Archana Mayekar was sent to boarding school at four. She remembers wondering if she’d done something wrong. Years later, she built a life in Dubai filled with travel, parties and a marriage that seemed right. She still couldn’t explain why she felt so alone.

In this episode of ⁠⁠Unfiltered With Sapna⁠⁠, Archana shares how therapy helped her revisit her childhood, see what she’d been looking for in her relationships, and find the courage to leave her marriage and start over in Mumbai.

What happens when the life you worked so hard to build no longer feels like yours?

Usha Singh-Das grew up with severe eczema, facing bullying and rejection when she needed acceptance most. But some of her deepest wounds came from within her own family.

After losing her father, experiencing pregnancy loss, and facing a nine-year legal battle over the family home, Usha reached a point where protecting her peace meant walking away.In this episode of ⁠⁠Unfiltered With Sapna⁠, Usha shares the story behind her book, Breaking Free. We talk about family control, emotional guilt, going no contact, and the courage it takes to build a life beyond the expectations you grew up with.

Through her marriage, motherhood, and writing, she began creating a life on her own terms—and telling the story she once kept to herself.

What happens when choosing yourself means leaving behind the people you were taught never to leave?

Content note: Bullying, emotional abuse, bereavement, pregnancy loss, and depression.

Maureen van Huvelingen shares what it was like growing up neurodivergent in a world that kept expecting her to be “normal.”

As a child, she struggled with dyslexia, autism traits, and ADHD, moving through special school, masking, and years of learning how to adapt to a world that did not always understand how her brain worked. But with the support of her family, she slowly learned that being different did not mean being broken.In this episode of ⁠Unfiltered With Sapna, we explore neurodivergence, labels, childhood, masking, self-acceptance, and what it means to be seen for who you are beyond a diagnosis.