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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.
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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! We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Reflecting on the hard work that goes into kindness and compassion We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
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. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
When you take care of yourself- your health and wellness can have a positive impact on others. If you don't refill your own cup but keep offering your cup to others- everyone loses from your ultimately empty cup. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Continuing my reflections on depression and anxiety We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
The most common experiences of profound psychological distress - Depression and Anxiety - are not personal failures, they are the mind and body's response to unrelenting stress. This episode names these two experiences and invites you to reflect on them with compassion. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Reflecting on how to help yourself decide whether to seek professional help, how to recognize you have gone from stress to STRESSED OUT and how a therapist could help. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Sunday Blues - like any other feeling - are feedback to us. In this episode, we reflect on Sunday blues and what we can learn about our feelings from the poem Guest House by Jalaluddin Rumi We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Sometimes disconnecting from the phone seems like the best way to reconnect with reality. The concrete reality, not just the manifestation of reality (aka deluge of information) our internet-connected devices throw at us. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
This is what happens when I have a super busy day and then end up in a Spiritual study group meeting and then wonder - do other people think about this too? We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Immigration, regardless of the motivation behind immigration, comes with such a string of losses. This episode is a reflection on what that grief can look like We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Recognizing the invisible work we do in our professions and in our homes and communities. Read the poem I referenced: https://pollycastor.com/2019/05/11/invisible-work-poem-by-alison-luterman/ We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
The inner critic forgets we are doing our best and the best way to improve ourselves is through reinforcement in the form of kindness and compassion. In this episode I reference the work of Carl Rogers, one of the founders of the Humanistic movement in Psychology and discuss a few ways I have changed my self talk to defuse the inner critic. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Curiosity about our feelings is one form of compassion . today I bring curiosity to health anxiety. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Plants can teach us so much and give us so much. Hope you get a chance to reflect on how to plant these seeds of hope in your life. Here is a video from one of my favorite plant parents on YouTube, Garden Up: https://youtu.be/G-w2gpbyGaMWe'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
The difficult and sometimes highly unbearable feeling called Fear remains my achilles heel. It incapacitates me and makes it very hard for me to focus, don't know about you! In today's episode I speak a bit about fear and what I have learned from my teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, a Buddhist monk from Vietnam who sought asylum in France after being exiled from Vietnam. His teachings about sitting with our fear (accessed through the Plum Village Youtube channel) correlate well with what the neurosci...
Human civilization has "evolved" to prioritize the brain over the body, much to the detriment of our own holistic health as well as the health of our planet. Today's episode is a reflection on how compassion towards our body is a helpful and concrete tool to practice self compassion. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
How do you talk about this big topic in just 5 minutes? Come listen and find out. And for further information, check out this book (available on Kindle) called Anxiety: Overcome it and live without fear by friend and colleague in India, Psychologist Sonali Gupta. We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Practice the skill of mindfulness by reminding you to pause and bring yourself into the present moment. Tune into today's episode to learn one way to bring your mind and body to the same moment. Essentially, learn how to pause the auto-pilot and nourish the "human pilot"! We'd love to hear from you, send us a text! Support the show Thank you for listening, much metta, Dr G https://www.pranhwellness.com/
Our Rage, frustration, anger, irritation rise frequently during periods of crisis and these feelings (and us, when we feel them) deserve as much attention and compassion as any other time. As an activist, I have firsthand experience with the profound benefits of both loving-kindness-compassion as well as rage-anger-frustration. In this episode, I invite us to notice how all feelings are feedback and our meditation practice can help us develop an attitude of observing those feelings so we can ...
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