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
Day 11: Let's talk about Anxiety!
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 f…
Day 10: Inserting mindful pauses throughout the day
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.
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Day 9: Giving our rage, anger and other "unglamorous" feelings room to breathe
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 acti…
Day 8: Why focus on loving-kindness-compassion when you are in crisis?
Focusing on positive and helpful emotions such as loving-kindness and compassion can seem like a denial of stressful realities. Today's episode is a bit about why those emotions aren't about denial b…
Day 7: Wellness even during times of stress
Day 6: Self compassion when you feel despair and helplessness
Can you imagine being truthful in response to the question, "am I doing enough?". Self-compassion helps you acknowledge all your demands and your human limitations alongside helping you recognize tha…
Day 5: Digest pandemic fatigue with a dose of self compassion
An invitation to take time and space to digest your feelings when pandemic fatigue has already overfilled your plate of feelings!
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Day 4: Keep putting one foot in front of the other
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Day 3: Being nourished by the 4 Elements: Earth, Fire, Water, Air
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Day 2: Grief and giving yourself space
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Day 1: Being the Compassionate Presence the World needs right now
invitation to join me for 30 days of breathing together, pausing together so we can show up as the Compassionate Presence our families and communities and the world needs right now
Wellness and Imperfection
A reflection on giving myself and hopefully "you" the permission to be imperfect.
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Thank you for listening,
much metta,
Dr G
Breath Awareness : A guided practice
Amishi Jha , a Psychologist at the University of Miami talks about Breath Awareness practice as a “foundational workout for the brain’s attention system”. This guided practice is inspired by her word…
Wellness through meta-awareness
This episode discusses meta-awareness, knowing where our mind is AND what our mind is doing. Richard Davidson, a Professor of Psychology at University of Wisconsin-Madison, spoke about ‘meta-awarenes…
Wellness through body scan meditation - Part 2
Do you know a part of nature that we frequently forget to acknowledge? Ourselves!
Our body is such an astounding mix of cells - chemicals - electrical activity through our nervous system. We often for…
Wellness by Pausing to take a breath
I have noticed I often live my life and do things with a tremendous sense of urgency. I don’t always stop to ask myself if something can wait a few minutes. I treat most things as “now - now- now” . …
RAIN of Self Compassion - companion episode to Wellness and Self Compassion
This is a guided meditation inspired by the work of Tara Brach, read more here : https://www.tarabrach.com/meditation-the-rain-of-self-compassion/
Wellness through Self Compassion
Self-compassion involves treating yourself the way you would treat a friend who is having a hard time. According to prominent self-compassion researchers, psychologists Kristin Neff and Chris Germer,…
Mindfulness-based meditation:Guided Practice
A companion to episode 23 and 24, this episode guides you to spend time with yourself through silence and reminders to notice the thoughts and sensations that naturally arise within yourself. Using w…
Wellness through Meditation
In episode 23, I spoke about the lizard brain, mouse brain and the monkey brain. This episode (episode 24) is about Understanding how different parts of our brain can work in harmony is something tha…