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.
- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 4 minutes
- Episodes
- 85
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
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 dire…
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.
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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 …
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 ma…
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.…
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 intro…
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.
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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 …
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…
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 wi…
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 mant…
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 o…
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 th…
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.…
Day 7: Imposter syndrome
Day 6: mindful meetings?
Day 5: mindful breaks at work by listening to the body
Day 4: bringing mindfulness to our stress response at work
Day 3: Mindfulness and Karmayoga