The Mindful Journey
by Avik & Sana
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About this podcast
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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- Inner Transformation: Start Where You Are with Dr. Lorea Martínez Pérez · 23 minEver feel stuck and quietly wonder why? This episode is for anyone on an inner transformation journey who keeps chasing a destination and has forgotten to listen to where they…
- Mindfulness and Inner Change: Why Self-Care Works Better Together with Maria Van Der Maaten · 32 minWhat if the discomfort of inner change isn’t something to escape, but an invitation to listen? On The Mindful Journey, host Swati and sociologist Maria Van Der Maaten explore…
- Psychic Medium and Attorney: Jason Zuk on Intuition, Evidence and Grief · 44 minHow do you trust what you cannot prove, when your training says to prove everything? If you carry both a need for evidence and a quiet inner knowing, this conversation is for…
- Positive Attitude About Aging: Dr. James Beckwith on Positively Not Old · 28 minGrowing older can feel like a countdown, or like a long road walked one season at a time. If birthdays bring a quiet dread, this conversation offers another way to look at the…
- Navigating Inner Transformation: Finding Peace in Who You Are with Xenia Ioannidis · 39 minWhat does it actually mean to go through an inner transformation, without pressuring yourself to have it all figured out? On The Mindful Journey, host Swati and author and healer…
- Frequency Healing Explained: Science, Risks & Real-World Experiences | Michael Upstone · 34 minWhat 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…
- Endometriosis and Chronic Pain: When Surgery Doesn't Help | Heather Yoshimura · 24 minThis is my strongest choice because it addresses a specific concern that listeners with endometriosis may be searching for, while accurately reflecting Heather's experience…
- The Placebo and Nocebo Effect: How Belief Shapes Health with Dr. Janey Little · 50 minWhat 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…
- Handling Pressure and Mistakes: Clearer Decision Making with Grand Prix Rider Silvia Rizzo · 25 minHave 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…
- Only Go Straight, Don’t Know: Returning Mindfulness to Its Zen Source with Dr. David Lee Fish · 28 minMindfulness 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…
- What If You’re Not Too Sensitive—Just in the Wrong Environment? | Kathryn Riordan · 29 minHave 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…
- Reconnecting With Your Purpose, with Baiba Wisse | Mindful Journey · 22 minIn 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…
- Scott Ambrose on Finding Presence Through Meditation and Inner Growth · 31 minMoving 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…
- Navigating Change With Presence: Mindful Awareness with Steve Barton · 29 minAlways 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…
- Trusting Your Inner Knowing Through Life Transitions with Steven Golden · 16 minWhat 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…
- Understanding Resistance: Why We Hold Back and How to Listen with Sam Brooks · 26 minWhy 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…
- Finding Presence in Daily Life: The Power of the Pause with Kirana Sidin · 25 minAre 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…
- Navigating Inner Transformation Through Mindfulness and Faith with Michael Muccio · 30 minWhy 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…
- Navigating Change Through Awareness: Marcia Ruben on The Mindful Journey · 25 minWhat 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…
- Making Friends With Your Ego: David Fiala on The Mindful Journey · 18 minWhat 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…
- Breaking the Addiction to Achievement: Anu Verma on The Mindful Journey · 30 minWhat 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…
- Trusting Intuition Every Day: Katharine Giovanni on The Mindful Journey · 25 minThere'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…
- Why Serving Others Only Works When You Serve Yourself Too | Cindy Rand on The Mindful Journey · 35 minNearly 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…
- Spiritual Regression Hypnotherapy: Releasing Trauma Without Reliving It, with Taras Machula · 38 minMost 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…
- How to Listen to Your Body: Andrew Scheim on Body Work and Detox · 37 minMost 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…
- Health on Planet Earth: The HOPE Framework with David Gottfried · 26 minThere'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…
- Boundaries and Internal Safety: Barb Nangle on How to Stop Abandoning Yourself · 35 minMost 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…
- There Is No Destination, Only Presence: Terry Bean on The Mindful Journey · 25 minWe 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…
- Surviving Your Own Dark Night of the Soul: Frances Fayden on The Mindful Journey · 37 minThe 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…
- Building a Relationship on Purpose: The Monument Method with Gaylen Wilson · 23 minMost 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…
- Releasing Fear After the Storm: Fadi Sarieddine on The Mindful Journey · 28 minWhen 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…
- From Self-Forgetting to Self-Remembering: Theresa Gale on The Mindful Journey · 27 minMost 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…
- Coping With Uncertain Times and Self-Esteem: Kate Heartsong on The Mindful Journey · 34 minThere'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…
- A Lifelong Search for Truth and Healing: Daniel Winrose on The Mindful Journey · 26 minImagine 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…
- A Healthier Home Without the Overwhelm: Risa Suzuki on The Mindful Journey · 32 minYou 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…
- Reclaiming Your Health After 40: Brian Parana on The Mindful Journey · 37 minHave 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…
- You Are Not Broken: Zachariah Rehder on Breathwork and What Blocks Healing · 24 minMany 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…
- From "You're a Mistake" to Changing Lives: Thomas Wilson on Neurodiversity, Storytelling, and Belonging · 23 minWhat 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…
- You Already Know: Jennifer Halls on Trusting Your Intuition · 39 minMost 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…
- Survival Mode: What Becomes Possible When You Stop Just Surviving, with Paul Padgett · 35 minYou 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…
- When the Body Feels Uncertain: Finding Steadiness Through Illness, with Jihane Laraichi · 30 minMeet Jihane Laraichi, energy coach and certified therapist, who joins Mindful Journey to talk about staying grounded through serious illness, including cancer diagnosis and…
- Befriending Your Emotions: Elisa Neven-Pugh on Faith, Disability, and Being Real · 27 minThis 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…
- How to Negotiate With Your Chatty Mind: Claudia Gallegos on Overthinking and Inner Peace · 27 minThis 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…
- What About Me? The Question Underneath Everything, with Tom Anderson · 37 minThere 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…
- A Hike Is Something You Finish. A Pilgrimage Finishes You, with Reino Gevers · 38 minTwelve 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…
- When Healing Becomes a Checklist: Nutrition, Mindset, and Letting Love In, with Dr. Ellyn Hilliard-McLeod · 27 minIf 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…
- Living Inside the Question: Chronic Illness, Silence, and Self-Advocacy | Dr. Jeffrey Bone · 22 minFor 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…
- Spiritual Awakening: How to Recognize Divine Guidance in Everyday Life, with Shawngela Pierce · 25 minFor 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…
- The World Is Kind, Not Dangerous: Joe Hehn on The Mindful Journey · 28 minThis 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…
- Go Out Living: Jonathan Brandt on Love, Loss, and Choosing Life · 27 minThis 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…
