Healthy Mind, Healthy Life
Welcome to Healthy Mind By Avik ™ - ”Healthy Mind, Healthy Life”, a podcast that explores the connection between mental health and overall well-being. Join us each week as we delve into topics related to positive psychology, mindfulness, and personal development, and provide practical tips and strategies for cultivating a healthy and balanced mind.
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Episodes
1947 episodes
How Rap And Real Emotion Become Healing Tools, with Ashton Stevens
A song has never “just played” in the background. At the right moment, a single line can crack open something you’ve been carrying for years, and suddenly you’re breathing deeper than you have in weeks. That’s the kind of listening we’re talkin...
How To Witness Trauma Without Losing Yourself, with David Small
Trauma isn’t only what happens to you. Sometimes it’s what happens inside you when you keep witnessing the unbearable and still decide to serve. I’m joined by David Small, who has spent the last decade working alongside the Burma Rangers in Mya...
What If Your Job Is Not Your Identity - Katie Jean Hadiaris on Healing Workplace Trauma
“We’re a family here” can feel like the warmest promise a job can make, until the day you realise the loyalty only flows one way. We sit down with Katie Jean Hadiaris, ICF-certified somatic and trauma-informed coach and the founder of Work Is N...
How Childhood Voices Become Your Inner Critic, with Mary Beth Fox
That sentence you never remember learning can still run your whole life: “I’m not good enough.” It can look like perfectionism, people pleasing, overexplaining, staying “nice,” or feeling guilty for needing rest and support. We sit down with Ma...
How To Heal When Time Is Not Enough, with Pearly Montagu
Grief is often treated like a tunnel you crawl through until you reach “normal” again. We don’t buy that story. When loss hits, something real happens in the body, the mind, and the way you make meaning and if you ignore those layers, time alon...
What If Freedom Starts With Admitting It, with Amanda J Scott
If you’ve ever wondered, “Is it really abuse if there are no bruises?” this conversation answers with compassion and clarity. I’m joined by kinesiologist, author, and survivor Amanda J. Scott, who spent 17 years in an emotionally and financiall...
Real Leadership Starts Long Before A Crisis Hits, with Jay Jacobson
The leadership lessons that change you most rarely come from a boardroom. They come from rooms filled with grief, from high-pressure phone calls that rewrite the day, and from moments where the only real move is to show up with your whole self....
How Society Shapes Your Anxiety And Emptiness, with Greg Pai
That quiet moment when you realise you’ve “made it” and still feel empty can be more frightening than failure. Greg Pai joins us to argue that the anxiety, numbness, and constant pressure so many people carry may not be a personal flaw at all, ...
Why Physical Health Is A Leadership Skill, with Matt Jacques
Leadership doesn’t fall apart because you lack ambition. It falls apart when your body and mind are so depleted that your “drive” turns into irritability, brain fog, and survival-mode decisions. We sit down with Matt Jacques, an Australian Navy...
TRT Without The Hype, with Dr. Khashayar Farzam
Testosterone talk is everywhere right now, but most of it is either fear-driven or fitness-forum folklore. We sit down with Dr. Khashayar Farzam, a Canadian emergency physician board certified in Canada and the US, with a clinical focus o...
Technology, Attention, And The Search For Inner Peace, with Jordan Miller
Your phone isn’t just “distracting” you. It’s competing for the most valuable resource you have: attention. And when that attention gets pulled apart day after day, the cost isn’t only lost time, it’s lost clarity, lost calm, and a quieter sens...
How To Build Purpose When Work Feels Empty, with Florian Kemmerich
You can feel productive and still feel empty, and that’s one of the most confusing mental health signals there is. We start with that quiet “daylessness” feeling: the exhaustion that comes not from effort, but from moving in the wrong direction...
Seizure First Aid And The Hidden Cost Of Silence, with Jane Rogers
A seizure can happen in a grocery store aisle, in a meeting, or in the middle of a normal Tuesday, and the hardest part is often the uncertainty. We sit down with Jane Rogers, who has lived with epilepsy for more than 30 years, endured countles...
From Brain Injury To A New Life Built Daily, with Ryan Castleberry
Rock bottom isn’t always a disaster you can point to. Sometimes it’s a quiet car ride, a crying child in the back seat, and the sick realization that you can’t even afford a two-dollar comfort. That’s the moment Ryan Castleberry, an Air Force v...
A New Way To Name What You Feel, with Doug Earl Johnston
Most of us were taught that emotions show up uninvited, take the wheel, and leave us to manage the damage. We take that story apart with Doug Earl Johnston, known to friends as Doug, a former business executive and world champion sailor ...
How To Push Through Obstacles Without Burning Out, with Zac Baldwin
The moment something feels impossible, your mind rushes to write the ending for you and it’s usually bleak. We sit with that pressure today, then tear it apart piece by piece with author Zac Baldwin, who writes characters that keep moving even ...
Dr. Golnosh Sharafsaleh on How To Age Well With The Health Framework
We’re surrounded by loud promises about living to 100, reversing aging, and “biohacking” our way out of reality. But the quiet question hits harder: when you get there, how well will you be living? I’m joined by Dr. Golnosh Sharafsaleh, a...
How To Rewire Thought Patterns With Daily Habits, with Erik Fredrickson
What if the loudest thoughts in your head aren’t “you” at all, but old programming from childhood, culture, pain, and repetition? That single idea can be unsettling, but it can also be freeing because it means those patterns are not permanent.<...
From Breakdown To Comeback With Jack Nolan
Your life can look polished on the outside while you’re falling apart on the inside, and that gap is where so many people quietly get lost. We talk with Jack Nolan, one of the UK’s youngest mental health and empowerment speakers and a published...
How To Stay Whole While Fighting Child Trafficking, with Paul Hutchinson
A note before you listen: this episode touches on child trafficking and human suffering. Some of it is heavy. Please take care of yourself while listening, and know that the conversation ultimately moves toward healing, purpose...
How To Plan A Proposal That Feels True, with Ash Fox
A proposal can feel like a spotlight moment, but the real story is what happens underneath: nerves, hope, fear of getting it wrong, and the desire to be fully seen by the person you love. We sit down with Ash Fox, owner of one of the world’s fi...
The Loneliness of Leadership and How to Handle It, with Christopher Swing
Leadership advice often sounds like strategy and hustle, but the hardest part is what it does to you on the inside. We sit down with Christopher Swing, President and CEO of Vantage Surgical Solutions, to talk about the real mental and emotional...
Supporting A Child With Autism, with Paul Voss
A grocery store run should not feel like a tactical operation, yet many autism families know that exact reality: the planning, the sensory landmines, the food triggers, the constant vigilance, and the exhaustion that follows you home. We sit do...
Recovery Starts When Someone Sees You, with Dr. Larry Smith
A lot of mental health advice sounds like a solo mission: optimize your habits, fix your mindset, push through. We’re arguing the opposite. The deepest kind of healing often starts when one person looks at you, doesn’t flinch, and stays. That i...
Moving Abroad Forces You To Meet Yourself, with Kenneth Webb
Love gets complicated fast when the two of you cannot rely on the same unwritten rules. One person hears “seven o’clock” and thinks seven. The other hears “seven” and means “seven-ish.” That tiny gap can turn into real frustration, real conflic...