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. Want to be a guest on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life? Send Avik a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/avik
Episodes
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 cancer.” That sentence is everywhere, and it can land like a slap when you’re the one living it. I sit down with Alicia Baca Rush, speaker, author of The Good Kind of Cancer Turning Pain into P...
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 to me?” It’s “Who am I without what I built?” I sit down with Dr. Ken Kaufman, a sports medicine physician and motivational speaker, to talk about how collapse can become calli...
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), former Zen Buddhist monk, lifelong musician, and author of The World Peace Diet, to unpack a simple but challenging idea: a quiet mind is built through conscious living, not...
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, and it’s why we brought on Andre Crabb, a former Silicon Valley software engineer who rebuilt his life around somatic coaching, energy work, and what he calls the Mind Works Me...
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 behind self-sabotage and to replace shame with a clear, workable framework for change.
Pat shares how early pain pushed her to look inward, and how decades of helpin...
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. We slow that story down and name what’s really happening: emotional exhaustion and spiritual tiredness often show up as silence long before they show up as collapse.
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 what happens when you love someone through an impossible season and you quietly wonder if you’re allowed to fall apart too.
Julie shares the emotional reality behind ...
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 and personal reinvention actually feel like when you stop pretending it is all clarity and momentum. If you have ever changed jobs, questioned your direction, or felt shaken ...
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 about identity, conditioning, trauma, and the slow work of becoming real again.
We start with the smallest doorway back to yourself: an ordinary morning. Lauretta ex...
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 stepping aside while a new self is still being built.
We sit down with Mandy Cai, founder of The New School of Motherhood, to talk about motherhood as a deep identity sh...
🛟 A Note Before You Listen
This episode contains honest discussion of emotional abuse, toxic relationships, mental manipulation, and the experience of leaving an abusive partner. Some parts may feel close to home, especially if you are currently in, or recently out of, a difficult relationship.
If you find yourself overwhelmed at any point, please pause the episode. You are not alone, and you don't have to ...
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’re naming that gap without sugar-coating it, then getting practical about what actually shifts when progress feels stuck.
Ben Oofana joins us to talk about why cognit...
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 Witten (House, Pretty Little Liars, Law and Order, CSI: Miami) to talk about the inner narratives that shape our mental health and emotional wellbeing, often without us noticing....
Trophies make great photos, but they do not keep you steady when grief hits, your confidence cracks, or life feels flat on a random Tuesday. We sit down with Jennifer “Jen” Hendershott" , a four-time fitness champion, humanitarian, speaker, and author of Life in One Shot, to talk about what success really means when the stage lights turn off and real life starts asking harder questions.
We get honest a...
Exhaustion doesn’t always mean you’re doing too much. Sometimes it means you’re doing the wrong things for the wrong reasons, and your body is trying to get your attention. We dig into what “living out of alignment” actually feels like when your life looks great from the outside but your nervous system is stuck in stress mode on the inside.
I’m joined by Dr. Esther Zeledón , best-selling author, former dip...
Have you ever caught yourself caring more about a conversation on a screen than the one happening right in front of you? That moment can feel harmless, even comforting, but it can also be a sign that loneliness is quietly steering the wheel. We go straight into the tension between real connection and safe fantasy, and why so many of us attach to who someone could be instead of who they are.
I’m joined by C...
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, to unpack why so many capable people feel stuck even after they’ve built the life they thought they wanted. His core premise is surprisingly hopeful: you’re already a 10, and ...
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 that changes everything: the meaning of communication is the response you get, and if the response is not what you hoped for, the first place to look is how you’re landing emo...
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 story tells you you’re not enough. I’m joined by Ashley Ondrick, an integrative nutrition health coach, private chef, and cooking instructor, to talk about rebuilding from the ins...
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 communication coach, award-winning journalist, and author of *Can I Ask a Question?*, to unpack why so many of us were never taught real conflict communication skills, even though o...
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