Sunlight, clean water, pilates, the gym — I was meticulous. And then I was suddenly diagnosed with a chronic health condition.
No warning. No obvious reason.
It changes you. You start looking at everything differently, not with fear, but with attention. I filtered my water. Switched to stainless steel.
Read every ingredient list food, skincare, everything.
"If it was going into or onto my body, I wanted to know what it was."
I'd spent years in Sydney, deep in fitness culture. Activewear was my uniform. I wore it for hours every day without a second thought.
When I moved back to India, that attention I'd developed finally caught up with something I'd been ignoring.
I started researching what I was actually wearing — pressed against my skin while I sweated and moved.