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Grab our FREE resources from this season here ⁠⁠https://www.maryellensaha.com/free⁠⁠ MaryEllen grieves openly for her dead parents. Anirban finds purpose in his feelings of LOSS. Anirban talks about finding his purpose after learning to cope with the deaths of two friends. He explores how his Bengali culture embraces grieving and how the stress of these losses led him to follow the path of his Ind...

Grab our FREE resources from this season here ⁠⁠https://www.maryellensaha.com/free⁠⁠ Like the title of the Sinead O’Connor album - how can we all practice “I do not want what I have not got”? This week’s podcast covers how comparison is truly the thief of joy. Anirban sharing why he feels JEALOUS. He rides the waves of online lows and screen time highs in the age of ENVY. Where does green with env...

Grab our FREE resources from this season here ⁠⁠https://www.maryellensaha.com/free⁠⁠ We cross-examine feeling cross about not putting our own happiness first. Anirban talks about how he was taught not to make a fuss, even if he feels vexed about racial injustice. He practices quietize meditation to cope better and connect to his purpose. He shares how learning this life skill has been a lifesaver...

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Grab our FREE resources from this link https://www.maryellensaha.com/free This week we explore the feeling of serenity.

Grab our FREE resources from this season here ⁠⁠https://www.maryellensaha.com/free⁠⁠ Whatever sparks joy is easy to do! Sitting in silence can be joyful. Can you create a Myfi zone? How meditation can be like running, if you enjoy the feeling of your body as it runs. Let go of end results and idea of meditation as a chore or another thing to do. Simple silence can feel so great, if we let go of de...

Grab our FREE resources from this season here ⁠⁠https://www.maryellensaha.com/free⁠⁠ Joy Part 1: This week’s podcast covers how the feeling of joy comes in many shapes and sizes as well as many types of pizza slices! Bliss can come from brown bread fresh from the oven or a drum beat, guitar lick or jazz notes. We chat about our mother tongues and how joy is often associated with childhood pleasure...

Grab our FREE resources from this season here ⁠⁠https://www.maryellensaha.com/free⁠⁠ Anirban talks about how learning to do a flick grab on his Asda skateboard built his resilience. Hope is actually developed through discomfort and adversity. Being part of the Happy Place festival in Chiswick House with Fearn Cotton has increased our personal hopefulness. Positive emotions expand our minds, in tur...

Grab our FREE resources from this season here ⁠⁠https://www.maryellensaha.com/free⁠⁠ Anirban confesses he didn't realize there is a gender difference with expressing feelings of anger. He changes his view as he discovers how women are often silenced in his own Indian community, including his Bengali mum. Ironically, his parenting stress is reduced as he learns his tween daughter used anger to...

Grab our FREE resources from this season here ⁠⁠https://www.maryellensaha.com/free⁠⁠ Anirban is feeling proud of his parenting life skills and also unpacks how Indian pride in appearance relates to immigrant assimilation in the UK. We discuss how positive emotions help us strengthen our brains' neural pathways, reducing our stress and fostering more connections to improve our relationships and...

Grab our FREE resources from this season here ⁠⁠https://www.maryellensaha.com/free⁠⁠ Anirban confesses how his bad habit of perfectionism can really stress him out. He talks about how this impacts his relationships within his own Indian community and his parenting. Mary Ellen coaches us on how lack of self-awareness and too much screen time often leads to a cycle of stress with negative feelings....