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The Mindful Living
by Avik Chakraborty and Sana
Welcome to The Mindful Living, where we explore mental health and mindfulness. I’m your host, Sana, and in each episode, we’ll hear from inspiring guests—experts, thought leaders, and individuals with remarkable stories—who share their insights on living a healthier, more mindful life. We’ll dive into managing stress, overcoming challenges, and finding balance. Whether you seek inspiration, support, or a moment of relaxation,.Want to be a guest on The Mindful Living? Send The Mindful Living a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/themindfulliving
Episodes
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Kingdom Over Empire: Finding Freedom From Political Fear and Outrage | Brian Drinkwine
The news can leave the chest tight and the mind restless. This episode is for anyone who wants to stay engaged with the world without being owned by outrage. Pastor and author Brian Drinkwine shares how switching off the news and returning to his faith tradition changed the way he sees people. It...
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When the Life You Built No Longer Fits: Reclaiming the Dream You Shelved | Diane Van Buren
You followed the map. You achieved the goals on your vision board. So why does something still feel incomplete? Diane Van Buren, an award winning architect who walked away from a celebrated career, joins The Mindful Living to talk about honoring the quiet signal that something is missing, even…
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Taking the Wheel: How to Quiet Autopilot Thinking and Reclaim Your Mind | Alan Bodnar on The Mindful Living
Why do you react before you even decide? This episode explores the answer. Neurophilosopher Alan Bodnar spent ten years studying five hundred books on neuroscience and mindfulness to explain why we live on autopilot, and how deliberate attention can rewire automatic fear into responses that serve...
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From People Pleasing to Assertiveness, with Bradley Gabbert | The Mindful Living
In this episode of The Mindful Living, Sana talks with Bradley Gabbert, author of the memoir The Agreeable Child, about how a near-fatal accident at thirty months old shaped a lifetime of people pleasing, passivity, and fear of conflict. Bradley traces his story from a childhood coma and the…
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Finding Perfect Glory in Ordinary Moments, with Marcia McFarland | The Mindful Living
In this episode of The Mindful Living, Sana sits down with Christian author Marcia McFarland to talk about her book Perfect Glory, a collection of short reflections on identity, purpose, grace, and perseverance. Marcia shares the story behind the book, a prophetic directive she received to "get...
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Rewriting the Inner Story: Healing Overwhelm From the Inside Out with Liz Coleman
In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Avik sits down with certified transformational life coach and NLP practitioner Liz Coleman to explore what really keeps us stuck in cycles of overwhelm. Liz explains that the real block is rarely the to-do list itself, it is the inner story running...
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Why Healing Was Never Meant to Be Solo: Christy Thiel | The Mindful Living
Christy Thiel, master nutrition therapist and founder of Soulfull Bloom, joins Sana to explore why healing is never meant to happen in isolation. Drawing on two decades of work at the intersection of nutrition science and spirituality, she talks about the roots of self-destructive thoughts, the...
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Why Wellness Works Better Together: Dr. Maria Van Der Maaten | The Mindful Living
Dr. Maria Van Der Maaten joins Avik to challenge the myth that self-care has to be a solo act. A sociologist and community development practitioner, she shares the research behind her upcoming book Even Monks Meditate Together, and why the wellness habits that actually stick are the ones we build...
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Rewrite Your Money Story: Estelle Gibson on The Mindful Living
Our relationship with money is rarely about the numbers. It's about a story, one inherited from family, written during hard seasons, and rarely ever questioned. Sana talks with CPA and holistic financial coach Estelle Gibson about the four levels of belief that shape how we handle money, and why...
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The Body Keeps Score: Carolyn Hatton on Aging and Body Image
For many women, the relationship with their own body has been adversarial for decades, something to manage or apologize for. Underneath that managing, the body has been trying to say something the whole time. Sana talks with life success coach Carolyn Hatton about women in their forties, fifties,...
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Core Transformation: Tamara Andreas on Healing Beneath Your Emotions
Most of us try to fix an emotional issue by working directly on it, talking it through, analyzing it, managing it. But what if the real shift happens underneath the emotion? Sana talks with Tamara Andreas, co-author of Core Transformation, about accessing the deep state beneath a feeling instead…
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You Are Not Your Thoughts: Anthony Johnson on The Mindful Living
Millions of thoughts run through our heads every day, and most of us never question whether they're true. We just assume they are, because they're ours. Sana talks with coach and podcast host Anthony Johnson about telling the difference between what's happening now and an old wound resurfacing…
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Mindfulness Isn't About Being Calm: Kirana Sidin on Intentional Living
There's a version of mindfulness we're sold: calm, still, figured out. But nobody shows the laundry pile growing while you're trying to find five minutes to breathe. Sana talks with author and life coach Kirana Sidin about the comment from her youngest son that changed everything, and why mindful...
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Breaking the Doomscrolling Habit: Sam Brooks on Rethinking the News
Most of us reach for our phones before our eyes are even open, and by the time we're out of bed, we're already carrying a weight that wasn't there when we woke. Sana talks with Sam Brooks, founder of the good-news platform Rally, about the gap between the world's reality and the version of it…
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Why Healing Isn't a Fight: Zach Rehder on Boredom, Feelings, and Triggers
For anyone who's ever fought their pain harder than the pain itself, this episode asks a slower question: what if healing isn't something you chase, but something you stop resisting? Zach Rehder returns for a third, unscripted conversation on The Mindful Living, exploring boredom as a doorway…
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Facing Cancer Twice in One Marriage: Jonathan Brandt on The Mindful Living
What does it look like when two people in one home face cancer, one after the other, and still find their way back to joy? Jonathan Brandt returns to share how he and his late wife Kristie became chemo buddies, and how Go Out Living still helps others hold onto hope. About the Guest: Jonathan...
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Systems Over Willpower: Sandi Glandt on Ending Working Mom Burnout
This episode is for the woman who has been told that if she just breathed deeper, thought more positively, or organized better, the overwhelm would finally lift. Sana sits down with high performance productivity coach Sandi Glandt to ask a harder question: what if burnout in working moms was…
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Rewriting the Fear Program After Trauma: Fadi Sarieddine on The Mindful Living
Trauma doesn't just live in memory, it writes code, a program running quietly in the background of your mind, deciding what feels safe long after the danger is gone. Sana sits down with returning guest Fadi Sarieddine, a spiritual healer and author, to talk about what it actually takes to rewrite...
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Greening Your Own Life, Not Just a Building: David Gottfried on The Mindful Living
It's one thing to green a building, it's a very different thing to green your own life. Sana welcomes back returning guest David Gottfried, widely known as the father of the global green building movement, for a deeply personal conversation that goes well past his environmental work into the...
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Rethinking Rest and Recovery Through Sleep Posture: Bryan Bourgeois on The Mindful Living
A note for listeners: This episode features the inventor of a commercial product and includes his own claims about its health benefits, including specific figures about oxygen, hydration, and long-term health effects. These are the guest's marketing claims, not medical facts verified by Healthy...
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Prioritizing Inner Balance Over Work-Life Balance: Chris Vasiliadis on The Mindful Living
What if the imbalance so many of us feel isn't between work and life at all, what if it's something quieter, happening inside a person no matter how well their calendar is arranged? Sana sits down with Chris Vasiliadis, a former systems engineer and director of performance improvement who became…
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What Balance Actually Looks Like for Mothers: Beth Wilson on The Mindful Living
So many mothers carry an image of balance that looks like a perfectly divided pie chart, equal time and energy for everything. Sana sits down with Beth Wilson, intuitive guide, energy healer, and bestselling author, to talk about what balance actually looks like in practice: quieter, messier, and...
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Becoming a Nowist: Billy Mandarino on The Mindful Living
There's a specific exhaustion that comes from living everywhere except right here, replaying yesterday, rehearsing tomorrow, and somehow missing the only moment actually available. Sana sits down with Billy Mandarino, author of The Now-ist and self-described "Nowist," to talk about present-moment...
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Giving Yourself Permission to Start Over: Joy-Yafit Pascal on The Mindful Living
What if the life you're longing for isn't somewhere in the future, but quietly waiting on the other side of one courageous decision? Sreemedha sits down with Joy-Yafit Pascal, who has rebuilt her life across different countries and chapters, to talk about what it actually looks like to recover…
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Living Without Self-Imposed Limits: Tom Cladis on The Mindful Living
A note for listeners: This episode includes the guest's personal stories involving physical stunts (such as alligator wrestling and cliff-edge activities) as well as his individual faith perspectives. These reflect his own experiences and beliefs, not verified facts, and are not advice or an...
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From Busy Fool to Ironman: Changing Your Identity, Not Just Your Body, with Matt Davies
Twenty years in banking, long hours masking unhappiness nobody was naming, and a slow slide toward a breaking point that didn't feel dramatic until Matt Davies looked back. A performance coach who signed up for a full Ironman without knowing how to ride a clip-in bike, Matt talks with Sana about...
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Everything Is Always Working Out: Terry Bean on Mantras, Presence, and Magic
Everything is always working out for me, a mantra Terry Bean has lived by for the better part of two decades, earned across sixty two years of living, losing, and reinventing herself. The author of the children's book Abracadabra and founder of the Inner Magic Club joins Sana to talk about family...
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Executive Eats: Adam Kingl on Nutrition as a Leadership Performance Tool
How many times have you talked about food at work as fuel for focus, mood, and pressure, not just as a diet trend? Adam Kingl trained as a chef before he ever stood in a boardroom. Returning to The Mindful Living, Adam talks with Sana about why cooking itself is a mindfulness practice, which…
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Futurize Yourself: Tom Meyers on Finding Stability in a Fast-Changing World
Our bodies and minds were never built for the pace of change we're living through right now. Tom Meyers knows that mismatch personally, it once took him to the edge of a suicidal depression. An osteopath in Brussels and founder of The Reaset Approach, Tom talks with Sana about finding what he…
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From Fighter Pilot to Fantasy Author: Finding Purpose After Retirement, with Terrence L. Rotering
Two decades flying fighter jets, fifteen more years at NORAD, and then a completely different chapter: eleven books blending science fiction, fantasy, and faith. Terrence Rotering never planned on becoming a writer. On this episode of The Mindful Living, Terrence talks with Sana about what…
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Fact vs Story: Dr. Lauren Fine on the Camera Test for Career Doubt
In this episode of The Mindful Living, Sana sits with Dr. Lauren Fine, a physician turned medical educator turned coach, to slow down and look at something most of us never question, the stories we quietly tell ourselves about our own worth and our own choices. If you have ever assumed a silence…
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When the Body Remembers: Bridging Medicine and Energy Healing, with Dr. Noushin Hart
ome of us have been taught to pick a side, either the world of medicine that measures and treats, or the world of energy that feels and holds. Dr. Noushin Hart spent thirty years living inside that divide, first as a radiation oncologist trained entirely in evidence, then as a woman quietly...
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The Result Gap: How Your Nervous System Sabotages Success (Even When You Work Hard), with Dr. Siobhán Ewert
You worked hard, did everything right, and the results still did not come. Or you finally got what you wanted, and instead of relief, the same old pressure stayed. Physician scientist Dr. Siobhán Ewert joins Sana to explain why our nervous system sometimes protects us from the very success we are...
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Blades of Resurrection: Writing Through Grief, Addiction, and Survival, with Michael Grayson
Some lives accumulate so much that the only honest response is to write it down. A gambling addiction, both parents lost to cancer, then a rare cancer of his own. Michael Grayson, a nurse and cancer survivor, joins host Sana to talk about what the writing revealed. Not a tidy lesson, but an…
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From Life-Led to Joy-Led: Ted Kopecko on Finding Joy, Journey of You
This episode is for anyone who has looked up at 50, 60, or 70 and realized they built a full life without ever asking whether it actually brought them joy. Ted Kopecko, architect, real estate broker, and author of Finding JOY, The Journey of You, joins The Mindful Living Show to talk about the...
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Enduring vs Endurance: Marc Hopkins on Grit, Vulnerability, and 200 Miles
In this episode of The Mindful Living Show, Sana talks with ultra runner and author Marc Hopkins about what happens when the grit that built your career or your body quietly starts costing you something else. If you have ever been praised for your strength and felt strangely lonely inside the...
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Beyond the Vision Board: Brad Johnson on the Actor, the Character, and Real Manifestation
In this episode of The Mindful Living Show, Sana sits with consciousness teacher Brad Johnson to name a strange, quiet exhaustion many of us carry, the feeling of manifesting so hard that we end up further from ourselves. If vision boards and affirmations have started to feel like a performance...
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Neurodiversity Is Not Something to Fix: Thomas Wilson on Belonging, Storytelling, and Human Potential
What if neurodiversity isn't a disorder to overcome, but a different way of experiencing the world? In this inspiring episode of The Mindful Living Show, storyteller, educator, and neurodiversity advocate Thomas R. Wilson challenges the outdated belief that neurodivergent people need to be…
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The Sanctuary Bond: Building Emotionally Safe Relationships with Gaylen Wilson | Part 2
What if the strongest relationships aren't built during life's easiest moments, but through the way couples protect each other during the hardest ones? In Part 2 of this heartfelt conversation, Gaylen Wilson expands on the Sanctuary Bond, a relationship framework designed to help couples create...
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The Monument Method: Rebuilding Emotional Safety and Intimacy with Gaylen Wilson | Part 1
Can a marriage truly recover after years of emotional distance, conflict, or even sexual disconnection? In this first part of an inspiring conversation, Gaylen Wilson shares his deeply personal journey and the life experiences that led him to develop the Monument Method and the concept of the...
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Is This It? When a Successful Life Still Feels Hollow, with Sarah Collins
This episode includes a brief, retrospective mention of depression and past suicide attempts, shared as part of the guest's healing story. It is not graphic and not the focus of the conversation, but it may be tender for some listeners. Please be gentle with yourself, and step away if you need…
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The Body Remembers: Healing Trauma From Survival to Peace, with Anu Verma
Some conversations ask us to slow down. This is one of them. It is about trauma, about the body that remembers what the mind tries to forget, and about the slow, unglamorous work of coming back to yourself through mindfulness, breath, and connection. Anu Verma walks alongside people moving from...
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Julie Hutton on Longevity, Self-Love, and Going Your Own Way
Most of us live by committee. Parents, partners, mentors, algorithms, and one old voice that still sounds like a teacher we had at twelve. Somewhere in the noise, we stopped hearing ourselves. Julie Hutton has spent 39 years watching people arrive at that threshold. With Sana, she offers a slower...
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Making Sense of Purpose: Why You Must Know Yourself First With Suneet Bhatt
Most of us go looking for purpose out there, in the next role, the next achievement, the next version of ourselves. But what if it was never out there at all? Suneet Bhatt, who teaches purpose at Rutgers University and wrote Making Sense of Purpose, joins Sana to make a quiet but radical case:...
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Grief as Proof of Love: Processing Loss Through Writing With Niki J Borger
There is a kind of grief that does not arrive as sadness alone. It comes mixed with relief, with guilt, with feelings we are not taught to admit out loud. This episode is for anyone quietly carrying a loss they have never quite named. Actor, writer, and producer Niki J Borger sits with host Sana…
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Healing Trauma Without Reliving It: Anissa Hudak on The Mindful Living
This episode is for women who've done years of talk therapy and still feel like the trauma is somehow still there. Anissa Hudak, founder of Phoenix Women Healing and a trauma-informed practitioner blending neurosomatic therapy, hypnotherapy, and yoga, joins host Sana on The Mindful Living to...
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Finding Your Voice After a Spasmodic Dysphonia Diagnosis: Alexa Denaburg
This episode is for anyone whose sense of self has quietly depended on something they never thought to question, until it started slipping away. At 28, Alexa Denaburg was diagnosed with spasmodic dysphonia, a rare neurological voice disorder. She joins host Sana on The Mindful Living to talk…
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From Brain Injury to Spiritual Awakening: Jessica Taylor's Story
This episode is for anyone who has had to rebuild themselves from nothing at all. At 31, Jessica Taylor survived a traumatic brain injury that erased everything she knew. Twenty years later, she joins host Sana on The Mindful Living to share how she rebuilt her mind, and found an unexpected...
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The Great Crumbling: Christina Samycia on Collective Awakening
-This episode is for anyone who feels like the world is falling apart and wonders if there's any hope left. Psychologist and author Christina Samycia joins host Sana on The Mindful Living to make sense of the chaos, not as collapse, but as a collective awakening. Christina unpacks what she calls...
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Recovery, Spirituality, and Living with Intention: Adam Vohra's Story
This episode is for anyone moving through life on autopilot, answering messages, meeting expectations, and quietly wondering why. Recovery coach Adam Vohra joins host Sana to talk honestly about addiction, identity, and coming back to yourself. Adam shares what real surrender looks like, why he...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Welcome to The Mindful Living, where we explore mental health and mindfulness. I’m your host, Sana, and in each episode, we’ll hear from inspiring guests—experts, thought leaders, and individuals with remarkable stories—who share their insights on living a healthier, more mindful life. We’ll dive into managing stress, overcoming challenges, and finding balance. Whether you seek inspiration, support, or a moment of relaxation,.Want to be a guest on The Mindful Living? Send The Mindful Living a message on PodMatch, here: https://www.podmatch.com/hostdetailpreview/themindfulliving
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Avik Chakraborty and Sana
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