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 song has never “just played” in the background. At the right moment, a single line can crack open something you’ve been carrying for years, and suddenly you’re breathing deeper than you have in weeks. That’s the kind of listening we’re talking about here, where music becomes a mental health tool instead of simple entertainment.
We’re joined by artist and songw...
Trauma isn’t only what happens to you. Sometimes it’s what happens inside you when you keep witnessing the unbearable and still decide to serve. I’m joined by David Small, who has spent the last decade working alongside the Burma Rangers in Myanmar’s long-running civil war, and who recently wrote *Nameless Faceless People* about that journey. We get honest about what repeated exposure to viol...
“We’re a family here” can feel like the warmest promise a job can make, until the day you realise the loyalty only flows one way. We sit down with Katie Jean Hadiaris, ICF-certified somatic and trauma-informed coach and the founder of Work Is Not Family, to talk about what happens when workplace culture blurs boundaries and your body starts sounding the alarm. If you’ve ever felt emotionally ...
That sentence you never remember learning can still run your whole life: “I’m not good enough.” It can look like perfectionism, people pleasing, overexplaining, staying “nice,” or feeling guilty for needing rest and support. We sit down with Mary Beth Fox, an inner child therapist, to trace how that story takes root in childhood and quietly becomes an adult identity, even when everythin...
If you’ve ever wondered, “Is it really abuse if there are no bruises?” this conversation answers with compassion and clarity. I’m joined by kinesiologist, author, and survivor Amanda J. Scott, who spent 17 years in an emotionally and financially abusive marriage before finding her way back to herself, and now supports women and children through that same fog of confusion, shame, and self-doub...
Grief is often treated like a tunnel you crawl through until you reach “normal” again. We don’t buy that story. When loss hits, something real happens in the body, the mind, and the way you make meaning and if you ignore those layers, time alone won’t necessarily heal you.
I’m joined by health and wellness advocate Pearly Montagu, who shares how her own grief and heal...
The leadership lessons that change you most rarely come from a boardroom. They come from rooms filled with grief, from high-pressure phone calls that rewrite the day, and from moments where the only real move is to show up with your whole self. That’s the lens we bring to this conversation on Healthy Mind, Healthy Life with Jay Jacobson, a funeral director turned disaster responder turned entrepreneur who was ...
That quiet moment when you realise you’ve “made it” and still feel empty can be more frightening than failure. Greg Pai joins us to argue that the anxiety, numbness, and constant pressure so many people carry may not be a personal flaw at all, but a predictable outcome of living inside systems designed to shape what you value, what you chase, and even who you think you are.
Greg is an entrep...
Leadership doesn’t fall apart because you lack ambition. It falls apart when your body and mind are so depleted that your “drive” turns into irritability, brain fog, and survival-mode decisions. We sit down with Matt Jacques, an Australian Navy veteran and the co-founder and director of Neptune Holdings Group in Darwin, to get honest about the link between physical health and great leadership and w...
Testosterone talk is everywhere right now, but most of it is either fear-driven or fitness-forum folklore. We sit down with Dr. Khashayar Farzam, a Canadian emergency physician board certified in Canada and the US, with a clinical focus on obesity medicine, men’s health, testosterone-related care, and body composition. He also competes as a drug-tested powerlifter, which gives him a rare blend of real-wo...
Your phone isn’t just “distracting” you. It’s competing for the most valuable resource you have: attention. And when that attention gets pulled apart day after day, the cost isn’t only lost time, it’s lost clarity, lost calm, and a quieter sense that you’re no longer fully with your own life.
We sit down with Jordan Miller to unpack what’s actually happening und...
You can feel productive and still feel empty, and that’s one of the most confusing mental health signals there is. We start with that quiet “daylessness” feeling: the exhaustion that comes not from effort, but from moving in the wrong direction. From there, we unpack a simple but radical idea: purpose is not found out in the world like a lucky clue, it’s built from the inside out. When you tr...
A seizure can happen in a grocery store aisle, in a meeting, or in the middle of a normal Tuesday, and the hardest part is often the uncertainty. We sit down with Jane Rogers, who has lived with epilepsy for more than 30 years, endured countless seizures, and gone through brain surgeries, then turned that lived experience into her memoir Laughing Through the Storm. She doesn’t sugarcoat what epilepsy takes, bu...
Rock bottom isn’t always a disaster you can point to. Sometimes it’s a quiet car ride, a crying child in the back seat, and the sick realization that you can’t even afford a two-dollar comfort. That’s the moment Ryan Castleberry, an Air Force veteran and father, shares with me and it’s where his rebuild truly begins. After a motorcycle accident and brain injury changed what his body cou...
Most of us were taught that emotions show up uninvited, take the wheel, and leave us to manage the damage. We take that story apart with Doug Earl Johnston, known to friends as Doug, a former business executive and world champion sailor who spent ten years building a radically practical guide to the inner world: Choosing Emotions, a book that maps 272 emotional states using more than 4,000 quotes from people who hav...
The moment something feels impossible, your mind rushes to write the ending for you and it’s usually bleak. We sit with that pressure today, then tear it apart piece by piece with author Zac Baldwin, who writes characters that keep moving even when the cost is high and the path is unclear. If you’ve been stuck between doing what’s safe and doing what’s right, this conversation is built for yo...
We’re surrounded by loud promises about living to 100, reversing aging, and “biohacking” our way out of reality. But the quiet question hits harder: when you get there, how well will you be living? I’m joined by Dr. Golnosh Sharafsaleh, a geriatrician and lifestyle medicine physician, to zoom out from the obsession with lifespan and get honest about healthspan, the years you stay indepe...
What if the loudest thoughts in your head aren’t “you” at all, but old programming from childhood, culture, pain, and repetition? That single idea can be unsettling, but it can also be freeing because it means those patterns are not permanent.
We sit down with Erik Fredrickson, a life and recovery coach and the co-founder of Recovering Reality, to talk about the practical process of re...
Your life can look polished on the outside while you’re falling apart on the inside, and that gap is where so many people quietly get lost. We talk with Jack Nolan, one of the UK’s youngest mental health and empowerment speakers and a published author, about what it really means to grow through what you go through when the pressure to succeed becomes a threat to your mental health.
Jack takes us b...
A note before you listen: this episode touches on child trafficking and human suffering. Some of it is heavy. Please take care of yourself while listening, and know that the conversation ultimately moves toward healing, purpose, and hope
There are people who choose to walk straight into the darkest places on Earth and then somehow have to return to normal life, relationships, and sleep. We wanted to know ...
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