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What happens when a man experiences abuse, harassment or sexual assault—but feels that society will never take his pain seriously?
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Rashmeet welcomes Liana Lucine, a former London Metropolitan Police officer, trainer and advocate for male survivors, for an important conversation about trauma, silence, shame and the barriers men face when seeking support.
Drawing on her experience training police recruits and specialist units, Liana describes noticing a troubling pattern: training materials frequently portrayed women as victims and men as perpetrators, despite the wider range of experiences officers encountered in real life.
She also recalls men approaching her privately to share their own experiences of abuse, assault and harassment. Some had previously been laughed at, dismissed or told they should have enjoyed what happened.
The conversation explores how cultural expectations around masculinity can make it difficult for male survivors to acknowledge their experiences, express vulnerability or ask for help.
Liana discusses the emotional consequences of silence, including shame, anxiety, depression and the fear of being judged. She also explains why anger can sometimes be an overlooked sign of depression in men.
Most importantly, she offers compassionate starting points for survivors: acknowledging what happened, releasing self-blame, learning about trauma and finding someone trustworthy who will listen without judgment.
The central message: Men can experience abuse and assault. Their experiences deserve to be taken seriously, and they should never have to earn the right to be heard.
About Liana Lucine:
Liana Lucine is an advocate for male survivors of abuse, harassment and sexual assault.
In the interview, she describes her previous career as an officer and trainer with London's Metropolitan Police, where she taught subjects including domestic abuse, sexual assault and harassment.
Her experiences highlighted gaps in how male victims were represented and discussed in professional training, inspiring her advocacy for greater awareness, recognition and compassion.
Her work emphasizes validating survivors' experiences, challenging harmful stereotypes and creating safer opportunities for men to seek support.
Key Takeaways:
Men can be victims of domestic abuse, harassment and sexual assault, regardless of the perpetrator's gender.
Cultural expectations that men must always be strong can discourage disclosure and help-seeking.
Dismissing or laughing at a survivor's experience can deepen shame and isolation.
Male survivors may fear ridicule, relationship consequences or damage to their reputation.
Survivors do not have to share their stories before they feel ready.
Acknowledging an experience privately can be a meaningful first step for some survivors.
Hearing other survivors' stories may help people feel recognized and less alone.
Anger or irritability can sometimes accompany depression, although they are not diagnostic on their own.
Partners, friends and colleagues can help by demonstrating empathy and respecting boundaries.
Survivors may experience anxiety, nightmares, flashbacks or other trauma-related difficulties.
Self-blame is common after traumatic experiences, but responsibility lies with the person who caused the harm.
Professional, trauma-informed support can be helpful when someone is ready to seek it.
Survivors deserve compassion regardless of whether they report their experience or disclose it publicly.
 
 
 
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What happens when you've spent your entire life taking care of everyone else—only to realize you've forgotten how to take care of yourself?
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Rashmeet speaks with Rashi Kaur, the founder of The Joy Consultancy, known online as The Joy Consultant, about women's self-worth, guilt, motherhood, cultural expectations and the emotional cost of constantly putting yourself last.
Rashi shares how a health scare forced her to question the life she'd built around caring for her children, husband, mother and everyone else who depended on her.
Growing up in a Punjabi family, she recalls the expectations placed on girls from an early age: helping, caregiving, keeping everyone happy and learning to prioritize other people's needs.
As an adult, she realized that fulfilling those expectations had gradually distanced her from her own happiness.
The conversation explores the fear many women experience when they begin setting boundaries. Will their marriage change? Will their family understand? Will friends judge them?
For Rashi, those fears did not unfold as expected. She describes her husband becoming one of her biggest supporters and her family benefiting from the changes she made.
She also shares practical ways to begin reclaiming joy: spending five to ten minutes alone in silence, choosing one meaningful activity, returning to forgotten interests and speaking openly with loved ones about personal needs.
The central message: Taking care of yourself doesn't have to mean caring less about the people you love.
About the Guest:
Rashi Kaur is the founder of The Joy Consultancy, a business focused on helping women reconnect with joy, personal agency and the freedom to prioritize their own wellbeing.
She describes her own journey from years of caregiving and people-pleasing toward greater self-awareness, self-compassion and intentional living.
Her work encourages women to question inherited expectations, release guilt and rediscover the interests and experiences that make them feel like themselves.
She also offers a Going First Quiz through her website to help women reflect on where they are in that process.
Key Takeaways:
Putting everyone else first can gradually disconnect women from their own interests, happiness and identity.
Family and cultural expectations can teach girls to associate caregiving with their personal worth.
Being the eldest daughter may involve pressure to keep others happy and manage their emotions.
A health scare prompted Rashi to reconsider how she was prioritizing herself.
Guilt and shame can persist even after women recognize that their needs matter.
Choosing yourself doesn't necessarily mean abandoning your responsibilities.
Supportive partners and family members may respond positively when they understand the changes you're making.
The guest recommends starting with five to ten minutes of quiet time each day.
Instead of changing everything at once, choose one activity that brings you joy.
Movement, yoga, painting, singing or even an uninterrupted cup of tea can be meaningful starting points.
Working mothers may experience guilt even when their professional lives bring them fulfillment.
Communicating your needs can help loved ones understand your decisions.
Reconnecting with childhood interests may help you rediscover parts of yourself you've neglected.
Self-care is not a guarantee that relationships will improve, but it can create opportunities for healthier conversations and boundaries.
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https://www.thejoyconsultant.co/ 
 
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What if the reason you're struggling as a father isn't because you lack motivation, discipline or strength?
What if your life simply doesn't have enough structure underneath it?
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, Rashmeet sits down with Tyler McAdams for an honest conversation about fatherhood, mental health, exhaustion, divorce, identity and the quiet pressure many men carry without talking about it.
Tyler works with fathers who feel overwhelmed, directionless or disappointed in themselves. His central argument is simple: when life becomes emotionally, mentally or financially chaotic, motivation becomes unreliable. Structure—routines, accountability, boundaries, clarity and consistent actions—is what can keep you moving. Pasted text
But structure doesn't mean turning your life into a perfectly color-coded calendar.
Tyler talks about simplifying instead: identifying what kind of life you actually want, choosing a few important things to accomplish each day, building routines that stabilize you, and recognizing your wins instead of ending every day focused on everything you didn't finish.
He also speaks candidly about divorce and separation, the temptation to stay trapped in the past, and why fathers sometimes need time to breathe before they're ready to rebuild.
And when the routine inevitably falls apart?
Tyler's message is that you haven't returned to zero. Go back to what worked, reconnect with supportive people and rebuild from experience rather than shame. Pasted text
For the father sitting alone wondering whether he is the problem, this conversation offers another possibility:
Maybe you don't need more motivation.
Maybe you need a life that makes it easier to become the father—and the man—you're trying to be.
About Tyler McAdams:
Tyler McAdams works with fathers navigating personal rebuilding, structure, accountability and life after difficult transitions.
Drawing partly from his own experience with divorce and separation, Tyler discusses helping men create clearer routines, rebuild confidence and surround themselves with supportive people.
He also references his Hero Circle community as a place where fathers can find accountability and connection.
Tyler says his primary online hub is Inspiring Father on Instagram, with the same handle on Facebook and TikTok. 
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/inspiringfather 
Key Takeaways:
Many exhausted fathers may mistake a lack of structure for a lack of motivation.
Trying to fix everything at once can create even more stress.
Tyler encourages fathers to simplify instead of continually adding more.
Motivation can disappear when life becomes emotionally, financially or mentally chaotic.
Structure can include routines, accountability, emotional regulation, standards and purpose.
Saying no to things that don't fit the life you're building can be part of creating structure.
Your system should fit your actual life rather than forcing you into someone else's productivity method.
Tyler recommends choosing roughly three to five important tasks rather than creating an overwhelming daily list. Pasted text
Record your wins instead of ending every day measuring only what remains unfinished.
Before building a system, get clear about the life you actually want.
Tyler describes this as performing a kind of life audit.
Fathers going through divorce or separation may need some space before immediately trying to rebuild everything.
If months pass and the same painful patterns continue, seeking appropriate support may help.
When your system falls apart, you don't necessarily need to start again from zero.
Go back to the routines and actions that previously helped.
Community and accountability can matter when consistency becomes difficult.
Emotional openness isn't weakness.
Fathers don't have to carry difficult seasons entirely by themselves.
Chapters:
00:05 The quiet exhaustion many fathers carry00:43 Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life01:24 Meet Tyler McAdams01:42 What does peace look like for a father?02:42 Why fathers quietly believe they're failing03:22 Trying to fix everything at once04:53 Living in the past after loss and separation06:23 Motivation problem vs. structure problem07:32 Why motivation disappears when life gets chaotic08:52 How to know when you need more structure10:51 What a badly structured week actually looks like11:26 Tyler's personal daily structure14:07 Structure doesn't mean a perfect calendar14:39 Start with clarity and a life audit16:45 When does a father need time to fall apart?16:57 Divorce, separation and knowing when to seek support18:50 What happens when your system collapses?19:50 You don't have to restart from zero21:42 A message for the father who thinks he's the problem21:59 Men, emotions and asking for help23:20 Where to connect with Tyler McAdams23:56 You are exhausted—not failing
 
Safety Note:
The episode briefly discusses suicide among men. Tyler encourages struggling men to talk about their emotions and seek help rather than remaining isolated.
 
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What if healing isn't a destination you finally reach, but a relationship you slowly rebuild with yourself?
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, RA Smith speaks with Brian Nugent about patience, resilience, empathy and the everyday work of becoming well from within. Pasted text
Brian shares the life-threatening health crisis that changed his perspective at 32. He recounts being diagnosed with peritonitis and septic shock and spending 18 days in hospital. He says the recovery that followed required extraordinary patience, including a highly restrictive diet that he describes maintaining for three years. Pasted text
That experience becomes the foundation for a broader conversation about healing. Brian argues that people often make the mistake of postponing happiness until they reach some imagined finish line. Instead, he encourages recognizing the smaller steps: starting today, making a healthier choice today, building a meaningful connection today or simply moving one step closer to where you want to be.
When someone feels exhausted or hopeless, Brian's first response isn't to immediately give them a solution. It's empathy.
His coaching framework begins by meeting someone where they are, understanding where they want to go, honestly identifying where they are now, and then gradually working on the gap between those two points.
And when setbacks happen? Brian's message is equally important: progress doesn't require perfection. What matters is knowing that support doesn't disappear precisely when life becomes difficult.
About Brian Nugent:
Brian Nugent describes himself in the episode as a mental-therapy coach whose work focuses on helping people improve their wellbeing through practical lifestyle, mindset and coaching approaches. He says much of his work involves high-achieving women and people dealing with exhaustion and burnout.
His website also provides information about his programs and a burnout assessment. Pasted text
Key Takeaways:
Healing doesn't need to be treated as a finish line.
Small improvements deserve recognition even when there's still a long way to go.
Brian believes healing is about the path and the stepping stones, not simply arriving at a final version of yourself.
His own health crisis taught him the importance of patience.
When someone is overwhelmed, immediately giving advice may not be what they need first.
Empathy comes before problem-solving in Brian's coaching approach.
Ask where someone wants to go, but also honestly establish where they are right now.
The work then becomes gradually closing the gap between those two points.
Setbacks don't automatically invalidate previous progress.
Support can matter most when someone is struggling, not when everything is going well.
Brian uses parenting as an analogy: showing up during difficult moments can communicate that support isn't conditional.
Daily choices around movement, sleep, stress, connection and wellbeing can become part of a longer healing process.
Chapters:
00:00 When the life you're living no longer feels right00:47 Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life01:31 Meet Brian Nugent02:01 Brian's morning routine: prayer, yoga and movement02:52 The life experience that changed everything03:31 Brian's health crisis at 3205:58 Peritonitis, septic shock and facing mortality07:24 An 18-day hospital stay and the beginning of recovery08:28 Looking back at your younger self with compassion09:21 The patience Brian discovered through recovery11:22 The biggest misconception about healing11:52 Why healing is a path, not a destination14:03 Where do you begin when your mind doesn't feel like home?14:35 Why empathy should come before solutions15:55 Where do you want to be?16:20 Where are you right now?16:45 Closing the gap one step at a time17:10 What happens when old patterns return?17:59 Why setbacks are part of being human18:45 Supporting someone when they're struggling20:24 Where to connect with Brian Nugent21:13 A closing reflection on coming back to yourself
 
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There is a kind of love that asks more of a person than they ever planned to give, and somewhere inside it, they meet a version of themselves they did not know existed. In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Rashmi talks with Dr. Amanda Wilson, an orthodontist, mother of two, and founder of StraightSmile Solutions, about the quiet chapters that rarely get named: motherhood, aging, and learning who you are after years of doing what was expected.
Amanda shares what it was like to go from student to doctor to wife to mother within a single year, and how she learned at age 51 that she is autistic after spending a lifetime keeping her head down and shrinking to avoid trouble. She talks about setting boundaries for the first time, what the way we treat our teeth quietly says about how we treat ourselves, and why a smile is really about whether a person believes they have the right to be seen. She closes with the practices that keep her steady: faith, nature, sisterhood, and putting your own oxygen mask on first.
About the Guest:
Dr. Amanda Wilson is an orthodontist with more than 25 years in dentistry, based in Hawaii, and the founder of StraightSmile Solutions, an online platform for doctor-to-doctor orthodontic education and consulting. She creates thousands of videos on growth and development, airways, and smile and facial growth for primary care dentists who see children. She is also a mother of two, and she received an autism diagnosis at age 51, which has reshaped how she understands herself, her boundaries, and her family.
Key Takeaways:
Motherhood often asks you to advocate for your child with confidence, even when the experts do not seem to have the answers that fit your child.
Going from student to doctor to wife to mother in a single year can leave little room to ask who you actually are. Many women meet themselves again only after the children have grown.
Autism in girls and women has long gone unrecognized, and many learn early to mask, stay quiet, and avoid getting in trouble.
A late diagnosis can be disorienting and freeing at once. Naming what you need and setting boundaries is taking your fair share of space, not taking up all the air in the room.
Your teeth and smile can reflect how you feel about yourself. Finding a kind dentist and taking small steps can help bring back confidence.
When everything gets heavy at once, a single small act, like standing in the grass or watching the waves, can keep life from collapsing under its own complexity.
Find your sisterhood. Someone out there is going through the same thing and can help.
Put your own oxygen mask on first. Taking care of yourself is what makes caring for others possible.
Connect With Dr. Amanda Wilson:
Website: straightsmilesolutions.comYouTube: StraightSmile Solutions (thousands of videos on growth, airways, and smiles; some content on dentistry and motherhood)Dentists with questions are welcome to reach out to her directly.
Episode Chapters:
00:00 A Love That Asks More Than You Planned00:45 Welcome and Meet Dr. Amanda Wilson01:46 A Slow Morning in Hawaii02:51 Motherhood and Advocating for Your Child04:29 From Student to Doctor to Mom in One Year06:12 Rethinking Autism and Neurodivergence07:14 Learning She Was Autistic at 5109:00 Growing Up Masked and What a Reunion Revealed10:11 Aging Well and Taking Your Fair Share of Space12:35 What Your Teeth Say About How You Treat Yourself14:42 One Small Shift for Anyone Hiding Their Smile15:29 Holding Motherhood, Aging, and Work All at Once16:37 Faith, Prayer, and Nature as Daily Anchors18:35 Find Your Sisterhood19:15 Put Your Oxygen Mask On First19:32 Where to Find Amanda20:21 Closing Reflections
 
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Some of the most exhausted people in the room are the ones who look like they have it all together. They hit every deadline, they have the right answer, and a quiet voice inside congratulates each win for about four seconds before pointing at the next thing they should already be doing. In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Rashmi sits down with mindset coach and author Jessica Smarro to talk about the hidden gap between how a life looks from the outside and how it actually feels from the inside.
Jessica introduces the arrival fallacy, the belief that the next goal will finally deliver the feeling we are chasing, and explains why the inner critic is better understood as a protector than an enemy. Together they unpack how perfectionism differs from excellence, why resistance is the first emotion people feel when they notice the pattern, and how a simple tool, the STEAR model, helps bring thoughts, emotions, and actions into view. They close with a question worth carrying into your evening: what is enough?
About the Guest:
Jessica Smarro is a mindset coach, author, and former therapist who works with high-achieving people who are privately exhausted by perfectionism and a harsh inner critic. She is the author of In Pursuit: Go After What You Want, Alive, Aligned, and Fully You, and the founder of a personal development company that helps ambitious people pursue their goals without abandoning themselves along the way. Her work draws on her own experience of being the "good girl" and achiever who looked successful on paper while feeling like she was living a half-lived life.
Key Takeaways:
The arrival fallacy is the belief that the next goal, promotion, or milestone will finally deliver the feeling we want. The horizon keeps moving.
High achievers often reach out only after a body signal, like anxiety or stress-related health problems, or a quiet realization that success does not feel the way they expected.
The inner critic is usually a protector that learned an unhelpful language. Building a relationship with it works better than declaring war on it.
Perfectionism is rooted in fear of vulnerability and rejection, while excellence is rooted in love of the work and a desire for quality.
Resistance to setting perfectionism down is common. Everything you have achieved was in spite of the harsh critic, not because of it.
The STEAR model (Situation, Thought, Emotion, Action, Result) helps you see which thoughts and feelings are driving your actions and what results they create.
Ask what the goal will give you, then what that will give you, until you reach a feeling. Then start cultivating that feeling now, while still pursuing the goal.
A powerful evening question for high achievers: what is enough?
Connect With Jessica Smarro:
Website: jessicasmarro.com (coaching)Instagram: @jessicasmarroBook: In Pursuit, available on Amazon in Kindle, paperback, hardcover, and audiobook
Episode Chapters:
00:00 The Quiet Exhaustion of High Achievers00:46 Welcome and Meet Jessica Smarro03:15 The Arrival Fallacy and the Gap Between Outside and Inside05:37 What Makes High Achievers Finally Reach Out06:50 Making Peace With the Inner Critic09:20 How Perfectionism Shows Up in Ordinary Days10:20 Perfectionism Versus Excellence12:43 Why Resistance Shows Up First14:34 Where to Begin: The STEAR Model17:36 The One Question to Ask Yourself: What Is Enough?19:10 Where to Find Jessica and Her Book
 
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⚠️ This episode includes an honest discussion of past suicidal ideation. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to a licensed mental health professional or a crisis line in your area.Davis Bain was a senior in Air Force ROTC, mechanical engineering degree nearly finished, and on track for a commission into the Space Force. Then a single training injury changed everything. A head trauma led to post-concussion syndrome, and what followed was years of chronic pain, cognitive fog, and a body that no longer felt like his own. In this conversation with host Nazish, Davis walks through what it actually feels like to lose the future you had planned for, and the slower, harder work of building a different one.
He talks candidly about the period when denial, physical suffering, and a damaged gut-brain connection pulled him into deep despair, including a season of suicidal ideation that he now speaks about from the other side, as a closed chapter rather than a current struggle. Davis shares what helped him find his way back: treating chronic pain as a whole-body and whole-mind problem, not just a symptom to manage, and eventually turning his story into his book, Chronic Pain Warrior. This episode is for anyone facing an injury, illness, or loss that rewired their identity, and for anyone who loves someone walking through it.
About the Guest:
Davis Bain is a former Air Force ROTC cadet and mechanical engineering student who was pursuing a commission into the U.S. Space Force before a training injury left him with post-concussion syndrome. He is the author of Chronic Pain Warrior, a book chronicling his journey through chronic pain, identity loss, and recovery. Davis now shares his story to help others navigate the mental health side of chronic illness and injury. Learn more at chronicpainwarrior.com.
Key Takeaways:
A single injury can permanently alter a life plan, and grieving that lost future is a necessary part of healing, not a detour from it.
Post-concussion syndrome and gut dysbiosis can both disrupt mood and cognition, showing how physical injury and mental health are deeply connected.
Denial is often the mind's first response to a body that suddenly doesn't work the way it used to.
Suicidal ideation tied to chronic pain is more common than people admit, and naming it honestly, after the fact, can help others feel less alone.
Recovery from chronic pain is rarely linear. It asks for patience with a body and mind that are both relearning how to function.
Turning a painful chapter into a book or a story can be part of reclaiming a sense of purpose after loss.
Connect With Davis Bain:
Website: chronicpainwarrior.comBook: Chronic Pain Warrior
Episode Chapters:
0:00 Why Chronic Pain Feels So Lonely00:45 Welcome and Meet Davis Bain02:36 Where Body Pain and Mental Pain Become One Story07:00 Living Between Denial and Overprotection11:33 The Shame and Identity Crisis of Slowing Down12:49 The Loneliness of Being Misunderstood18:11 How Loved Ones Can Actually Help20:52 Support That Protects Dignity and Autonomy23:14 Where to Find Davis and His Book24:06 Closing Words: You Are a Warrior
 
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In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Nazish talks with Oliver Glozik, founder of Harmonica Ayahuasca Retreat in Colombia, about the subconscious as a loud, crowded room most people avoid opening for years. Oliver talks candidly about the fear that comes up in facing one's own inner material, the important distinction he draws between fear and actual danger, and how curiosity, not forced bravery, has carried him through his own ceremonial work with ayahuasca.
The conversation moves into what plant medicine actually is beyond the mysticism, the chemistry and tradition behind ayahuasca, and why the real work happens not during a ceremony but in the ordinary decisions that follow it. Oliver and Nazish also talk about holding space for both modern medicine and ancient plant wisdom without pitting them against each other, and Oliver shares the story of running a retreat for a single guest early in his business, a decision that did not make sense financially but that he credits with opening the door to the growth that followed.
About the Guest:Oliver Glozik is the founder of Harmonica Ayahuasca Retreat near Medellin, Colombia, where he has led ceremonial plant medicine work for over four years within the Kamsa Biya indigenous tradition. His work sits at the intersection of subconscious exploration, plant medicine, and entrepreneurship as a spiritual path.
Key Takeaways:
A useful first step in facing inner material is distinguishing fear, which often comes loaded with the mind's interpretations, from actual physical danger, which is a separate and much rarer thing.
Curiosity can be a more sustainable motivator than forcing yourself past fear. Taking one more step out of a comfort zone is rarely regretted after the fact.
Ayahuasca is a brew of two Amazonian plants, one carrying DMT and the other MAO inhibitors that extend its effects over several hours, used ceremonially for thousands of years in the Amazon.
A plant medicine ceremony is essentially an unfiltered conversation with yourself. The real transformation comes not from the conversation itself but from the decisions made afterward, in ordinary daily life.
Modern medicine and ancestral plant wisdom are not in competition. A significant share of modern medications are derived from plants, and both systems can hold value for different people and different moments.
A decision that does not make financial or logical sense in the moment, like running a retreat for a single paying guest, can be exactly the kind of trust-based choice that opens the door to growth later.
Connect With Oliver Glozik:
Retreat: Harmonica Ayahuasca Retreat, Colombia
Website: ayahuasca-retreat.com
YouTube: search Harmonica Retreat
Episode Chapters:00:00 - Cold open: the subconscious as a loud, crowded room00:47 - Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life and introducing Oliver Glozik02:16 - Disclaimer: personal views, not medical advice02:37 - Facing the fear of what's behind the door06:43 - What plant medicine actually is, without the mysticism09:01 - Why the real work begins the morning after a ceremony12:14 - Ancient plant wisdom and modern medicine, not a competition17:39 - What this work looks like on an ordinary, unremarkable day18:20 - The retreat with one guest that changed everything24:06 - How to connect with Oliver Glozik and Harmonica Retreat
 
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In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Niharika talks with psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapist Marie Derome about one of the most common and least discussed parenting myths: the idea that love for a new baby should arrive instantly and completely. Marie, a former BBC World Service correspondent and author of What Your Baby Wants You to Know, explains why bonding is a two-way relationship that takes time to build, much like falling in love with a partner, and why ordinary ambivalence toward a baby, finding them boring or demanding at times, is a healthy, normal part of that relationship rather than a sign of failure.
The conversation moves into what happens when bonding is harder than ordinary ambivalence, particularly after a traumatic birth, using Marie's metaphor of leaving the hospital with a new baby and a new pair of glasses whose lenses are shaped by our own history. She and Niharika also get into the neuroscience of the first two years of life, why early repeated interactions build a literal sense of safety in a baby's developing brain, and how parenting a baby often means re-parenting one's own inner child at the same time.
About the Guest:Marie Derome is a psychoanalytic child and adolescent psychotherapist with over twenty years of clinical experience and a former BBC World Service correspondent. She is the author of What Your Baby Wants You to Know: The Art and Science of Bonding with Your Child, and works online with parents around the world on bonding and attachment.
Key Takeaways:
The idea that love for a baby should be instant and constant is a myth. Bonding is a two-way relationship that takes time, interaction, and getting to know each other, much like falling in love with a partner.
Ordinary ambivalence toward a baby, finding them boring, demanding, or annoying at times, is healthy and normal. The important thing is being able to move between loving and frustrated feelings rather than getting stuck in either one.
A difficult or traumatic birth can distort how a parent perceives their baby's cries, sometimes hearing accusation or failure instead of a simple need for closeness, which changes how warmly they are able to respond.
The first two years of life are a critical window because the brain is highly plastic then, and repeated small interactions, like smiling and responding to a baby, build the neural pathways for a lasting sense of safety.
Parenting can be reparative. By caring for a real baby, a parent is often also caring for their own inner child, especially when their own childhood experience of being parented was difficult.
A few sessions of psychotherapy focused specifically on a difficult birth experience can meaningfully shift how a parent sees and responds to their baby, even when the underlying bonding struggle feels entrenched.
Connect With Marie Derome:
Book: What Your Baby Wants You to Know: The Art and Science of Bonding with Your Child (available on Kindle and audiobook)
Website: mariederome.org
Instagram: Marie Derome Psychotherapy
Episode Chapters:00:00 - Cold open: the quiet, bewildering moments parents don't talk about00:46 - Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life and introducing Marie Derome02:03 - Debunking the myth of instant, 24/7 love for a new baby06:43 - Why ordinary ambivalence toward your baby is healthy, not a failure13:14 - The glasses metaphor: how birth trauma distorts how we see our baby19:06 - Why the first two years are a critical window for brain development34:38 - Parenting as re-parenting your own inner child36:05 - How to connect with Marie Derome and her book
 
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In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Nazish talks with author Aaron Ryan about the moment a hobby starts asking for more than a hobby is supposed to ask for, and what happens inside a person while they build something real out of it. Aaron, who recently published his fiftieth book, describes writing as a calling rather than a hobby, something that nagged at him until he answered it, and talks candidly about the mental cost of living inside the worlds he creates, including keeping his fictional characters' birthdays on his real calendar.
The conversation moves into the practical and protective side of a creative career: the scams and predatory offers that target indie authors and podcasters, how Aaron filters and spots them, and why thick skin and patience matter more than talent in the long run. He and Nazish also talk about keeping family as the anchor underneath the work, the private, unpublished journal Aaron keeps for his sons, and why surrendering your own timeline is often the real adjustment that keeps a creative calling sustainable instead of exhausting.
About the Guest:Aaron Ryan is an author who has published fifty books, including the Dissonance saga and the Talisman saga, and works as a voice actor to support his writing career. A member of the Authors Guild, he is active in helping other authors and podcasters recognize and avoid predatory offers and scams targeting creators.
Key Takeaways:
There is a real difference between a hobby and a calling. A hobby is something you want to do, while a calling nags at your schedule and priorities until you answer it.
Living inside the worlds you create has a real mental cost. Protecting family time and personal boundaries is essential for a creative career to last decades rather than burn out in a few years.
Predatory offers targeting authors and podcasters are common, often arriving through unsolicited email, and usually promise guaranteed sales, reviews, or adaptations for a fee no legitimate offer would require.
Assertiveness in a creative career looks like committing to the long haul rather than dabbling, treating the work as a business pursuit rather than something to wade into occasionally.
Surrendering your own timeline matters because the desire to give up a creative pursuit usually comes from dreams not manifesting on your own schedule, not from the dream itself being wrong.
A mantra, a filtering system for scam emails, and a hard line between work and family time are concrete, repeatable tools for staying sane inside a demanding creative career.
Connect With Aaron Ryan:
Website: authoraaronryan.com
Private author community: authoraaronryangroup.com
Episode Chapters:00:00 - Cold open: when a hobby starts asking for more than a hobby should00:47 - Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life and introducing Aaron Ryan01:44 - The inner shift from hobby to calling04:45 - The mental cost of being the engine, steering wheel, and roadmap06:47 - The difference between burning out in three years and writing meaningfully at year fifteen08:31 - Spotting and protecting against predatory offers and scams13:08 - Who Aaron is when he is not producing: daddy, husband, provider15:30 - What a sustainable, creatively honest life actually looks like19:00 - One small adjustment for a creator at the edge of giving up21:42 - The one thing to walk away with when turning a hobby into a calling22:54 - How to connect with Aaron Ryan and his author community
 
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In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Nazish talks with Isa Lara Marie about the quiet ambient pressure of modern life to always be producing something, and the soul that waits patiently in the background, rarely asked how it is actually doing. Isa traces her own turning point back to her early twenties, when debilitating physical symptoms that modern medicine could not explain pushed her to turn inward and commit to healing and finding herself. She describes how she had been spiritually bypassing her own difficult emotions by staying busy and overachieving, a pattern she had to consciously unlearn.
The conversation moves into what balance actually feels like in the body rather than as some perfect, permanent state, and into small, doable practices, like a few conscious breaths done anywhere, a traffic light, a checkout line, a six-minute gap between calls, that can shift a nervous system out of fight-or-flight and into a calmer state. Isa and Nazish also get honest about spiritual bypassing in its subtler forms: using spiritual language to override boundaries around giving, or gently talking oneself out of feeling grief, and why staying present to real human emotion, without being swept away by it, is part of genuine spiritual groundedness.
About the Guest:
 Isa Lara Marie is a spiritual teacher and author who focuses on staying grounded and present in a world built to keep people constantly producing. After a health crisis in her early twenties that conventional medicine could not resolve, she turned to inner healing and has since developed a body of teaching she calls Integrating Infinity. She is the author of the book First Light.
Key Takeaways:
Balance is not a fixed, perfect state to arrive at. It is a felt sense in the body, something people return to again and again rather than hold onto permanently.
Spiritual bypassing can be subtle: using spiritual language or beliefs to override real emotions, like dismissing grief as "not real" or feeling obligated to give endlessly because that feels more spiritual.
Boundaries are compatible with being a genuinely spiritual or giving person; depleting yourself to give to others is not a requirement of spirituality, it is a pattern worth examining.
Short, consciously breathed moments, even just a few breaths at a traffic light or in a checkout line, can shift the body from a stressed, sympathetic state toward a calmer, parasympathetic one.
Letting go of the idea of perfection and embracing one's own uniqueness, the way a tree's scars and variations are simply part of its beauty, is part of staying grounded rather than striving.
Reconnecting with the body does not require a retreat or a formal practice. It can be as small as pausing with a cup of tea, gazing out a window, and breathing consciously for a moment.
Connect With Isa Lara Marie:
Website: isalaramarie.com
Teaching: Integrating Infinity
Book: First Light
Episode Chapters:
 00:00 - Cold open: the soul that hasn't been asked how it's doing in weeks
 00:45 - Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life and introducing Isa Lara Marie
 01:37 - Disclaimer: personal views, not medical advice
 01:37 - The health crisis that pushed Isa to turn inward
 04:46 - Redefining balance as a felt sense, not a destination
 10:06 - Letting go of perfection and embracing uniqueness
 12:29 - A real-life practice for the six minutes between calls
 15:51 - Why this kind of small practice changes the nervous system over time
 17:54 - Where Isa has caught herself spiritually bypassing
 20:38 - The subtler forms of spiritual bypassing, like dismissing grief
 22:09 - How to connect with Isa Lara Marie, Integrating Infinity, and First Light
 
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In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Nazish talks with therapist Liz Chelak about a shift she sees over and over in her practice: people spend years in traditional talk therapy identifying and changing their thoughts, only to discover that thoughts are downstream reports from the nervous system, not the source of the problem. Liz explains how a nervous system shaped by past stress or trauma can keep responding to danger that is no longer present, showing up as constant low-grade anxiety, exhaustion that sleep does not fix, or relationship patterns that repeat no matter how much insight a person gains in talk therapy alone.
The conversation moves into concrete, doable practice, including a simple extended-exhale technique Liz uses herself and teaches clients to signal safety to the body in calm moments rather than only during a crisis. She and Zeeshan also talk candidly about the line between nervous system awareness and a new form of self-rejection dressed up as self-improvement, and why Liz's Sovereign Body Method is built around helping people become the leaders of their own lives, learning to use their feelings as information rather than treating their own reactions as evidence of being broken.
About the Guest:Liz Chelak is a therapist who works with the nervous system as the central piece of mental and emotional health. She developed the Sovereign Body Method to help clients regulate their nervous system, reconnect with their bodies, and use their feelings as guidance rather than something to fix or fear. Her approach moves beyond traditional talk therapy toward somatic, body-based work that she teaches through her practice, Evolve Therapy Counseling.
Key Takeaways:
Thoughts are downstream reports from the nervous system, not the root cause of anxiety or low mood, which is why changing thoughts alone often produces only short-term relief.
A nervous system shaped by past stress or trauma can keep responding to danger that is no longer present, showing up as low-grade anxiety or exhaustion that sleep does not fix.
A simple extended-exhale practice, done with intention and repeated a few times a day, signals safety to the body and can meaningfully reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms over time.
Reactions, triggers, and relationship patterns are not evidence of being broken. They are a conditioned nervous system doing exactly what it learned to do to survive.
Nervous system practices should be done in calm, neutral moments rather than only during high stress, so the goal becomes changing the body's baseline state rather than just coping in the moment.
There is a real risk of turning self-improvement into self-rejection. The Sovereign Body Method aims for people to become the leaders of their own lives by using regulated feelings as information, not another project to perfect.
Connect With Liz Chelak:
Website: evolvetherapycounseling.com
Instagram: Liz Chelak
Episode Chapters:00:00 - Cold open: the nervous system as the floor underneath mental health00:50 - Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life and introducing Liz Chelak01:40 - Disclaimer: personal views, not medical advice01:40 - Why the nervous system, not the thoughts, is the real foundation03:26 - Why talk therapy alone often isn't enough04:32 - Reading low-grade anxiety and unexplained exhaustion correctly06:34 - Reframing reactions as a conditioned nervous system, not being broken09:07 - A simple daily practice: the extended exhale11:55 - The science behind why the exhale works15:24 - The line between nervous system awareness and self-rejection19:02 - One tiny practice to try tomorrow morning before checking your phone21:22 - How to connect with Liz Chelak and Evolve Therapy Counseling
 
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In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Rashmeet talks with Jon Symes about the particular kind of ache that shows up in people who are, by every outward measure, doing everything right. Jon traces his own turning point back about fifteen years, when a social venture he tried to build in Ecuador failed, and the failure cracked open an identity he had built around always being the person who could fix things. What followed was a long, honest look at the unconscious stories he and so many high-functioning people carry, stories that quietly run the show until they stop working, which Jon reframes as the real definition of a midlife crisis, one that can arrive at almost any age.
The conversation moves into how these hidden narratives, like "I am what I produce," show up as stuckness, frustration, or a dissonance between a life that looks good on paper and one that feels empty from the inside. Jon talks about learning to listen to the body's signals rather than overriding them, the self-compassion it took to stop treating his own perceived flaws as sabotage, and why he does not encourage people to blow up their lives in response. Instead, he points toward reconnecting with the qualities, compassion, curiosity, creativity, kindness, and strength, that he believes every person is seeded with before culture's scripts start to dampen them.
About the Guest:Jon Symes works with people navigating midlife transitions, helping them recognize the unconscious stories shaping their choices, relationships, and sense of self-worth. His own path included building a career around solving problems, a failed social venture in Ecuador that forced a reckoning with that identity, and years of work developing the self-compassion and self-awareness he now brings to his coaching.
Key Takeaways:
A midlife crisis, in Jon's framing, is simply the moment the stories we've been living by stop working, and that moment can arrive almost any time from age thirty onward, not on a fixed schedule.
High-functioning people often carry a story like "I am what I produce," which quietly ties their sense of worth to output and makes slowing down or reflecting feel like failure.
The body tends to register dissonance, through depression, low energy, or lethargy, long before the conscious mind is willing to name that something isn't working.
Noticing a limiting narrative starts with locating the pain or stuckness in daily life: where the same strategy keeps failing, or where frustration keeps repeating.
Reconnecting with purpose doesn't require detonating a life, a job, a relationship, or a move to a new country; the deeper shift is letting go of inherited stories rather than carrying them to a new setting.
Jon encourages self-compassion toward the parts of ourselves that seem to sabotage or delay progress, treating them as an inner landscape to tend rather than a flaw to fix.
Connect With Jon Symes:
Focus: Midlife transitions, identity, and unconscious narrative work
https://www.jonsymes.com/ 
https://www.wholeandfree.me/free  - The Mid-Life Reset Challenge 5 days. One clear next chapter. If you’re feeling stuck or off track, this free challenge will help you reset with clarity, purpose, and energy.
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Episode Chapters:00:00 - Cold open: the ache that hides inside a life that looks fine on paper00:48 - Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life and introducing Jon Symes01:49 - What quietly nourishes Jon right now02:30 - The Ecuador social venture that cracked open his identity04:13 - Finding compassion for the parts of himself that seemed to sabotage him05:07 - Why high-functioning people end up emptier than expected08:39 - What changes when someone admits the good-on-paper life doesn't feel good09:53 - Making the unconscious narrative real in daily life11:45 - The most common hidden story in successful people: "I am what I produce"13:08 - Reframing midlife as an awakening instead of a punchline16:11 - Why Jon does not recommend detonating your life to reconnect with purpose
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In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Rashmi sits down with Kimberly Crowe, founder of Speakers Playhouse, to talk about the quiet, inherited stories people carry about who they are and what they're allowed to want. Kimberly traces her own path from seventeen years inside a Fortune 1000 company, including the "golden handcuffs" of a job that paid well but no longer fit, into entrepreneurship, where she built a million-dollar business only to find herself in what she calls a "golden jail cell" of her own making. The turn came through an unexpected, joy-first side project teaching audiobook narration with her teenage son, which became the seed for Speakers Playhouse and a new rule for her work going forward: if it isn't fun, it isn't worth doing.
The conversation then moves into the mechanics of actually shifting a limiting narrative, not through sweeping affirmations that the mind rejects outright, but through smaller, believable adjustments that the brain can accept and build on. Kimberly and Rashmi talk about "I'm not ready yet" as one of the most common stories people hide behind, why trying to leap straight to a completely new identity backfires, and the grounding question Kimberly returns to again and again: whose story is this, really, and does it still belong in your life.
About the Guest:Kimberly Crowe is the founder of Speakers Playhouse, where she helps coaches, authors, entrepreneurs, and speakers build the confidence to get on stages and podcasts and share their message. Before that, she spent seventeen years in corporate leadership at a Fortune 1000 company and later built her own million-dollar business, experience that now shapes her practical, no-nonsense approach to helping people step into visibility without burning out in the process.
Key Takeaways:
"I'm not ready yet" is one of the most common limiting stories people tell themselves, whether they're updating a resume or getting behind a microphone, and waiting for readiness often means waiting forever.
Confidence tends to build through repetition, not preparation. Getting it a little wrong a few times is usually what makes someone feel ready, not the other way around.
Trying to force a dramatic identity shift, like telling yourself "I'm a millionaire" while staring at an empty bank account, rarely works. Smaller, believable shifts the brain can actually accept tend to stick.
Recreating the same pressures in a new form is easy to miss. Kimberly's own escape from corporate "golden handcuffs" led her straight into a self-built "golden jail cell" as a business owner.
A simple grounding question, whose story is this, can help someone recognize when they're still carrying a narrative handed to them by a parent, teacher, or old classmate rather than one that's actually theirs.
Joy became Kimberly's non-negotiable filter for new work after a fun side project with her son outperformed years of "serious" business building.
Connect With Kimberly Crowe:
Company: Speakers Playhouse
Website: speakersplayhouse.com
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Episode Chapters:00:00 - Cold open: the stories we inherit and rehearse until they feel like facts00:49 - Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life and introducing Kimberly Crowe01:51 - A small story Kimberly has gently set down02:43 - The corporate years: climbing a ladder she didn't actually want08:43 - Where old narratives hide in daily life, and the first sign one is running10:43 - Affirmations versus real narrative shift, and where people go wrong12:29 - A simple exercise: naming the story you're ready to outgrow13:40 - The grounding question: whose story is this?14:35 - How to connect with Kimberly Crowe and Speakers Playhouse
 
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In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Nazish talks with Dr. Dan Neissany, founder of TBP Strategies and author of I'm The Problem, about what leadership actually costs a person on the inside, beyond the polished version shared on LinkedIn. Dan traces his own turning point back to a Tony Robbins seminar question, what do you actually know about the people you work with, and the shame he felt realizing the honest answer was nothing, despite years of working alongside the same team.
The conversation moves into the harder, more personal layers underneath leadership struggles: the ego that disguises self-interest as service, the discomfort of discovering your own blind spots, and why most people do not change simply because they rarely build an honest action plan around what they learn about themselves. Dan and Nazish also talk through what it means to build a business that serves a life rather than consuming it, including Dan's own quarterly practice of assessing health, relationships, and purpose using a wheel of life exercise.
About the Guest:
Dr. Dan Neissany is the founder of TBP Strategies and author of I'm The Problem: Take Your Leadership Skills From Toxic to Transformative. With a background in physiotherapy, he grew an organization from a small team into one with over one hundred fifty employees, and now works at the intersection of leadership development, personal growth, and entrepreneurship, helping founders and operators build businesses that serve their lives rather than consume them.
Key Takeaways:
A single honest question, what do you actually know about the people you work with, can expose how disconnected a leader has become from their own team, regardless of how many hours they are putting in.
Working long hours can function as a kind of badge that masks deeper leadership gaps, especially when team members are not growing or advancing under that leadership.
It is possible to tell yourself you are sacrificing for your team while actually chasing personal accolades and validation. Recognizing that gap requires an uncomfortable level of self-honesty.
Most people do not change their behavior simply because they rarely build a concrete, honest action plan around what self-reflection reveals, so insight alone rarely leads anywhere.
Self-awareness has real limits. Outside, trusted feedback, from a coach, partner, or colleague, often reveals blind spots a person genuinely cannot see about themselves, much like reading a label from inside the bottle.
A quarterly wheel of life check, covering health, finances, relationships, contribution, and spirituality, helps a founder catch misalignment before burnout forces the reckoning instead.
Connect With Dr. Dan Neissany:
Company: TBP Strategies
Website: tbpstrategies.com
Book: I'm The Problem: Take Your Leadership Skills From Toxic to Transformative
Available on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram
Episode Chapters:
00:00 - Cold open: the version of leadership that never makes it to LinkedIn00:56 - Welcome to Healthy Mind, Healthy Life and introducing Dr. Dan Neissany01:34 - The moment Dan realized leadership would demand something internal05:22 - The slow building of self-trust behind the competence story09:28 - Why so many leaders avoid asking themselves the hard question11:50 - The moment a leader stops blaming the team for their own gaps16:42 - The ketchup bottle analogy and the limits of self-awareness18:39 - Building a business that serves a life instead of swallowing it23:11 - Redefining success beyond financial status and title25:25 - How to connect with Dr. Dan Neissany and TBP Strategies
 
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