasm inspired her and she decided to give thought to the idea of bringing all knowledge of yoga, planned exercise, clean diet, and lifestyle modifications together in this book in dealing with women’s health issues from menarche to menopause in a holistic approach.

1. Name of author: Komal Shah
2. Can you tell us a little about your book?This book is a comprehensive resource and an in-one handy guide highlighting women’s common health issues from teenage girls to post-menopause women. This book highlights the importance of planned exercises, yoga, a clean diet, and lifestyle modifications explained in simple and layman’s language that is easy to digest. This book is just not informative but it’s a lifestyle program with simple tools that any woman can implement in her own life. This book is divided into 9 sections and each section represents different stages of women’s life.
3. Is there a specific event that inspired this story or was this an out-of-the-blue idea?I am working as a physiotherapist and fitness trainer in the woman’s health and fitness field for 20 years. while I was working, I saw a huge need for prevention and secondary care for disease or dysfunction. My curiosity and enthusiasm to treat all these issues with effective exercise, diet role, and lifestyle modification inspired me to write a book.
4. What got are you writing in the first place?I thought of writing three important stages of women’s life-puberty, pregnancy, and menopause where there is transition in terms of hormonal changes, emotional changes, and physical changes.
5. What was your impression of your first draft when you read it?I was very excited to see my first draft. I wanted to put more information on these topics but the pages have limits. so tried to put all the necessary information in this small book.
6. Which part of your story connects the most with you? Why?This book has 9 parts. All parts are connected to each other, and all parts are connected to me. in this book, I have shared my clinical experience as well my personal experience. but yes introduction and end part of the book connects me the most.
7. What makes your book the one to read?First of all, this book is for women’s health common issues, second, this book is for you, your daughter, your mother, your friend, or your dear one. this book is in simple and layman’s language that is easily digested. I have explained correct exercise, diet role, and lifestyle modification to prevent or cure the problem in a simple yet effective.
8. What was the best advice you got while writing?Earlier I wrote about only three phases of a woman’s life that is puberty, pregnancy, and menopause. but after reading one of my gynec friends advised me to write on sexual dysfunction that is too common and much of the exercise role is there.
9. Who’s your all-time favourite author? Which book of his/hers made you fall in love with them?                                                                                                                   Het Desai, Dr. Brianne Grogan, Dr. Nilima Patel.
10. What is your evergreen tip to the writers out there?Whenever you want to write, don’t overthink or draft too much. just start writing on your first thought. The rest of the things will be followed automatically which might make history.
11. What was your hardest scene to write?Urinary incontinence and kegel exercise part because there are many effective ways of exercise that I can not cover in a bunch of papers.
12. Do you have another plot brewing?Maybe omkar chanting and pranayam’s role in stress, emotions, and hormones.
13. Any message you want to give to women this international women’s day?

I believe women are a strong foundation of family and thus society. So I want women to be strong not only physically but emotionally too. I want we as women develop self-confidence and self-love that is not only dependent on external appearance but that should spark from our eyes, our smile, that should exclude from the way we talk or walk. Radiate positive energy, look at the world with new ideas, step out from your comfortable zone and glow not only outside but inside too. We as woman support each other to empower feminine world.

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.in/dp/9395868023?ref=myi_title_dp