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
1889 episodes
How Sound Becomes A Doorway To Stillness, with Richard Perry
You can spend years hunting for the perfect thing and still feel restless when you finally hold it. That tension is where our conversation with writer and lifelong seeker Richard Perry begins, starting with his upcoming book, In Search of the P...
How Outdoor Risk And Storytelling Build A Healthier Mind, with Rick Glaze
Your mind can feel crowded until something real makes it go quiet. Put yourself on a wild river, in open water, or even alone with a headlamp in a cave, and suddenly the usual noise drops out. That’s where today’s conversation starts: what adve...
Caregiving And Creativity As A Path To Resilience, with Nancy Jasin Ensley
Meaning doesn’t arrive as a single breakthrough. It’s built, moment by moment, by the way we show up for people when life is messy, painful, or uncertain. I’m joined by Nancy Jasin Ensley, a legal nurse, hospice specialist, teacher, and multi-g...
Lead With Your Nervous System, Not Survival Mode, with Hanna Kurman
Your leadership might not be failing your nervous system might be overloaded. We go beneath the usual productivity tips and explore a quieter force that shapes how you decide, communicate, and build culture: the biology of stress.I’m jo...
How Introverts Get Promoted Without Performing Extroversion, with Ulrike Seminati
The most capable person in the room is often the quietest, and that is exactly why so many introverts get overlooked in meetings, performance reviews, and promotions. We dig into the real problem behind “speak up more” advice, and it is not a l...
The Psychology Of Success Without The Finish Line, with Terry Weaver
Success can feel like a moving target when you treat it as a destination. We flip that script and talk about the psychology of success as something you build from the inside out, one small win at a time. If you’ve ever hit a goal and still felt...
How Better Scheduling And Data Flow Reduce Healthcare Burnout, with Mikael Petersson
The part of healthcare that exhausts people most often isn’t the exam room, it’s everything wrapped around it: the scheduling chaos, the disconnected records, the endless forms, the hold music, and the billing statements that read like a foreig...
How Aura Colors Map Your Gifts, with Helen Ye Plehn
Soul purpose can feel like a riddle with a deadline, but I wanted a conversation that makes it usable and human. I’m Yusuf, and I’m joined by Helen Ye Plehn, founder of Helen Creates Beauty and author of the Aura Color Wheel, to unpack a ...
A Brain Tumor, Memory Loss, And A New Life, with Jenny White
Your life can change in a single moment, and sometimes healing isn’t a return at all. I’m joined by Jennifer “Jenny” White, who shares what it really looks like to reinvent yourself after trauma when that reinvention is forced by a medical cris...
How Creating Space Unlocks Mental And Emotional Health, with Beth Wilson
The hardest part of change isn’t usually knowledge or discipline. It’s the lack of space. When your days are crammed with work, family needs, and nonstop distractions, transformation can feel like one more demand you can’t meet. I sit down with...
How Diet Culture Fuels Binge Eating, with Ronni Robinson
Listener Note: This conversation touches on binge eating, disordered eating, and recovery. It is honest and hopeful, and it carries no diet talk, no numbers, and no body judgment. If any of it lands close to home, please know support...
How Chronic Stress Fuels Autoimmune Flare Ups, with Shelli Galvan
Your autoimmune flare-ups might not be “out of nowhere.” When chronic stress keeps the nervous system on high alert, the body can learn to brace for danger, and that constant bracing can make pain, fatigue, and inflammation feel even harder to ...
Why There Is No Such Thing As Good Cancer, with Alicia Baca Rush
A gentle heads-up: this conversation touches on cancer, a near-death experience, and a season of deep depression. Please listen with care, and if now isn't the right time, that's okay. “You’ve got the good kind of ca...
Finding Joy When Life Falls Apart, with Dr. Ken Kaufman
Your life can fall apart in a way that looks quiet from the outside and devastating on the inside. When a job, a relationship, your health, or your sense of identity starts to unravel, the hardest question usually isn’t “Why is this happening t...
How Meditation, Music And Plant-Based Eating Shape Mental Health, with Dr Will Tuttle
Mental health can feel like a battle you fight inside your skull, but what if the fight is also happening on your plate, in your daily routines, and in the stories society trained you to accept? I sit down with Dr Will Tuttle, PhD (UC Berkeley)...
Stop Managing Stress And Start Dissolving It, with Andre Crabb
You can build the career, hit the goals, and stay disciplined and still wake up with a tight chest and a fog that never fully lifts. That gap between “I’m doing everything right” and “why do I feel like this” is where this conversation lives, a...
Raise Your Deserve Level And Stop Blocking Success, with Pat Pearson
You can want a better life and still block it with your own hands, and the scariest part is how invisible it can feel. In this conversation on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, we sit down with therapist and author Pat Pearson to name the real engine...
How To Care For Your Inner Life When Everything Feels Heavy, with Laura Sharp Waits
Your life can look perfectly “fine” and still feel painfully quiet on the inside. When your prayers feel far away, your usual comforts stop working, and you can’t even explain what’s wrong, it’s easy to assume you’re failing or falling behind. ...
Survivor's Guilt And Caregiver Burnout After Loss, with Julie Barth
Grief doesn’t always arrive as tears. Sometimes it shows up as a perfect smile, a packed lunch, a calm voice on the phone, and a caregiver who never gets to be the one held. I’m joined by writer and nonprofit founder Julie Barth to talk about w...
How To Navigate Career And Life Transitions, with Timothy Stobbe
The most confusing seasons of life are often the ones that change us the most: the old map stops working, the new one is not here yet, and you are left standing in the messy middle. We sit with that reality and talk about what career transition...
How To Break Free From Borrowed Identity, with Lauretta Zucchetti
A quiet thought can change everything: “This is not me.” If you’ve ever felt that whisper underneath a perfectly functional life, you’ll recognise the terrain we walk today. We sit down with writer, speaker, and coach Lauretta Zucchetti to talk...
The Motherhood Identity Shift: Matrescence and Rebuilding Yourself with Mandy Cai
A 3 a.m. feeding can bring a question nobody warns you about: Who am I now that I’m someone’s mother? That moment isn’t always a crisis or postpartum depression. Sometimes it’s something quieter and harder to name, the sound of an old self step...
If You Keep Asking “Is It Me?” You May Be Living With Coercive Control, with Carine Van Hee
🛟 A Note Before You ListenThis episode contains honest discussion of emotional abuse, toxic relationships, mental manipulation, and the experience of leaving an abusive partner. Some parts may feel...
Why Therapy and Self-Help Still Leave You Anxious (And What Actually Helps), with Ben Oofana
You can do everything “right” and still feel wrong. You’ve read the books, tried therapy, journaled, learned the language of healing, and somehow anxiety still spikes, overwhelm still hits, and the same relationship patterns keep replaying. We’...
How Inner Narratives Shape Your Mental Health, with Matt Witten
The most powerful story you’ll ever write might not be a novel or a screenplay, it might be the one you replay in your own head when the room gets quiet. I’m Sana, and I sit down with Emmy-nominated TV writer and award-winning novelist Matt Wit...