The Mindful Living

This episode is for anyone who has had to rebuild themselves from nothing at all. At 31, Jessica Taylor survived a traumatic brain injury that erased everything she knew. Twenty years later, she joins host Sana on The Mindful Living to share how she rebuilt her mind, and found an unexpected spiritual awakening along the way. Jessica describes what she calls a headquake, the near-total loss of memo...

-This episode is for anyone who feels like the world is falling apart and wonders if there's any hope left. Psychologist and author Christina Samycia joins host Sana on The Mindful Living to make sense of the chaos, not as collapse, but as a collective awakening. Christina unpacks what she calls the dysfunctional matrix, why so much of our behavior is driven by unhealed inner-child patterns, and w...

This episode is for anyone moving through life on autopilot, answering messages, meeting expectations, and quietly wondering why. Recovery coach Adam Vohra joins host Sana to talk honestly about addiction, identity, and coming back to yourself. Adam shares what real surrender looks like, why he redefined spirituality outside religion, and how small daily choices quietly shape who we become. About...

Most of us talk to ourselves in a tone we would never use with someone we love. In the bathroom mirror, in a moment of comparison, in a quiet second before sleep. The words come fast and they go unexamined, and over a lifetime, they quietly shape who we believe we are. Tobi Ojekunle, host of Mirror Talk: Soulful Conversations , joins Sana on The Mindful Living to explore the practice of positive m...

No  te : the guest is a licensed clinical psychologist, and her comments reflect her professional perspective and general education, not individualized clinical, medical, or psychological advice or a treatment recommendation for any specific child or family. Her comparison of screen-based dopamine to gambling is presented as her professional framing. The episode references childhood trauma and ch...

When was the last time you sat in a room with nothing playing, nothing scrolling, and just listened to your own breathing? If you can't remember, you're not alone. We've quietly normalized a level of noise the nervous system was never meant to hold. Robin Harris joins Sana on The Mindful Living to explore what constant scrolling and stimulation cost us, what we lose access to inside ourselves, and...

There's a kind of connection modern life keeps offering us. The late-night messages, the closeness that feels real in the moment, even when neither person is fully in it. This conversation slows down to look at it honestly. Catherine Crestani, an intuitive and inner authority guide, joins Sana to explore the difference between what feels real and what is, and what it takes to come home to ourselve...

There is a quiet voice that says it's too late, you're too old, that dream is not for someone like you. This is for anyone who has heard it, when someone walks straight into what it called impossible. At 72, with an artificial knee, Rand Timmerman hiked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine beside his brother, both in their seventies, carrying grief, recovery, and beauty, one step at a time....

We're good at moving through the day. Meetings, messages, the small fires we keep putting out. Somewhere in it, we lose touch with our own inner voice, not the one that schedules, but the one that knows. Ellen Edmondson joins Sana to talk about reconnecting with that inner truth, and finding balance from the inside out, especially when life feels too full to hear yourself think. About the Guest: E...

We spend most of our lives running. Toward something, from something, or just to stay in place. Somewhere in it we forget the simplest thing: harmony was never meant to be earned, only returned to. Polis Xinaris joins Sana to slow down and ask what it feels like to live in tune with yourself. Harmony, he says, is not a calm life; it's living close to your values through whatever comes. About the G...

Most of us have tried to change through sheer willpower, made the lists and the promises, and ended up back where we started, quietly disappointed. This conversation asks a gentler question: what if the behavior was never the real problem? Erik Fredrickson shares 17 years on his own path out of addiction, and what it taught him about living intentionally: change is built in small daily habits, and...

This is for anyone quietly carrying a healing they keep trying to force. What happens when your old worldview stops fitting the life you are living? Host Sana sits with Will and Karen, a couple who entered healing from opposite doors. Their invitation is gentle: stop fighting, start listening, and let your spiritual awakening unfold at its own pace. About the Guests: Will Rodriguez and Karen Endsl...

There's a quiet loneliness we rarely name: you can hold a room and say all the right things at work, then come home and feel like a stranger in your own conversations. Award-winning author Sandy Gerber shares why connection starts with understanding yourself, the emotional needs that drive us, and simple tools to self-regulate so you can respond instead of react. About the Guest: Sandy Gerber is a...

ou roll up the mat and for a few minutes the world feels softer. Then, between the car and the inbox, it slips away. How do we carry that peace into the loud parts of the day? Leadership coach and yoga teacher Crystal Bell shows how yoga lives far beyond the 60-minute class. Through the Yamas and Niyamas, it becomes a way of treating others, and ourselves, all day. About the Guest: Crystal Bell is...

The body knows things before the mind does, the tightness before we admit we're overwhelmed, the calm we feel only when we stop to notice. What if happiness isn't something to chase, but to feel? Positive psychologist Max Weigand shares his framework of psychosomatic intelligence, why true happiness is felt in the body, and gentle ways to raise your everyday baseline. About the Guest: Max Weigand...

What if happiness isn't waiting on the other side of the promotion, the move, or life finally settling down? What if the part of you that says "I'll be happy when…" is the very thing standing between you and the joy already quietly present? Former doctor turned opera singer and coach Ulrika Torquato joins Sana to explore happiness not as something we achieve, but as something we notice. A gentle c...

Listener Note: This episode discusses addiction and recovery. If you or someone you know is struggling, please reach out to a qualified professional or a helpline in your country. Support is available. Sometimes the moment that changes everything doesn't look like a moment at all. It looks like the same weekday, the same empty glass, the same quiet promise that tomorrow will be different. And then...

We meditate. We journal. We notice our breath. We have done some of the inner work, or at least we have started it. And still, when Monday morning comes and we sit down at the desk, something does not feel like ours. The awareness is there. The alignment isn't. So what lives in that gap between knowing yourself and actually building a life that reflects what you know? In this episode of The Mindfu...

We talk about presence constantly. It is on mugs, in captions, at the top of wellness articles. And yet most of us spend our days somewhere else entirely: mentally replaying the past or quietly dreading the future, while the only moment that is actually real slips by unnoticed. So why is something that sounds so natural so genuinely difficult to do? In this slow, grounding conversation on the Mind...

Have you ever made a decision and felt something quiet inside you, almost like a whisper, telling you the answer before your mind caught up? Most of us learn to talk ourselves out of that feeling. We call it irrational. We override it with logic, opinions, fear. But what if that quiet knowing is the most honest part of you? In this slow, honest conversation on The Mindful Living, host Sana sits wi...

If you've ever wondered why stress, urgency, or that low hum of anxiety keeps finding its way back to you, even after all the healing work, this conversation is for you. Kristen Crabtree opens up a reframe of emotional sobriety that goes deeper than thoughts. It goes into the body itself. In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits with Kristen as she shares how her body became chemicall...

When we think about our hardest moments, we usually remember them as pain, loss, or uncertainty. We rarely consider that those moments may not have been an ending at all, but the quiet beginning of something we had not yet found. Not a silver lining. Not a tidy lesson. Something real, that could only have come from going all the way through. Host Sana sits with Dr. Holly Porter, transformational l...

We chase the next number, the next milestone, the next round. And somewhere in all that chasing, we forget to arrive. This conversation is for anyone who has been moving so fast they have started to lose touch with who is doing the moving. Damon Flowers spent two decades scaling businesses while quietly studying his own mind. In this episode, he shares the moment that changed everything, what he h...

There is a conversation happening inside you right now. It has been happening all day. And for most high-achievers, it is not a kind one. Not because they are unkind people, but because nobody ever taught them to notice it. In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with Stephen McConnell, founder of the Growth Myndset Initiative, to explore the often-invisible link between how we...

Most of us have been taught to manage pain. To push through it. To get to the other side as quickly as we can. But there is another way, quieter and far less rushed, that begins with stopping long enough to ask the body what it has been trying to say all along. Sana sits with TEDx speaker and energetic healer Pearly Montagu for a slow, tender conversation about presence, grief, and the small, dail...