Wellness Minutes
Looking for a short mental health podcast you can actually fit into your day? Wellness Minutes is designed for busy people who know stress, burnout, and overwhelm—but want quick, practical ways to feel better.
Hosted by an Indian Clinical-Community Psychologist based in the U.S., each short episode ( under 7 minutes) offers guided practices and bite-sized wisdom from psychology, neuroscience, and spirituality. Whether you need fast stress relief, a quick mindfulness break, or simple coping strategies for burnout, this podcast gives you tools you can use right away.
Think of it as your pocket-sized wellness companion: short, calming, and grounded in evidence-based mental health practices. Each episode is an invitation to pause, breathe, and bring more balance into your everyday life—no matter how busy things get.
Episodes
65 episodes
Reconnecting Through Talking Rituals: A Wellness Guide
Do you ever feel disconnected from family and friends, especially those living far away? When each day blends into the next, how do we maintain meaningful connections?Drawing inspiration from Anne Lamott's book "Help Thanks Wow," this e...
Perfectionism is holding you back more than you realize
Perfectionism has a way of silencing our voices. After a lengthy break from recording, I found myself trapped in an endless cycle of waiting for the "perfect episode" before returning to the microphone. The pressure to create something extraord...
What Your Irritability Is Desperately Trying to Tell You
Have you ever tried to focus on an important task while feeling irritated or upset? That nagging emotional state isn't just an inconvenience—it's your brain processing critical data that demands your attention. Welcome to episode 12 of the Well...
Breaking Free from Mental Loops
Every living species has a superpower, and for humans, it's our capacity to think and problem-solve—yet this gift becomes problematic when we can't stop thinking to the point of exhaustion.• Our imagined problems are often worse than re...
Mindful Eating: Breaking Free from Guilt and Finding Gratitude
Our complicated relationship with food often stems from childhood, where being fed helped soothe our distress, creating deep connections between food and comfort that persist into adulthood. We explore the mindful approach to comfort eating, fo...
Burnout: When Passion Becomes Exhaustion
We explore the concept of burnout as a state of mental and physical exhaustion that occurs when we're constantly "switched on" without adequate rest periods. This episode provides practical strategies to recognize and address burnout before it ...
Our feelings are data waiting to be processed, not enemies to be fought.
Naming our emotions isn't just therapy-speak—it's a powerful tool for mental clarity and focus. When we acknowledge our feelings without judgment, we free up mental resources that would otherwise be consumed by emotions running like background ...
The Art of Reconnecting Through Talking Rituals
The "Help, Thanks, Wow" ritual offers a simple yet powerful way to reconnect with ourselves and loved ones while improving our wellbeing through acknowledging struggles, expressing gratitude, and finding wonder in everyday life.• Inspir...
The Power of Self-Compassion: Replacing Critical Language with Kindness
We explore the practice of replacing self-critical language with compassionate language during overwhelming times, especially as we juggle multiple roles during the pandemic. Research confirms a direct relationship between self-compassion and p...
Your Body Is Begging For More Rest—Here's How To Listen
I fell asleep at concerts by Zakir Hussain and Pearl Jam, which made me realize how sleep-deprived I was. Today I'm sharing signs you need more rest and practical ways to improve your sleep quality.• Not feeling refreshed in the morning...
Tricking Your Brain into Loving Movement: A Psychologist's Approach to Exercise (True Crime is involved!)
Exercise doesn't have to be difficult or boring when you approach it with the right mindset. A psychologist shares practical strategies for incorporating movement into daily life, focusing on mental shifts rather than complex routines.•...
Your Brain is Plastic: A 5-Minute Guide to Installing Joy
We explore how to shift from survival mode to thriving by retraining our brain to scan for happiness instead of danger. Our brain's natural tendency is to focus on worries and problems, but we can manually install the skill of noticing pleasure...
When Time Feels Like It's Slipping Away, Try This
Time can be transformed from an enemy into an ally through the Pomodoro technique, a powerful productivity method that structures work into focused 25-minute intervals followed by intentional breaks. Named after the Italian word for tomato beca...
Your Emotions Are Messengers, Not Enemies
Wellness Minutes explores the practice of meditating on feelings, teaching listeners to observe the space between events and actions where thoughts and emotions influence behavior. This episode introduces the powerful practice of emotional awar...
The Hidden Power of Naming Your Emotions: Why Therapists Ask "How Does That Feel?"
Emotions are like background programs running on your mental computer—when acknowledged, they free up resources, but when ignored, they demand more attention and drain your capacity to focus.• Understanding the five universal emotions i...
Your mental health deserves the same attention as your finances.
We explore how investing in your health through proactive self-care builds resilience similar to saving money for future needs. Our brain's stress pathways are well-developed while pleasure pathways need intentional strengthening to help us gen...
Beyond Self-Criticism: A 4-Minute Compassion Practice
Ever notice how we're often our own harshest critics? The RAIN meditation offers a refreshing alternative—a simple yet profound practice that transforms how we relate to difficult emotions.This brief guided meditation introduces you to ...
Spiritual Bypass: When Bliss Becomes Avoidance
Anger burns. It rises in our bodies—sometimes in our racing hearts, sometimes in our flushed cheeks, sometimes in our churning stomachs. But what happens when we try to hold that burning sensation with compassion? Can we speak loudly and firmly...
Honoring the Unseen: Reflections on What Keeps Our World Turning
What goes unseen often matters most. Today's meditation centers around six powerful words—loving, kindness, compassion, heart, hands, and head—inviting you to weave them into your own meaningful mantra. The heart of this episode fe...
Self-Care Before Service: The Oxygen Mask Principle
Ever noticed how your most depleted moments often follow periods of caring for everyone but yourself? That's no coincidence.Drawing inspiration from the flight safety instruction to secure your own oxygen mask before helping others, thi...
Sensory Scavenger Hunt for Your Stressed-Out Mind
Finding yourself caught in a loop of worries or overwhelm? Pause and take a breath. Our bodies have an incredible built-in system for returning to calm, and this episode reveals how to activate it through simple grounding techniques.We ...
The One-Minute Rebellion Against Constant Stress
Take a deep breath. Now another. What did you just activate? Your parasympathetic nervous system—the forgotten half of your body's stress-response equation.Most of us have mastered the art of stress. Our sympathetic nervous system—respo...
Day 30: Mindfulness Saturdays
To contrast with my busy, "can do - will do - yes absolutely" attitude, I decided to dedicate one day of the week to slowing down and giving myself permission to do nothing. It has been interesting! Hear a little bit about it!
Day 29: Watering the seeds of kindness and compassion
Reflecting on the hard work that goes into kindness and compassion
Day 28: Taking care of yourself is one way you take care of the universe
Remembering a line by Chief Seattle, I reflect on the importance of taking care of ourselves. I also reflect on the wisdom of Adrienne Maree Brown ("Pleasure Activism") who reminds us how the world can only gain from our happiness.
