MOM MATTERS
Riddhi Deorah, founder of Easy Parenting Hub, one of India’s largest digital schools
for mothers, brings together thousands of mothers in a quest to help them find themselves again
Words by Alisha Uvais
“We live in a world where mothers constantly feel they need to become more, do more, achieve more, or fix something about themselves before they can feel worthy. I don’t believe mothers need to become someone else. They simply need to uncover who they already are”
Mothers are expected to be everything, everywhere all at once. Across urban India and beyond, motherhood is increasingly experienced in isolation. While conversations around shared parenting have gained visibility, the everyday realities of raising children continue to fall disproportionately on mothers. In the process, many women quietly set aside their ambitions, friendships, emotional well-being, and sometimes even their sense of self. It is into this silent space that Riddhi Deorah has stepped in to create a safe haven for mothers across the world.
Riddhi Deorah wears many hats. She is a mother, a spiritual seeker, author, and the founder of Easy Parenting Hub — a global parenting community that has touched the lives of tens of thousands of mothers across fourteen countries and a hundred and fifty cities over the last decade. Through her workshops, digital learning circles, and widely attended Supermom Retreats, she empowers mothers to not only be better parents, but also reconnect with themselves. We interviewed Riddhi to learn more about her journey of becoming one of India’s most recognised life and parenting coaches.
When asked about how her journey began, Riddhi noted that ironically enough, it began with loneliness. Like many women before her, including her mother and sisters, Deorah believed that becoming a good mother meant sacrificing everything else. After the birth of her child, she left her career and devoted herself entirely to parenting. It was a decision shaped by love, cultural expectations, and inherited ideas of motherhood. Yet she found herself increasingly disconnected from the person she once used to be. The frustration she experienced has been a little too familiar to countless mothers.
Over the last decade, the parenting coach and founder of one of India’s largest digital parenting communities, Easy Parenting Hub, has transformed what began as a personal search for fulfilment into a movement that is redefining how mothers experience parenthood. At the heart of her work lies a simple but profound conviction: mothers do not need to be perfect; they are already more than enough. Riddhi believes that the pressure parents experience is a direct consequence of societal expectations. Consequently, they need support, connection, and most importantly a community that reminds them they are not alone. When asked about her idea of parenthood, Riddhi ventures “Because parenting is not ust about tools, techniques, and strategies.It is about human connection. It is about feeling seen, heard, and understood.”
Modern parenting discourse often centres the child, but rarely asks what becomes of the mother. Society has a tendency to romanticise the labour of caregiving, leading mothers to pour endlessly into their families, often without receiving the emotional nourishment necessary to sustain themselves. For Riddhi, the turning point did not come through any grand plans or eureka, but mostly through silent introspection. She was driven by a desire to learn more about parenting, which gradually evolved into a deeper understanding of herself. As she began to share her experiences online, something remarkable happened. Women began to respond, first in small numbers, and then enough to build a community. They were not only looking for parenting techniques alone, but because they were recognising themselves for the first time in her story.
One story became a conversation. A conversation became a community. And a community became a movement.
Today, mothers from across India and around the world gather in incredible numbers within the ecosystem built by Riddhi. Easy Parenting Hub has empowered over two lakh mothers and built a community of about 15,000. While parenting advice remains an important component of this hub, what is most remarkable is its emphasis on belonging. Mothers are encouraged to become better parents by focusing on reconnection with themselves.
This distinction is momentous. Much of contemporary parenting culture operates through a language of optimisation. Parents are constantly encouraged to engage with new methods and solutions designed to produce happier, smarter, and more successful children. This relentless pursuit of improvement, however, has hardly done anyone good. It often conceals a sad child in making and an exhausted parent struggling to meet impossible standards. Riddhi’s intervention shifts the focus. She does not tell mothers how they can do more, rather she asks how they can feel more supported. Instead of reinforcing the expectation that mothers should carry the burden alone, she creates spaces where that burden can be shared. And she reimagines parenting as a collective experience.
Perhaps nowhere is this philosophy more visible than in her much-celebrated Supermom Retreats. Bringing together mothers from diverse regions, professions, and life stages, these gatherings function less as workshops and more as temporary communities. For a few days, women step away from the identities they perform daily and reconnect with aspects of themselves that often take a back seat due to the demands of caregiving. They laugh, reflect, learn, cry, heal, and form friendships. Most importantly, they remember that they are individuals before they are somebody’s someone.
“Parenting was never meant to be a solo journey. It was always meant to be a partnership. And when parenting becomes a partnership, everyone benefits—the mother, the father, and most importantly, the child”
In many ways, these retreats recreate something that modern life has systematically eroded: the village. We do not have to go far in history to realise that child-rearing had rarely been an isolated endeavour. Extended families, neighbours, and communities shared the responsibilities of care. Today’s nuclear families, however, frequently leave mothers navigating parenthood with little practical or emotional support. Social media may create the illusion of connection, but genuine companionship remains elusive. Fully aware of this, Riddhi has expanded her work beyond digital platforms, fostering local parenting circles and city-based gatherings that allow mothers to build meaningful relationships offline. The intent is to ensure that they have people they can call when life becomes overwhelming. After all, it is the community that sustains people.
Riddhi’s endeavour comes across as even more crucial when viewed through the perspective of contemporary family life. While parenting is increasingly described as a shared responsibility, many mothers continue to shoulder the invisible mental load of raising children; remembering schedules, anticipating needs, managing emotions, and carrying countless responsibilities that often go unnoticed and unappreciated. Riddhi does not frame this imbalance as a personal failing but as a cultural issue that calls for collective awareness. She emphasizes that parenting is not a mother’s responsibility alone; it is a partnership. Fathers must move beyond the language of ‘helping’ and embrace genuine participation. Yet until that transformation becomes widespread, mothers require spaces where their experiences are acknowledged, validated, and supported. Her philosophy eventually prompted her to create something for the women who shaped her in the form of her book, ‘Mother, You are More than Enough’, first written as a gift for her mother’s sixtieth birthday. The recollections shared over the years found themselves turned into stories for mothers to relate and learn from.
What emerges from Riddhi’s philosophy is a radical redefinition of maternal success. Success is no longer measured primarily by the achievements of children or their mothers’ sacrifices. It is, rather, measured by connection, self-awareness, and the ability to nurture both oneself and one’s family. In a culture like ours that glorifies maternal self-sacrifice, Riddhi’s message feels quietly revolutionary. Mothers do not need to recede from sight for their children to thrive. They need not abandon their ambitions, silence their needs, or carry every burden alone. What they need is a community that reminds them that their own well-being matters too.
A decade after she first began sharing fragments of her experience online, Riddhi Deorah continues to offer precisely that reminder. Through coaching, retreats, parenting circles, and an ever-growing community, she is not simply teaching mothers how to raise children. She is helping mothers find themselves again. And in doing so, she may be rebuilding something that modern parenting lost long ago : the village that sustains every mother and one that each mother deserves.