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.

Spirituality Education Health & Fitness Mental Health Health Wellness Psychology

Update frequency: every day
Average duration: 4 minutes
Episodes: 80
Years Active: 2020 - 2025

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Wellness in the form of Equanimity

I remember the time I would travel in crowded trains in Mumbai - years ago, when I still lived there. I recall how careful i had to be to hold onto something so I didn’t lose my balance while the tra…

00:05:03 | Sat 12 Dec 2020

What is mindfulness?

I occasionally use the term “mindfulness” and today I thought I would do an episode about what I mean when I talk about mindfulness. Mindfulness has its origins in different spiritual traditions. In …

00:04:58 | Wed 09 Dec 2020

Wellness by pairing new habits with aromas

our senses can play such an important role in not only recalling memories but also getting our mind to focus regardless of what is going on. So today’s episode is about using our sense of smell to co…

00:04:56 | Thu 03 Dec 2020

Wellness after periods of Burnout

As we approach winter in the US, the plant and animal kingdom prepares to hibernate. I feel aware of the limited opportunities for humans to hibernate. Our minds and bodies remain active regardless o…

00:04:36 | Tue 01 Dec 2020

November Holiday: Day of Remembrance

I had never heard of the november holiday called “Thanksgiving” before I moved to the States - the first 2-3 years that I witnessed Thanksgiving in the US, I simply treated it like any other American…

00:04:56 | Wed 25 Nov 2020

Wellness by disrupting our overthinking brain

Every living species has a super power - plants that absorb moisture even in the desert, animals that outrun other animals and humans have the capacity to think and problem-solve, we can think to the…

00:05:06 | Tue 24 Nov 2020

Mindfulness meets comfort eating : Eat your cake and have it too

I have realized there is a direct correlation between my stress and the number of chips/cake/cookies I eat in one go. In case you were wondering, I can eat 5 chips at once - like a sandwich - when I …

00:04:35 | Mon 23 Nov 2020

Wellness and Feelings: Why naming our feelings is good for us!

"How does that make you feel?" is probably the most cliched question associated with therapists. I feel a little self-conscious whenever I ask people how they feel - so in today’s episode I’ll talk a…

00:04:53 | Sat 21 Nov 2020

Wellness through Conversations: Idea for a secular prayer that the family Can do together

When we run out of conversation with ourselves and others, is there a way to reconnect, especially with family members - here or overseas? What if there could be a talking ritual that could have heal…

00:05:15 | Wed 18 Nov 2020

Wellness & Self Compassion: Come take a self-compassionate break

We’ve been juggling a lot lately- as parents- spouses- children of aging parents- friends- professionals and homemakers. Especially right now, during this pandemic. When we are overwhelmed, we can ge…

00:04:42 | Sun 15 Nov 2020

Wellness and Rest: Tips on how to get better sleep

In our everyday lives we get more reminders to do more and not enough reminders to rest. How do we get the rest our body craves, whether we realise it or not? This is an episode to get you thinking …

00:05:02 | Thu 12 Nov 2020

Wellness by integrating more movement: Tips to make it possible!

Though we may know the importance of exercise, there are many things that come in the way. This episode gets you to think creatively about getting more exercise everyday! Additional reading: Dr Kel…

00:04:15 | Wed 11 Nov 2020

Wellness : Our long term savings account

Have you noticed how often we are reminded to plan for our future either by saving money, or getting our immigration paperwork in order or planning our next holiday? What if we brought the same amoun…

00:04:38 | Sun 08 Nov 2020

Wellness and the role of Pleasure

If you count the number of thoughts that go through your mind everyday, I wonder if you will be able to notice how many of those thoughts are either worries or attempts to solve a problem, imagining …

00:04:59 | Sun 08 Nov 2020

Wellness by noticing your feelings

We are typically involved in "doing" in response to events around us, not realizing what feelings and thoughts bridge the relationship between events and our reactions. Since feelings can serve as a …

00:04:52 | Tue 03 Nov 2020

Wellness through time management

So much to do and so little time! When confronted by a never-ending list of tasks and a sense of looming deadlines, the Pomodoro technique has been a boon! Doing 4 sets of Pomodoro i.e. setting a ti…

00:04:58 | Tue 03 Nov 2020

Wellness through Body Scan meditation

The best time to manage a forest fire is to manage the first spark. Many of us have experienced how stress levels seem to go from zero to 100 in just a few minutes! And then no amount of breathing s…

00:04:54 | Sun 25 Oct 2020

Wellness by Grounding into your senses

Tuning in to your senses in order to focus on the present moment and thus strengthen your parasympathetic nervous system.

I invite you to pause and take a deep breath...

00:04:50 | Sat 24 Oct 2020

Breathe

Dr. Gitika Talwar, Phd shares the science behind the importance of taking a deep breath and why it's good to do that as often as we can.

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00:05:06 | Wed 21 Oct 2020