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
- 80
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Day 27: Put on your oxygen mask first before helping others
Day 26: Our mental health challenges can serve as a wake-up call
Continuing my reflections on depression and anxiety
We'd love to hear from you, send us a text!
Thank you for listening,
much metta,
Dr G
Day 25: The phenomenon called Depression and Anxiety
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 th…
Day 24: Mental Health Awareness week / month/year/life!
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.
Day 23: Sunday Blues
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
Day 22: Airplane mode and the case of the missing Episode 21
Day 20: Anger and the risk of Spiritual Bypass
Anger and spirituality can co-exist. Anger and compassion can co-exist. But could compassion help us also achieve what anger tries to?
I invite you to pause and take a deep breath...
Day 19: A pinch of Spirituality, anyone?
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?
Day 18: How Immigration can be one long process of grief
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
Day 17: Invisible work
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/
Day 16: Reflecting on ways to defuse the inner critic
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 Roge…
Day 15: Compassion towards Health anxiety
We'd love to hear from you, send us a text!
Thank you for listening,
much metta,…
Day 14: finding hope in the little things
Day 13: Sitting with Fear, one breath at a time
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 spea…
Day 12: Extending compassion to the body
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 co…
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.
Ess…
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…
