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
1861 episodes
How To Build Trust With Listening And Simple Words, with Sean Weafer
Most people don’t struggle with communication because they lack confidence. They struggle because nobody taught them how to create trust while they speak, or how to feel safe enough to truly listen. Sean Weaver joins us to unpack a simple idea ...
The Game Of Ten And The Path Back To Wholeness, with Steve Barton
If you’re “fine” on paper but tired in your bones, start with one honest question: on a scale of 1 to 10, how are you really doing? We sit down with Steve Barton, a Gestalt-certified mindset coach, entrepreneur, and creator of The Game of Ten, ...
Hope That You Can Practice Through Food And Faith, with Ashley Ondrick
Hope can sound soft until you need it to survive. We open with “Speranza,” the Italian word for hope, and then get honest about the version that actually holds you up when nothing is changing fast, when pain is chronic, and when your inner stor...
How To Handle Hard Conversations With Real Curiosity, with Michael Ashford
A tense pause. A comment you immediately regret. A disagreement that turns into a fight about the fact that you are fighting. That pattern is not a personal flaw, it is often a training problem. I sit down with Michael Ashford, executive commun...
Therapy, Silence, and the Gendered Nature of Trauma: Dr. Shanta Kanukollu on Healing the Stories We Inherit
Listener note: This episode contains a brief discussion of childhood sexual abuse. Please listen with care. We talk about mental health more openly than ever, and yet so many people still hesitate at the door of a therap...
The Flimsy Rope: Stan Lewis on Shifting Your Vantage Point to Unlock Clarity and Mental Freedom
Sometimes you are not stuck because the situation is impossible. You are stuck because of the angle you are looking at it from. In this conversation, Stan Lewis, John...
When Failure Is the Path: Terry Fossum on the Science of Never Giving Up
Most of us were never afraid of failing. We were afraid of what failure said about us. And somewhere in that fear, we stopped trying. This episode is for anyone who h...
Your Second Brain: Dr. Shawn Talbott on How Your Gut Quietly Shapes Your Mood, Energy and Mental Fitness
About 90% of your serotonin, the chemical most people associate with happiness, is not made in your brain. It is made in your gut. In this conversation, Dr. Shawn Tal...
Built in the Fire: Buddy Clay on Running a Mental Health Practice Through a Stage 4 Cancer Diagnosis
What happens when the person who spends his days helping others heal is the one quietly fighting for his own life? In one of the most human conversations Healthy Mind...
The Skill Nobody Taught You: Trevor Stevenson on Reading Your Own Emotions and Conscious Leadership
Most of us were taught to manage, perform, and push through, but not to actually read what is happening inside us. For men especially, the cost of that gap shows up e...
Is This It? Jody Brooks on Midlife, Burnout, and Writing Your Best Chapter Yet
If you have ever woken up with a quiet, heavy "is this it?" sitting on your chest, this conversation is for you. Jody Brooks, certified life coach and founder of Mast...
When Your Productivity Becomes Your Identity: Nicole Johnson on Burnout and Reclaiming Who You Are
This one is for the high achiever who has been quietly running on fumes, the one who excelled at almost everything and still feels like something is missing. Nicole J...
Trauma Recovery Is a Direction, Not a Destination: Healing Childhood Trauma With Donna Donahue
If you have ever wondered whether what you are carrying counts as trauma, or whether healing is actually available to you, this conversation is for you. Donna Donahue...
The Manuscript Was Waiting for the Writer to Heal: Lana McAra on Identity, Inner Work, and What It Really Takes to Finish a Book
Every book you have ever loved started the same way. As a quiet idea inside someone who was not sure they could pull it off. What you see on the shelf is the finished...
What If Ancient Wisdom Was Right About the Mind? John Mee on Vedanta, Genetic Neuroengineering, and the New Science of Consciousness
Thousands of years ago, teachers like Swami Vivekananda and Paramahansa Yogananda spoke of the human mind as something boundless. Awareness, they said, was not fixed....
Leadership Is a Daily Practice: Jim Carlough on Integrity, Compassion, and the Quiet Question That Has Guided His Life for Forty Years
Most of us were sold a lie somewhere along the way. That leadership is a title. That integrity is a personality trait. That some people are born with these qualities ...
Trust Your Heart's First Thought: Dr. Henry Ealy on Burnout, Purpose, and What the Body Already Knows
We tend to talk about burnout as a mental or emotional problem. More boundaries. Better mindset. Maybe a holiday. But what if a lot of what we call burnout is the bod...
Focus Was Never Meant to Be Lonely: Alicia Navarro on Liminal Space, Body Doubling, and the Quiet Permission to Stop Blaming Yourself
We all know that feeling. We sit down with the best intentions, open the laptop, tell ourselves today is the day. And then somewhere between the third tab and the fou...
The Quiet Work of Coming Back: Vincent Hazenboom on Porn Addiction, Trauma, and the Honest Conversation Most Men Have Been Waiting Their Whole Lives to Have
There is a kind of pain a lot of men carry without ever naming. Hidden inside video games, inside pornography, inside relationships that hurt, inside a self-image tha...
The Manuscript Was Waiting for the Writer to Heal: Lana McAra on Identity, Inner Work, and What It Really Takes to Finish a Book
Every book you have ever loved started the same way. As a quiet idea inside someone who was not sure they could pull it off. What you see on the shelf is the finished...
Why Are We Waiting to Be Happy? Ulrika Torquato on the Quiet Cost of Postponed Joy
Most of us are not unhappy. We are postponed. We have quietly agreed with ourselves that joy is something we will get to. After this project. After this season. After...
Choosing Grace Over Perfection: Andrea Fortenberry on the Quiet Revolution of Motherhood
Most mothers do not arrive at burnout in some big dramatic crisis. They arrive at it in the middle of a Tuesday. A forgotten form. A meltdown in the cereal aisle. Lef...
The Quiet Lesson of a Fishing Line: Robert Bowers on Presence, Peace, and the Therapy of Going Outside
We have been taught to measure our days by what we caught — the deal that closed, the tasks we ticked off, the things we brought home. Somewhere along the way, a lot ...