Subhechcha Ganguly 
Dr.Haseena Chokkiyil is a Holistic healer with over 25 years of experience. In addition to being a graduate in Homoeopathic medicine, she is a globally licenced Heal your life@ workshop facilitator under Heart Inspired foundation, California, a post graduate in clinical nutrition and also holds a post graduate diploma in psychological counselling. Being a single mom herself who has conquered Addison’s disease and an initial stage of Cancer of the uterus with the same tools she trained herself into ,Dr Haseena walks her talk and truly embodies the title, The Kintsugi mom. She is presently working as Chief Medical Officer at Dr.AKB’S Mission hospital and School of Homoeopathy in Kerala, India.
Q1) Tell us about the starting of your author’s journey .
Ans :To be a published author was a teenage dream but never got the right subject or guts to embark upon the journey and nor did I have enough experience or imagination .But as life took its twists and turns, many profound experiences both on the personal and professional fronts happened…Good and bad which prepared me for the next journey, more wiser and experienced.Many tools were added to my treasure box of knowledge as a healer, apart from my basic degree in Homoeopathic medicine.
I could be of assistance to innumerable people in their healing journeys of many diseases stamped incurable by modern concepts of medicine. Add on to those, I had personal challenges to overcome in course of life like a separation from spouse, the challenges of single parenting and physical and emotional diseases like an initial stage of Cancer of the uterus, Addison’s disease and emotional breakdowns as part of them. However I could tackle all of them with the holistic healing tools I have acquired through out life and also advocate to my patients . Finally i felt like it is high time that I started penning down my observations .My main aim was to bring out the possibilities of Homoeopathic medicine and other Holistic healing modules in the treatment and radical cure of diseases to the world at large. But I knew not how to consolidate all of them into the parameters of a small book .However,like a play of serendipity ,at the Heal your life teachers training ,when we were asked to write the intentions for the near future, the first one on my list was that I am writing a best seller book and all my colleagues chorused. SO IT IS.
Immediately after that the covid lock down happened due to which i got enough time to reflect,and write the book.
Q2) “The Kintsugi Moms-Transformative Insights from a Healer’s Diary . ” is written by you . How did you decide the plot of the book and what was your inspiration behind.
Ans :First of all,I felt that if I write a self help book narrating all the tools like a text it would not catch the attention of readers as there umpteen number of self help books.Then I thought if I take the stories of my clients from my case file and explain the healing tools through story telling mode,readers would find it more interesting as there is a child in everyone of us who loves stories…Explaining the healing modules through their experiences would hit more effectively than dry narration.At that time I was mentored by a very efficient girl Ms.Jyotsna Ramachandran of Author success academy who suggested that a non fiction book like mine should have a target reader in mind while writing,a reader who you can resonate from your own experience.Thats how I filtered my client stories and funnelled them to encompass single mom stories which totally resonated with my life story .It is said that only a mess you have gone through will become the best message you can give out to the world.Actually that was a great learning point in the initial stage of writing the book and literally the best to begin with and decide the plot.
But since I had to wind up each chapter for better readability ,I limited each chapter to explaining one healing module in detail and then just mentioned the others with referral to the coming chapters.That way I felt that the curiosity would be maintained and coax the reader to crave for more till the end.But to a random reader,it would be impossible to keep track of all the tools if I ended the book with just the first section of the book,the 8 chapters with the stories and detailed explanation of one healing module in each of them.
So I decided to consolidate all the tools explained in the first 8 chapters into another section which can be a complete self help guide ,anyone can resort to again and again and develop their own practice schedule .Moreover, though my stories are those of single moms, I needed to emphasize that the tools are universally applicable. So the second section of the book can be used exclusively by anyone in need of healing at any level of existence, physical, mental, spiritual or psychosomatic.By the time they reach the second section, the transformational stories of the women depicted in the first part would have ingrained the effectiveness of each of those tools and motivate the reader to try it on themselves.
Q3) Tell us more about your hobbies. Do you think hobbies are important and they keep you motivated and adds energy from time to time ?
Ans :My main hobby is reading especially books on Healing, mind body connection and self help,spiritual and ,and medical. I love to learn more and more healing tools to add to my knowledge box, the latest was on the acupressure and Emotional freedom tapping and energy medicine .I love travelling with my son, nieces and nephews. They are my greatest allies, inspiration and resource persons.I also love to listen to soulful melodies and spiritual music Like Sufi and bhajans.Also a fan of folk music of every state .Love Ghazals too.I feel that hobbies are really what takes one off the spinning wheel of daily routine life and rejuvenates and recreates one to take on life more enthusiastically with renewed zest and passion.
Q4) From writing the initial draft to working on the final draft it surely requires a lot of efforts. What was the most challenging process in your writing career ?
Ans :The most challenging part was to consolidate all I want to convey to the world into the constraints of a small book which would have to be a concise guide to anyone seeking healing.Then came the editing part and then to find the right publisher for the book. The next hurdle was to find a good designer for the cover and of course marketing strategies which is still an ongoing challenge. Being a novice in the literary world with no guidance whatsoever, it’s been an extremely challenging journey but the best in my life.It has been a really long journey with so many learnings that I have become more confident and wiser than ever.
Q5) Is there any message you want to give to the readers?
Ans: My message to all those who have not yet read The Kintsugi moms is…
There is no challenge in life that cannot be overcome with the right choices of healing tools and guidance in the right direction.
This book is not just an anthology of painful stories of single women,it is a complete guide book to anyone seeking total healing from inside out…It is the culmination of my three decades of study ,research and experiences with myriads of health challenges in my clientele as well as from personal experience. It is also a calling to all of you irrespective of gender race or nationality to delve into your own inner recesses and discover your true purpose in life. Understand that we all have it in us to repair ourselves and emerge as the best possible versions of ourselves…to get Kintsugied from any and every Crack life inflict on us…and emerge more resilient and beautiful than our previous selves. THE ONLY PRE REQUISITE is to be willing to accept yourself exactly as you are and have faith in the working of the Universe. Everything that happened is for Good. Your challenges made you what you are now.Accept them, forgive and forget the people and circumstances you feel did not do justice to you, Thank them for the lessons they gave you.Learn to love yourself more than anything and anyone.Take good care of yourself.Then you become love itself.empowered to heal the world with your all encompassing treasure house of knowledge and love
