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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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Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
In this eye-opening episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Sana welcomes medical intuitive, cosmic mediator, and author, Darlene Van de Grift. With over 35 years of experience, Darlene shares her unique perspective on the body's innate wisdom and how unresolved emotional and spiritual issues can manifest as physical ailments. Together, they explore the fascinating connections between past lives, trauma, and the body's ability to heal. Darlene reveals how her work helps individuals uncover the root causes of their health challenges by tapping into interdimensional insights and the energy imprints carried across lifetimes.
About the Guest:
Darlene Van de Grift is a distinguished medical intuitive, cosmic mediator, and medium with decades of experience helping individuals find clarity and healing. Her career integrates practical wisdom with insights from the cosmic realm, addressing challenges related to health, relationships, spirituality, and past lives. With a holistic approach to healing, Darlene uses her intuitive abilities to help clients identify the root causes of their ailments and resolve them, often tracing the issues back to past-life experiences.
Key Takeaways:
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Interdimensional Healing: Understanding that we live in many dimensions at once can help us identify the origins of physical and emotional pain. Past-life traumas can leave imprints on our current health.
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The Body's Language: Physical ailments often originate from unresolved emotional or spiritual issues. Darlene explains how the body speaks to us through symptoms when these issues are not addressed.
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Healing Beyond the Present: By tracing current health issues back to past lives, we can uncover the root causes of illness and work towards holistic healing.
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Embracing Emotional Expression: Repressed emotions, such as trauma from childhood or past experiences, can manifest as physical symptoms later in life if not properly expressed and released.
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The Power of Consciousness: Tapping into a deeper level of consciousness and understanding our multi-dimensional nature can empower us to heal not just the body, but the mind and spirit as well.

Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Breaking the Silence: Navigating Mental Health for a Balanced Life with Dr. John Oda
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
Saturday Sep 14, 2024
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik welcomes Dr. John Oda, a mental health expert with over 35 years of experience. Dr. Oda has worked with a diverse range of individuals, from at-risk teens to high-performing entrepreneurs, and has shared his expertise on prominent platforms like Oprah and Friends. Together, they explore the intersection between mental health and personal growth, diving into the challenges posed by conditions like anxiety, PTSD, and bipolar disorder. Dr. Oda also shares his inspiring personal story of overcoming a severe stuttering problem and discusses practical strategies for managing stress and anxiety in day-to-day life.
About the Guest:
Dr. John Oda is a seasoned expert in mental health and business growth, with a career spanning over three decades. He has worked with renowned organizations like BMW, Tony Robbins, and more, and his appearances on shows like Meet the Giants have inspired many. Beyond his impressive resume, Dr. Oda is a passionate advocate for breaking through emotional barriers to achieve both personal and professional success. His own journey of overcoming a severe stuttering issue in childhood has shaped his empathetic and empowering approach to helping others find balance in their mental health.
Key Takeaways:
- Deal with Issues Early: Unresolved emotional challenges from youth can manifest more intensely in adulthood, affecting every area of life. Dr. Oda emphasizes the importance of addressing mental health early on.
- Practical Stress Management: Simple, actionable strategies such as positive self-talk, modeling successful behaviors, and reframing negative thoughts can significantly reduce stress and anxiety.
- Overcoming Emotional Barriers for Success: Dr. Oda discusses how breaking through emotional challenges is key to unlocking professional success, sharing stories of individuals who have improved both their mental health and business performance.
- Positive Self-Labeling: Dr. Oda encourages listeners to avoid negative labels such as "stressed" or "depressed," and instead focus on labeling themselves with empowering, positive traits that lead to growth.
- Mindset Shifts Lead to Lasting Change: Through practices like Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Dr. Oda shows how changing your mindset can create rapid, impactful transformations in both personal and professional life.

Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, your host Avik is joined by Tammy Delaney, a retired registered nurse, executive wellness coach, and heart breath practitioner. Together, they explore the profound connection between our breath and heart, revealing how conscious breathing can be a powerful tool for stress management. Tammy shares her journey from nursing and emergency management to discovering the transformative impact of breathwork, and how it helps people reconnect with their true selves. Tune in for practical tips on managing stress through breathwork and achieving a balanced, joyful life.
About the Guest:
Tammy Delaney has spent over a decade in critical care nursing, public health, and emergency management. After experiencing burnout, she embarked on a personal healing journey, discovering the power of heart-centered breathwork. Now, as an executive wellness and heart breath coach, Tammy helps leaders and professionals overcome stress, anxiety, and burnout. Her science-based, heart-centered approach has transformed lives by guiding individuals to reconnect with their bodies and hearts, allowing them to manage stress more effectively.
Key Takeaways:
- The Power of Breath: Learn how the breath is the bridge between the mind and body, helping regulate stress and emotions through simple, conscious breathing techniques.
- Heart-Breath Connection: Discover the science behind heart intelligence and how connecting to the heart through breath can calm the nervous system and foster emotional balance.
- Practical Techniques for Stress Relief: Tammy introduces easy-to-implement breathing exercises, such as nasal breathing and box breathing, to manage stress in everyday situations.
- Addressing Burnout: Understand the role of breathwork in healing burnout by reconnecting with yourself and realigning your actions with your true desires.
- Breaking Misconceptions: Explore how breathwork is rooted in science, debunking the myth that it’s merely a mystical or "woo-woo" practice.

Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Sana delves into the high-pressure world of corporate leadership with guest Sami Hero, a seasoned general management executive with vast experience across Europe and North America. Sami shares how the unlikely practice of golf, known for its patience and mental discipline, has become his secret weapon for managing stress and maintaining mental clarity. He discusses the cultural contrasts between work environments in the US and Finland, and how golf provides him with both relaxation and solutions to challenges in his demanding executive roles.
About the Guest: Sami Hero is a versatile executive with a rich background in marketing, sales, and analytics. Having worked in various leadership roles across Europe and North America, Sami brings a unique perspective on balancing the pressures of a global career with personal well-being. Speaking five languages and now based in Finland, Sami uses golf not only as a physical activity but as a mental reset. His approach to applying the principles of focus and mindfulness from golf to his professional life offers valuable insights for anyone navigating a busy executive career.
Key Takeaways:
- Mental Clarity Through Golf: Golf can serve as a powerful tool for clearing the mind, offering both physical activity and a space for subconscious problem-solving.
- Balancing Work and Life: The importance of setting boundaries between work and personal life, a lesson Sami learned from Finland's work culture, where free time is highly valued.
- Adapting to Stress: Sami shares his experience working in high-pressure environments like New York City, and how learning to slow down in Finland helped him manage stress more effectively.
- Patience and Focus in Golf and Leadership: The parallels between the patience required in golf and the focus needed in executive leadership roles, especially in sales and marketing.
- Cultural Perspectives on Work: Sami discusses how different cultural approaches to work, especially in the US versus Finland, shape stress levels and personal well-being.

Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
In this enlightening episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, host Avik Chakraborty is joined by certified clinical hypnotherapist, yoga instructor, and holistic coach, Tara O'Neill. Together, they explore the transformative power of hypnotherapy for mental health and emotional well-being. Tara shares her personal journey of overcoming burnout through alternative healing methods, including yoga and hypnosis. She delves into the science behind hypnotherapy and how it taps into the subconscious mind to reprogram beliefs, reduce stress, and promote healing. Tara also explains how she combines ancient wisdom with cutting-edge neuroscience to create lasting changes for her clients.
About the Guest: Tara O'Neill is a clinical hypnotherapist and holistic wellness coach with a passion for integrating ancient healing practices with modern neuroscience. Her journey began when traditional medicine failed her, leading her to explore sacred healing sites and alternative modalities. With years of experience in mind-body healing, Tara empowers her clients to unlock the power of the subconscious mind to heal emotional wounds and achieve mental clarity and physical wellness.
Key Takeaways:
- The Power of the Subconscious Mind: Learn how hypnotherapy accesses the subconscious to heal deeply rooted emotional wounds and reprogram limiting beliefs.
- Healing through Breathwork: Discover how breathwork and yoga practices can move energy through the body and support emotional well-being.
- Integration of Ancient Wisdom & Neuroscience: Understand how Tara merges centuries-old healing traditions with modern neuroscience to help clients achieve lasting transformation.
- Tools for Overcoming Burnout: Gain insights into how alternative healing methods can combat stress, anxiety, and burnout, and lead to overall well-being.
- Practical Steps for Emotional Healing: Explore simple yet powerful tools such as breathwork and mindfulness practices that can be applied in daily life for mental and emotional balance.

Friday Sep 13, 2024
Friday Sep 13, 2024
In this episode of Healthy Mind, Healthy Life, your host Sana sits down with Morgan Q. Anderson, EA, a seasoned tax expert with over 24 years of experience representing clients before the IRS and state tax agencies. Morgan sheds light on the often intimidating world of tax debt and how fear and anxiety about finances can significantly impact our mental well-being. Drawing from her extensive experience and insights from her book Tax Debt Rule #1: There's Always a Solution, Morgan shares practical strategies for managing tax debt without losing peace of mind. Listeners will walk away feeling empowered and equipped to face their financial challenges with confidence.
About the Guest:
Morgan Q. Anderson, EA, has dedicated over two decades to helping individuals and businesses resolve their tax debt issues, from income and payroll taxes to sales taxes. She is the author of Tax Debt Rule #1: There's Always a Solution, a guide for anyone feeling overwhelmed by tax debt. Known for her calm and compassionate approach, Morgan's mission is to alleviate the fear and paralysis often associated with tax debt, showing her clients that there is always a path to resolution.
Key Takeaways:
- Address the Problem Early: Ignoring tax debt only exacerbates the issue, leading to increased penalties and stress. Take proactive steps to face the problem head-on.
- Don’t Let Fear Paralyze You: Tax agencies may seem intimidating, but maintaining your power position and approaching the issue calmly can help alleviate fear.
- Emotional Impact of Tax Debt: Financial stress can lead to serious mental and physical health issues. Seeking help and addressing the problem can reduce this burden.
- Practical Steps to Overcome Tax Debt: Morgan provides actionable advice on how to start resolving tax debt, emphasizing that no situation is hopeless.
- There's Always a Solution: Regardless of how overwhelming the situation may seem, Morgan encourages listeners to remember that every tax debt issue has a resolution.

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