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The Mindful Journey
by Avik & Sana
Join us on "The Mindful Journey," a transformative podcast guiding you through the landscape of mindfulness, self-awareness, and personal growth. Each episode, our host and thought-provoking guests share insightful stories, practical techniques, and inspiring wisdom to help you cultivate a deeper connection with yourself and the world around you.
Episodes
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Frequency Healing Explained: Science, Risks & Real-World Experiences | Michael Upstone
What does it really mean to heal? Can energy-based technologies support the body's natural processes, and how do we distinguish scientific evidence from exaggerated claims? In this episode of The Mindful Journey, host Sana welcomes Michael Upstone, president of Keep Health Research and author of...
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Endometriosis and Chronic Pain: When Surgery Doesn't Help | Heather Yoshimura
This is my strongest choice because it addresses a specific concern that listeners with endometriosis may be searching for, while accurately reflecting Heather's experience. Other compelling options are “Why Endometriosis Pain Can Persist After Surgery,” “The Hidden Nervous System Connection to...
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The Placebo and Nocebo Effect: How Belief Shapes Health with Dr. Janey Little
What we expect about our health may matter more than we realise. This episode is for anyone curious about the mind and body connection and the quiet power of expectation. Dr. Janey Little explains the placebo and nocebo effects through a hospital story and her own practice, and shares her views…
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Handling Pressure and Mistakes: Clearer Decision Making with Grand Prix Rider Silvia Rizzo
Have you ever frozen before a big decision, or replayed a mistake long after it was over? On The Mindful Journey, host Sana sits with Silvia Rizzo to explore how we respond to pressure, uncertainty and error. Silvia shares why fear fills the empty spaces of uncertainty, how to decide from reality...
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Only Go Straight, Don’t Know: Returning Mindfulness to Its Zen Source with Dr. David Lee Fish
Mindfulness now arrives as apps, courses and checklists. What did it look like before all that? This episode is for anyone who practises mindfulness and wonders what the techniques grew from. Dr. David Lee Fish traces mindfulness back to the Zen teaching “only go straight, don’t know” and shows…
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What If You’re Not Too Sensitive—Just in the Wrong Environment? | Kathryn Riordan
Have you ever been told you're too sensitive, take things too personally, need too much rest, or should simply toughen up? What if sensitivity isn't something you need to eliminate? In this episode of The Mindful Journey, Swati speaks with Kathryn Riordan, a National Board Certified Health &...
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Reconnecting With Your Purpose, with Baiba Wisse | Mindful Journey
In this episode of Mindful Journey, host Yusuf talks with manifestation expert and career coach Baiba Wisse about what it really means to find purpose. Baiba unpacks the common misconception that purpose equals a job title, and shares how her own path started with a simple longing to feel...
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Scott Ambrose on Finding Presence Through Meditation and Inner Growth
Moving so fast you forget to simply be where you are? On The Mindful Journey, host Swati and Scott Ambrose explore navigating inner growth through presence, from everyday mindfulness to a simple meditation practice. You will learn why a wandering mind is part of meditation and how to shift from...
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Navigating Change With Presence: Mindful Awareness with Steve Barton
Always preparing for the next thing while life slips by? On The Mindful Journey, host Niharika and coach Steve Barton explore navigating change with presence rather than prediction. You will learn why mindfulness is exciting, not boring, how to clear the weeds of overthinking, and a playful way…
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Trusting Your Inner Knowing Through Life Transitions with Steven Golden
What do you do when you stand at the edge of a big decision and part of you hesitates? On The Mindful Journey, Rev. Steven Golden explores how our thoughts shape our experience of life transitions. You will hear simple daily practices for releasing fear and doubt, building self-gratitude and...
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Understanding Resistance: Why We Hold Back and How to Listen with Sam Brooks
Why does part of us keep pulling back, even when we want to change? This episode of The Mindful Journey is for anyone who procrastinates, avoids, or keeps finding reasons to wait, and feels stuck without knowing why. Sam Brooks shares how rethinking his news habits helped him move forward, why...
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Finding Presence in Daily Life: The Power of the Pause with Kirana Sidin
Are you actually present in your life, or just getting through it? This episode of The Mindful Journey is for anyone moving through busy days on autopilot who wants to feel more awake without adding another self-improvement project. Author and strategic life coach Kirana Sidin explains why...
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Navigating Inner Transformation Through Mindfulness and Faith with Michael Muccio
Why does real inner change feel so slow, even when you're doing the work? This episode of The Mindful Journey is for anyone who has tried mindfulness, felt their mind get louder, and wondered if they were doing it wrong. Author Michael Muccio shares why he left a high-flying corporate career…
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Navigating Change Through Awareness: Marcia Ruben on The Mindful Journey
What if our brains simply aren't wired for how fast change happens today? Host Swati talks with executive coach Dr. Marcia Ruben about why our nervous system craves certainty, and why staying present during change is a learnable skill. Marcia shares simple grounding techniques, like rubbing your...
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Making Friends With Your Ego: David Fiala on The Mindful Journey
What if fighting your ego is exactly what keeps it in charge? Host Shridha talks with David Fiala about why making friends with the ego, rather than battling it, is the fastest way to quiet it down. David shares a self-forgiveness visualization for easing self-criticism, the idea of the observer,...
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Breaking the Addiction to Achievement: Anu Verma on The Mindful Journey
What if the drive to achieve more is its own kind of addiction? Host Sana talks with trauma specialist Anu Verma about redefining success away from external validation and toward how you actually feel inside. Anu shares how childhood trauma can leave the nervous system stuck in fight, flight, or...
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Trusting Intuition Every Day: Katharine Giovanni on The Mindful Journey
There's a voice inside you that speaks before your thoughts fully form, a pull toward certain choices logic can't explain. Most of us have felt it, and most of us second-guess it. On this episode of The Mindful Journey, intuitive and author Katharine Giovanni shares how she learned to trust that...
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Why Serving Others Only Works When You Serve Yourself Too | Cindy Rand on The Mindful Journey
Nearly thirty years as a certified accountant and business finance coach doesn't sound like the origin story for someone called the Busy Woman's Cheerleader. But for Cindy Rand, the two chapters of her life, finance and faith-driven service, were never actually separate. In this episode of The...
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Spiritual Regression Hypnotherapy: Releasing Trauma Without Reliving It, with Taras Machula
Most mindfulness practices, whether it's breathwork, journaling, or meditation, are trying to do one thing: bring you back to your heart. But what happens when the mind you're trying to quiet keeps pulling you toward every unresolved thread in your life? In this episode of The Mindful Journey…
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How to Listen to Your Body: Andrew Scheim on Body Work and Detox
Most of us learn to override our bodies instead of listening to them. Andrew Scheim, an integrative wellness practitioner and advanced body worker, has spent decades helping people do the opposite. From his years as a blues musician to acupuncture, detox, and PEMF therapy, Andrew walks through…
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Health on Planet Earth: The HOPE Framework with David Gottfried
There's a kind of hope that doesn't just wait for things to get better. It builds plans, creates, and moves through the world with purpose. When it comes to the health of a planet, that kind of hope isn't optional, it's the whole point. Swati sits down with David Gottfried, founder of the U.S....
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Boundaries and Internal Safety: Barb Nangle on How to Stop Abandoning Yourself
Most of us think boundaries fail because our words aren't firm enough. Boundaries coach Barb Nangle returns to The Mindful Journey to explain why boundaries actually collapse when we don't feel safe enough inside ourselves to hold them. Barb walks through the moment at 52 that led her into...
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There Is No Destination, Only Presence: Terry Bean on The Mindful Journey
We spend so much time thinking about where we're going, our careers, our goals, the things we want to achieve, and far less time noticing what's happening inside us while we do it all. Swati sits down with Terry Bean, author, executive life coach, and speaker, to talk about mindfulness as…
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Surviving Your Own Dark Night of the Soul: Frances Fayden on The Mindful Journey
The phrase "dark night of the soul" gets used often enough that it can lose its weight, but it's not a bad week, it's a complete disconnection from everything that used to hold meaning. Sana sits down with Reverend Frances Fayden, spiritual mentor, author, and host of the Magnify Your Miracles...
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Building a Relationship on Purpose: The Monument Method with Gaylen Wilson
Most couples build their relationship on chemistry alone, and that's exactly why so many struggle once the early romance phase fades. This episode is for anyone who wants their relationship to be intentional rather than left to instinct. Gaylen Wilson joins Sreemedha to share the Monument Method…
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Releasing Fear After the Storm: Fadi Sarieddine on The Mindful Journey
When something hard happens, the storm usually passes, but it tends to leave something behind, a quiet wiring that says stay small, stay guarded, don't hope too much. Sana sits down with Fadi Sarieddine, a spiritual healer and author, to talk about the fear that keeps steering decisions long…
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From Self-Forgetting to Self-Remembering: Theresa Gale on The Mindful Journey
Most people don't lose themselves in a single dramatic moment, they lose themselves one ordinary day at a time, and often nobody tells them until years have passed. Sana sits down with executive coach and certified Enneagram trainer Theresa Gale to talk about self-forgetting, self-remembering…
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Coping With Uncertain Times and Self-Esteem: Kate Heartsong on The Mindful Journey
There's a particular kind of tired going around right now, a sense that the old ways of coping aren't quite working and nobody's sure what the new ones look like. Sana sits down with Kate Heartsong, known as the Confidence and Career Coach, to talk about self-esteem, uncertainty, and what she…
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A Lifelong Search for Truth and Healing: Daniel Winrose on The Mindful Journey
Imagine being a child who feels things other people cannot explain away, not fear exactly, more like a knowing, with nobody around you having a word for it. Sana sits down with Daniel Winrose, author of Along Trails of Truth, to talk about growing up in a dysfunctional family, a childhood…
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A Healthier Home Without the Overwhelm: Risa Suzuki on The Mindful Journey
You walk into your kitchen and start wondering about the air you're breathing, the water you're drinking, the surfaces your children touch, and suddenly the whole house feels like a problem to solve. Navya sits down with Risa Suzuki, a certified Building Biology Environmental Consultant, to talk...
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Reclaiming Your Health After 40: Brian Parana on The Mindful Journey
Have you ever caught your own reflection and needed a half second to recognize the person looking back? Sana sits down with Brian Parana, who has spent more than two decades coaching real people, not Instagram people, on fitness, nutrition, and lifestyle, to talk about the slow drift that happens...
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You Are Not Broken: Zachariah Rehder on Breathwork and What Blocks Healing
Many of us spend years searching for healing as though we are broken, and the searching itself can become the obstacle. Zachariah Rehder spent fifteen years accumulating spiritual knowledge before realizing understanding was never the point. An international breathwork facilitator and healer…
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From "You're a Mistake" to Changing Lives: Thomas Wilson on Neurodiversity, Storytelling, and Belonging
What if neurodiversity isn't something to be fixed, but something to be understood? In this moving episode of The Mindful Journey, neurodiversity advocate and storyteller Thomas R. Wilson shares his remarkable journey from being labeled a "problem" in childhood to becoming a mentor, educator, and...
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You Already Know: Jennifer Halls on Trusting Your Intuition
Most of us override our own knowing dozens of times a day without noticing, that tight feeling in the stomach, that pull in one direction we reason ourselves right out of. Jennifer Halls left a career as a museum curator with no roadmap to become an intuition consultant. Nearly 25,000…
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Survival Mode: What Becomes Possible When You Stop Just Surviving, with Paul Padgett
You can be functioning, even impressively, and still not be living. Survival mode is quiet like that. It stops feeling like a crisis and starts feeling normal. Paul Padgett has spent four decades rebuilding lives after disasters, and his own more than once. He sits with Sana to name the loop and...
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When the Body Feels Uncertain: Finding Steadiness Through Illness, with Jihane Laraichi
Meet Jihane Laraichi, energy coach and certified therapist, who joins Mindful Journey to talk about staying grounded through serious illness, including cancer diagnosis and recovery. Listeners will hear gentle grounding practices to sit alongside medical care, not replace it, for moments fear…
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Befriending Your Emotions: Elisa Neven-Pugh on Faith, Disability, and Being Real
This episode is for anyone who learned early to keep their emotions tidy and useful instead of honest. Author and disability advocate Elisa Neven-Pugh joins The Mindful Journey to talk about what it actually means to be real with what you feel, especially in the middle of something hard. Elisa...
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How to Negotiate With Your Chatty Mind: Claudia Gallegos on Overthinking and Inner Peace
This episode is for anyone whose mind won't stop talking, replaying conversations, rehearsing worries, and second-guessing decisions before they're even made. Life coach and Akashic Records consultant Claudia Gallegos joins The Mindful Journey to talk about negotiating with an overactive mind...
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What About Me? The Question Underneath Everything, with Tom Anderson
There is a question almost no one says aloud, though most of us are asking it. It shows up as an ache at the end of a long day. What about me? Am I enough? Do I matter? Tom Anderson joins host Sana to sit with that question. Where it comes from, why it is so universal, and what it actually wants...
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A Hike Is Something You Finish. A Pilgrimage Finishes You, with Reino Gevers
Twelve walks on the Camino de Santiago, and the same discovery each time. Weeks of walking strip away everything that is not essential, until what is left is you. Reino Gevers joins host Sana to talk about burnout, buried memory, and the difference between covering history and finally sitting…
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When Healing Becomes a Checklist: Nutrition, Mindset, and Letting Love In, with Dr. Ellyn Hilliard-McLeod
If healing has started to feel like one more thing you are failing at, this conversation is for you. The protocols, the routines, the quiet pressure to do it all correctly. Dr. Ellyn Hilliard-McLeod joins host Sana to explore holistic nutrition, the core beliefs we form about food, and what…
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Living Inside the Question: Chronic Illness, Silence, and Self-Advocacy | Dr. Jeffrey Bone
For over twenty years, Dr. Jeffrey Bone sat across from people whose bodies had stopped cooperating with their lives. Then his own diagnosis asked him to walk the same road. In this Mindful Journey conversation, Jeffrey and Sana move slowly through what it means to heal inside a world built for...
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Spiritual Awakening: How to Recognize Divine Guidance in Everyday Life, with Shawngela Pierce
For anyone who senses a quiet voice asking "is this really it?" while everything looks fine from the outside. Sana sits with spiritual healer Shawngela Pierce to explore what awakening actually looks like: gentle, gradual, rarely dramatic. You will leave with a softer way to notice divine…
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The World Is Kind, Not Dangerous: Joe Hehn on The Mindful Journey
This episode is for anyone who's been told the world outside is dangerous and quietly organizes their life around that fear. Joe Hehn, a mindset expert and consciousness teacher who spent a decade traveling after the loss of his wife, joins host Sana on The Mindful Journey to make the case for a...
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Go Out Living: Jonathan Brandt on Love, Loss, and Choosing Life
This episode is for anyone facing something so heavy it feels impossible to carry, and wondering how to keep showing up anyway. Jonathan Brandt joins host Sana on The Mindful Journey to share his and his late wife Christy's story: back-to-back cancer diagnoses, and the philosophy they built...
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Beyond Surface-Level Mindfulness: What Quantum Hypnosis Can Help You Access, with Ali Christos
There's a quiet frustration many people carry. They have done the work: meditation, journaling, therapy, books, podcasts. They know their patterns by name. And yet something keeps repeating, something that awareness alone cannot seem to reach. Ali Christos has spent years sitting with people in...
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Forest Bathing and Belonging: Coming Home to Yourself in Nature, with Frankie Edwards
What if the body remembers belonging long before the mind does? What if the nervous system we keep trying to fix with advice and apps was simply waiting for something older: trees, soil, wind, the slow rhythm of a forest? Frankie Edwards joins Sana for a tender conversation on forest bathing as a...
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The Power of Breath: Coming Back to Yourself and Resetting the Nervous System, with Julie Rea
Most of us have spent so long living in our heads that we've forgotten a quieter intelligence moving through us all day, asking nothing. It's the breath, and this conversation is about coming back to it. Julie Rea, an intuitive energy healing practitioner, joins Sana to explore how slow, deep...
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Non-Toxic Living Without the Overwhelm: Small Steps and Trusting Yourself, with Amy Hartshorn
Sensitivity note: this episode includes the guest's personal health experience and her own critical views of conventional medicine and the food industry. These are presented as her perspective, not as medical advice. Listeners should consult a qualified professional for health decisions. The...
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From Grief to Gratitude: The Inner Pathway to Healing After Loss
Some seasons change us so quietly we barely notice. A loss, a diagnosis, an ending. Most of us were taught to grieve by staying strong and moving on, but underneath that, a quieter pathway asks us to turn toward ourselves, not away. Steven Ferrara joins Sana to share how the sudden loss of his...
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Join us on "The Mindful Journey," a transformative podcast guiding you through the landscape of mindfulness, self-awareness, and personal growth. Each episode, our host and thought-provoking guests share insightful stories, practical techniques, and inspiring wisdom to help you cultivate a deeper connection with yourself and the world around you.
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