Healing Mindset

What if healing isn’t about becoming someone new, but about getting out of your own way long enough to discover who you were meant to be ? In this deeply honest and reflective conversation, Eli Brackenbury joins The Healing Mindset to talk about surrender, personal transformation, and the unexpected wisdom that can emerge in the middle of life’s storms. Eli shares how years of striving, control, a...

When life feels painful, most of us ask, “How do I fix this?” Rarely do we ask, “What is this experience trying to teach me?” In this thoughtful episode of The Healing Mindset , host Ria sits down with Jesse Atkinson , entrepreneur, massage professional, and former consultant, to explore the difference between coping, fixing, and genuine healing . Jesse shares his personal journey through major li...

What if the reason you feel stuck isn’t because you’re broken, but because you’ve been living in survival mode for too long ? In this powerful episode of The Healing Mindset , host Ria sits down with Paul Padgett , transformational specialist, emergency responder, author, and founder of Blueprints to Success , to explore how people can move from fear, uncertainty, and emotional reactivity into a l...

What if healing is not just about fixing the body, but about changing the relationship between your mind, your pain, and your daily choices ? In this thoughtful episode of Healing Horizons , host Ria is joined by Frank L. Titus , founder of Titus Motion Therapy , to explore what it truly means to cultivate a healing mindset . Drawing from more than 30 years of experience helping people recover fro...

For a lot of neurodivergent people, the wound was never the neurodivergence. It was what the world kept trying to do about it. If you have spent years being managed, corrected or quietly pitied, this conversation on neurodiversity and healing is for you. Thomas R Wilson talks about the difference between curing and healing, why self-acceptance is the hardest and most foundational work, and how une...

What if the most important question after a cancer diagnosis isn't "What treatment do I start?" but "What questions haven't I asked yet?" In this powerful episode of Healing Mindset, cancer patient advocate Rusty J. Roberts shares the deeply personal story that changed the course of his life. When his mother was diagnosed with stage IV cancer, she was given twelve weeks to live unless she underwen...

A healing mindset is not relentless positivity. This episode makes room for the messy middle, where nothing is resolved yet and you keep going anyway. Kim Rogers shares her own long road back to health with host Nazish, and what changed once she stopped outsourcing every question about her body. Her health views are personal experience rather than medical guidance, and they open a wider conversati...

What if the biggest obstacle to your healing isn't your past, but the story you keep telling yourself? In this thoughtful episode of Healing Mindset , counselor Stephanie McAllister explores how our inner dialogue shapes the way we see ourselves, the choices we make, and the life we believe we're capable of creating. Drawing on principles from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) , Stephanie explain...

Meet Arnold Beekes, founder of Brain Athletes, who joins The Healing Mindset to talk about why lasting healing starts with personal responsibility, not outside help. Listeners will hear why self-kindness and challenging "I'm not good enough" are central to healing, plus habits that support it. About the Guest: Arnold Beekes is founder of Brain Athletes and a coach who has lived and worked across f...

There is a quiet that arrives after everything falls apart, and it asks a hard question: who are you now? This episode is for anyone standing in that stillness, wondering how to begin again. Host Ria sits with Jennifer Halls to explore what real healing asks of us. You will leave with a gentler definition of healing, not as fixing or going back, but as moving toward your bigger self. Jennifer shar...

This episode is for anyone who thinks change needs one big dramatic moment. Host Sreemedha talks with philosophy professor Peg O'Connor about how real transformation is built through small, repeated choices. Peg shares what recovery taught her about regret, why some regret helps us grow while other kinds quietly corrode us, and why a positive vision matters as much as knowing what to leave behind....

This episode is for anyone who has been quietly avoiding a feeling they don't want to look at. Doug Red Hail Pineda, founder of The Church of Psychedelics, joins The Healing Mindset to talk about what it actually means to turn toward pain instead of running from it. Doug shares why healing has to happen from the root, not just the surface, and why the real work begins after the breakthrough, in th...

A healing mindset is not about staying positive all the time or having every answer figured out. Educator and author Wahida Mohamed joins Healing Mindset to explain why real healing starts with introspection, small daily gratitude, and the willingness to keep choosing yourself, even on the hardest days. Wahida shares stories from her book Wisdom Feast, practical ways to notice when your cup is emp...

There is a moment when you realise you have carried something so long you have forgotten what lightness feels like. Rand Timmerman has had several of those moments across eighty years, and none of them arrived because the difficulty disappeared. From a childhood Christmas with one repaired wagon under the tree, to Vietnam, to law, to nearly losing his life to alcohol in his sixties, to hiking the...

Most emotional turmoil is not a character flaw. It is the predictable output of a system nobody ever explained to us. If you keep returning to the same fear, shame or frustration even when you know it is not serving you, this conversation on emotional regulation and rewiring the brain is for you. Alan Bodnar shares his self-driving framework: your automatic responses are the accelerator, and delib...

High performers rarely crash from lack of discipline. More often, a nervous system stuck in overdrive has simply forgotten how to come down. This one is for anyone building something impressive while quietly running on empty. Dr. Brian Paris draws on his own burnout and recovery to show how self-awareness, body signals, and psychological safety turn relentless output into sustainable success. His...

You started reading labels, and now everything feels suspect. You want to make cleaner choices for your home and your family, but the information contradicts itself, the marketing is louder than the truth, and the easiest thing to do is stop looking. If that's you, this episode is for you. Amy Hartshorn has been living non-toxic for 34 years, since long before it was a trend. She makes the case th...

If you love a young athlete, you have probably watched them push through pain and call it strength. This episode is for the parents, coaches and student athletes who are tired of that trade. It looks honestly at athlete burnout, injury recovery, and what happens to a young person's identity when their whole sense of self is tied to how they perform. Dr. Kindra Ingram brings more than twenty years...

Male loneliness is not really about having no one around. It is about being taught, early and often, that needing support is weakness. This episode is for men carrying something quietly, and for anyone who loves one. Jason Lange explains what a men's group actually is, why boys learn to leave their bodies, what embodiment means in plain language, and the one small step any man can take this week w...

You did everything right. The surgeries, the specialists, the money. The pain came back anyway. This episode is for anyone who has quietly run out of hope. Heather Yoshimura, who lived this herself, explains why pain can persist after successful surgery, what central sensitization actually means, and why that understanding is a reason for hope rather than blame. About the Guest: Heather Yoshimura...

There's a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from trying everything, therapy, medication, every piece of advice, and still not finding relief. This episode of The Healing Mindset speaks directly to that exhaustion. Host Nazish talks with Dr. Aubrey Verdun, a double board-certified anesthesiologist and founder of Freedom Ketamine Treatment Centers, about ketamine therapy for treatment-resista...

There's a particular kind of tiredness that doesn't show up on any chart. It belongs to the people who spend their lives holding others, the nurses, the caregivers, the ones who stay steady for everyone else while quietly unraveling on the drive home. This episode of The Healing Mindset turns the care around. Host Nazish talks with registered nurse Joel Polley about what it actually takes for care...

Listen to the voice in your head for a single honest day, the one that would never speak to a friend the way it speaks to you. This episode of The Healing Mindset sits with that voice directly. Host Shriya talks with psychologist and self-compassion teacher Dr. Ellen Albertson about the quietly radical idea that healing doesn't begin with fixing yourself. It begins with finally being kind to yours...

We pour ourselves into what we build, hoping the achievement will finally heal something underneath. But success rarely reaches the ache it's meant to fix, and we keep building on ground that never feels solid. This episode is for anyone who has ever hit a goal and wondered why it didn't feel like enough. Entrepreneur Tomide Akinola joins the show to talk about the difference between fulfillment a...

Some of the beliefs shaping our lives were never ours to begin with. They were absorbed, not chosen, and we carry them as fact long after they stop serving us. This episode is for anyone who senses a ceiling on their life but can't quite name where it came from. Navy chaplain and author Dr. Larry Brant joins the show to talk about the beliefs we inherit without noticing, why we cling to familiar p...