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Lights In

Glenn Ostlund

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Lights In is a meditative exploration of consciousness inspired by Annaka Harris’s Lights On audio documentary. Hosted by therapist and folklorist Glenn Ostlund, each episode blends guided meditation, sound healing, and reflective commentary to invite listeners into a direct felt experience of the mystery of awareness. With binaural beats, Solfeggio frequencies, and golden ratio rhythms, Lights In is both a study guide and an inner journey—designed to soothe the nervous system, deepen insigh ...
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The Mindful Living

Avik Chakraborty and Sana

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Welcome to The Mindful Living, where we explore mental health and mindfulness. I’m your host, Sana, and in each episode, we’ll hear from inspiring guests—experts, thought leaders, and individuals with remarkable stories—who share their insights on living a healthier, more mindful life. We’ll dive into managing stress, overcoming challenges, and finding balance. Whether you seek inspiration, support, or a moment of relaxation,.Want to be a guest on The Mindful Living? Send The Mindful Living ...
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Mindfulness is powerful, so why do mindful leaders still burn out, and why do workplaces treat it like a band-aid instead of fixing what’s broken? In this episode of The Mindful Living podcast, Sana speaks with Dalida Turkovic about practical mindfulness for leadership: self-awareness, better decisions under pressure, and creating psychological saf…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with Richard Smith to unpack what “navigating awareness” actually looks like in real life. They break down Richard’s Orbits of Consciousness framework. A practical map for how we move through fear, judgment, survival mode, compassion, connection, and those rare moments of awe. If yo…
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In this The Mindful Living Podcast episode, host Charu breaks down “evolving human consciousness” into real life signals. More synchronicity, better alignment, fewer reactive choices. Guests Alexander and Viki share how they use the Deck of 52 and Source Cards as a mindfulness framework for high achievers who look successful on paper but still feel…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with David Coupland, the creator of Qu and the Qu Anytime app, to unpack a real problem in modern life. We are hyper-connected, yet emotionally underfed. David shares how he walked away from a successful film and TV career when “success” started feeling like self-betrayal, then rebu…
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On the Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with nervous system coach and speaker Aaron Gambel to get real about men’s mental health, childhood trauma, and what it actually takes to rebuild your life after hitting a breaking point. This episode unpacks nervous system regulation in plain language. Fight or flight, emotional shutdown, and why …
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On The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with Donna Hartley, a plane crash survivor who rebuilt her life through grit, mindset, and spiritual practice. Donna shares what it felt like to survive a DC-10 crash and how that near-death moment reshaped her identity, her relationships, and her purpose. She also opens up about navigating stage 3…
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In this The Mindful Living Podcast episode, host Sana sits down with Caleb Matthews to talk about what happens when a long-held dream ends, a chapter closes, or your “calling” suddenly feels like it is slipping away. They unpack the real-life psychology and spirituality of transition, from layoffs and identity loss to the slow grind of corporate se…
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In this The Mindful Living Podcast episode host Sana sits down with Mike Wood to talk about the subconscious mind. How early life moments can wire negative core beliefs that drive anxiety, depression, self doubt, and “autopilot” living. Mike shares his personal journey. Including learning to read at 25 and doing the inner work that helped him recla…
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In this The Mindful Living Podcast episode, host Sana gets real about fear, doubt, stress, money anxiety, late-night spirals, and the constant noise of news and culture. Reverend Dr. Steven Golden breaks down his practical one-minute practices. Simple breathwork, internal affirmations, morning and bedtime routines, and a “6-breath reset” designed t…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with Dr Jonathan Locust, founder of ConsciRise, to unpack what mindful resilience really looks like when life has already broken your body and your bandwidth. This is not about fake positivity or hustle culture. It is about how to move from quiet burnout into honest, strategic, sust…
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This Mindful Living Podcast episode goes straight into the deep end of mental health, suicidal pain, and spiritual healing through A Course in Miracles. Host Sana sits down with author and suicide prevention advocate Susan Michel to unpack what it really means to say “I cannot take this pain anymore” and how that is different from truly wanting to …
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On this episode of The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with food systems strategist and creator of My Mindful Kitchen and The 3 Ingredient Kitchen, Janet Irizarry, to unpack a simple but uncomfortable truth. Your kitchen is a mirror. From overstuffed fridges and endless takeout bags to mindful leftovers and shared meals, Janet shows how…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living with Yusuf, we cut through the movie myths around hypnosis and get into how it actually works in real life. Certified clinical hypnotherapist and medical hypnosis specialist Craig Meriwether, founder of Sacred Mystery Hypnotherapy and author of Past Lives Guidebook, explains what an altered state of consciousne…
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*This episode contains discussion of childhood trauma, sexual abuse, physical and emotional abuse, addiction and self medicating, poverty, systemic neglect, death and suicide. Listener discretion is advised. Please take care of your nervous system while listening. Pause, skip sections or step away at any time if you feel overwhelmed. If you are in …
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In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with Human Design and Gene Keys guide Miranda Mitchell to unpack what actually happens when you stop treating your life like a personality quiz and start using it as a mirror. They talk about Human Design as a deconditioning tool, how Gene Keys moves through shadow, gift, and Siddhi, and wh…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with Tracy Austin, founder of Elevated Talent Consulting and host of the People Strategy podcast, to unpack what mindful leadership actually looks like on job sites in the trades. Instead of treating mindfulness as a buzzword, Tracy breaks it down as clear intention, safety focused …
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In this The Mindful Living Podcast episode, host Sana sits down with Rachel Brown to unpack a hard truth. if we do not deal with our own trauma, stress, and people pleasing, our children end up carrying the emotional bill. Rachel shares how chronic illness, IVF, career burnout and a full nervous system finally forced her to stop chasing the next fi…
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Mindfulness sounds peaceful in theory. Quiet rooms. Slow breathing. A still mind. But for an ADHD brain that runs on rapid fire, the traditional version feels unrealistic. In this The Mindful Living episode, host Sana cuts through the noise with ADHD educator and dopamine strategist Jorie Houlihan, who brings a ground level understanding of what pr…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with Melissa Deally, integrative mind body health practitioner, NLP trainer and Timeline Therapy trainer, to break down how our unconscious mind quietly drives our emotional patterns, anxiety and even dis-ease in the body. They unpack what Timeline Therapy actually is, how it integr…
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This episode of the Mindful Living Podcast cuts through the noise and gets straight into the big existential debate. Why are we here? What is our purpose? And why does modern life keep pulling us away from the answers already sitting within us? Sana sits down with global spiritual teacher and bestselling author Hans Wilhelm, whose visual teachings …
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Feeling is data. In this conversation on The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana and guest Tera Ajeet unpack how a non-visual life builds precise intuition. Tera explains training sensitivity like a muscle. grounding practices that keep spirituality practical. and why embodiment prevents “woo” from becoming escapism. We cover navigating a hyper-visua…
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On this The Mindful Living episode, host Sana and transformation coach Andrew Wilson cut through self-help noise to examine the “inner mirror”—the honest feedback loop between our thoughts, bodies, and choices. Andrew shares how grief, addiction, and toxic work culture pushed him to rebuild from the inside out, and how tools like NLP, timeline work…
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In this The Mindful Living episode, host Sana talks with Michelle Houston, founder of To Be Honest Beverage Co., about choosing mindfulness over default drinking. Michelle explains how a short pause for mental health turned into four years alcohol-free, what actually changes in your brain and routines, and why inclusive, non-alcohol-centered spaces…
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On this The Mindful Living episode, host Sana sits down with therapist and former corporate high-achiever Alicia Zielinski-Straub to talk about what it really takes to “unmask” — moving beyond people-pleasing, stress autopilot, and cognitive overdrive. Alicia explains how nervous system regulation, breath-led practices, and present-moment sensing h…
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On this The Mindful Living episode, host Sana sits down with Jennifer Edwards—Certified Financial Planner turned financial therapist—to unpack mindful spending beyond budgets and hacks. We explore how childhood money scripts, nervous-system triggers, relationships, and culture shape everyday financial choices. Jennifer walks through her 7-Layer Fin…
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On The Mindful Living, host Avik speaks with executive coach Yosi Kossowsky about using curiosity to interrupt snap judgments, reduce reactivity, and improve leadership, relationships, and daily decision-making. Yosi explains why we’re not mind readers, how “backstories” we invent create friction, and how to retrain attention to what’s actually kno…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana sits down with Rahul Karan Sharma, a leadership strategist, Forbes Coaches Council member, and creator of the CLIMB Framework. Rahul shares how mindful leadership goes beyond authority and metrics, emphasizing presence, purpose, and performance. Discover how to navigate corporate challenges, …
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On this The Mindful Living Podcast episode, host Nazish (filling in for Sana) sits down with psychotherapist and author Lisa Gray, LMFT, to get practical about love when chronic illness enters the relationship. We unpack what acceptance really means in Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT), how to renegotiate intimacy beyond sex, why caregiver–pati…
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On this episode of The Mindful Living Podcast, host Sana explores how physical symptoms can be emotional messages—and how to listen before the body “screams.” Guest Beth Mielbrecht, Health Detective (mechanical engineer turned energy-medicine practitioner) breaks down bioenergetic testing, stress “metabolizing,” and the role of boundaries in healin…
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On this episode of The Mindful Living with host Sana, Sydney-based CPA-qualified finance professional and Buddhist practitioner Saw Myint breaks down self-mental healthcare “the Buddhist way,” in clear, everyday language. We explore why most reactions are echoes of memory, how our six senses filter perception, and simple, science-aligned micro-prac…
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On The Mindful Living podcast with host Sana, Dr. Anne White (DAOM) unpacks how chronic fear, worry, and stress can keep the body in a “not-ready” loop she calls Pregnancy Avoidant Syndrome—and how simple, science-backed neuroplasticity tools help the brain-body relearn safety for conception. We cover the cortisol–progesterone trade-off, why “just …
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Ambitious women often “do everything right” yet feel behind—especially in postpartum and perimenopause. In this direct conversation on The Mindful Living, Dr. Amy Loden Tiffany (physician, entrepreneur, TEDx speaker, author of The Postpartum Pivot) breaks down mindset traps—perfectionism, catastrophizing, comparison, all-or-nothing thinking—and how…
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Binge eating isn’t a character flaw—it’s a conditioned loop your brain learned to automate. In this straight-talk episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana and Amber Abila (The Confident Eater) break down the habit cycle behind binge eating, why willpower alone collapses under nervous-system stress, and how neuroplasticity, visualization, and identi…
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On The Mindful Living with host Sana, we cut through the noise and look at how the ego quietly fuels stress—and how to step out of the loop. Danielle Matthews, who rebuilt her inner world after a traumatic brain injury, explains four common ego patterns (resistance, control, identity, urgency) and offers grounded tools—acceptance, nervous-system aw…
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On The Mindful Living podcast, host Sana speaks with Rachel Lundberg, founder of Yoga Oak University and creator of the Alignment-Based Yoga Specialist Certification. Rachel reframes yoga from “poses on a mat” to a practical, teachable system that supports chronic illness recovery, aging bodies, and anyone feeling disconnected. We dig into why many…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living with host Sana, certified health and executive life coach Barbara Palmer joins us to explore how disempowering thoughts and limiting beliefs silently shape our identity, relationships, and success. Together, we dive into the roots of self-doubt, imposter syndrome, and the “I’m not enough” mindset—beliefs often …
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In this episode of The Mindful Living with host Sana, we explore why healing is not meant to be done alone. My guest, Valerie Pedigo, founder of Renewed Spirit Adventures, shares her personal journey through burnout, illness, and rediscovery—and why community became her lifeline. We discuss the hidden costs of high-achieving culture, the stigma aro…
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On The Mindful Living, host Sana talks with PJ Glassey (XGym) about replacing “mindless” sets-and-reps with time-under-tension, form-first, slow, controlled movement that doubles as active meditation. We cover why two 21-minutesessions per week can rival hours of traditional training, how prefrontal cortex engagement improves coordination, decision…
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On the The Mindful Living Podcast with host Sana, personal alignment coach Daniel Anderson breaks down how mindfulness becomes a lifeline in real crisis—job loss, addiction recovery, divorce, grief, and near-homelessness. He explains his LEGACY Code for getting back into alignment, setting boundaries that hold, and choosing presence over panic. Thi…
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On this The Mindful Living Podcast episode, host Sana explores what it really means to live as a whole human—with integrity, softness, and clarity—alongside Teresa Thomas-Smith, leadership coach and Mayor of Palmetto, Georgia. Teresa unpacks feminine leadership without hard-edge posturing, how to set non-negotiable boundaries, why surrender often b…
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When a late-night ER visit revealed a cancer diagnosis, former career teacher Allison Pazuk refused to be a passive patient. In this direct, no-fluff conversation on The Mindful Living, host Sana digs into Allison’s BONKERS framework: Brave, Open, Non-conforming, Kick-ass, Emotional, Resilient, and Self-advocacy. We unpack how mindset, meditation, …
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On this The Mindful Living Podcast conversation with host Sana, trauma recovery coach and bodyworker Lori Maher breaks down nervous-system dysregulation in plain language and shares how Chinese medicine, acupressure/shiatsu, Reiki, yoga, and daily self-care helped her move from constant anxiety to steadier living. We get specific about “fight/fligh…
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On The Mindful Living with host Sana, Dr. Will Tuttle—author of the international bestseller The World Peace Diet and former Zen monk—breaks down how everyday choices around food, stillness, and relationships shape our health and our impact. We unpack plant-based nutrition, the role of organic and minimally processed foods, daily silence and medita…
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On The Mindful Living podcast, host Avik sits down with Dr. Kevin Smith, functional medicine practitioner and clinical director of the Chronic Conditions Center (Pennsylvania), to dissect why so many people feel “normal labs” yet live with fatigue, brain fog, stubborn weight, and aches. We cover thyroid health, Hashimoto’s autoimmunity, the gut–thy…
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On this episode of The Mindful Living with host Sana, we dive into an overlooked superfood of the sea—marine phytoplankton. Guest David Hunter shares how his journey began with witnessing an unexpected recovery that sparked two decades of dedication to researching and cultivating phytoplankton. Together, we explore its potential to nourish cellular…
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On this episode of The Mindful Living with host Sana, we explore what it truly means to thrive as a woman in midlife. Guest Peggy Moore, a registered nurse with over 25 years of experience in critical care and trauma recovery, shares her journey from burnout and imbalance to reclaiming vitality through functional medicine, mindset shifts, and mindf…
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Founders don’t burn out because they’re weak; they burn out because they ignore how energy, recovery, and mindset shape performance. On this episode of The Mindful Living, we sit down with Alessandro Grampa, founder of Whole Grain Wisdom, to unpack a direct, science-meets-spirit view of high achievement: homeostasis over hustle, intention over impu…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living, host Sana sits down with Christian W Schnepf to challenge one of life’s most ingrained beliefs—that we must suffer before we can truly deserve joy. Christian, founder of the GoodTime App and creator of the Good Time Ratio, reveals why our culture’s obsession with sacrifice and delayed gratification is outdated…
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In this episode of The Mindful Living, Sana digs into the lived story behind Paradoxical Heka and Kametapysics with Reginald Martin. We unpack how ancient symbols (cross, caduceus/kundalini), depth psychology, and “as above so below / as within so without” translate into practical sovereignty—confidence, self-worth, and acting on faith rather than …
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This episode of The Mindful Living examines suicidal ideation as a soul-level signal rather than a moral failing. Host Sana and guest Mridula Agarwal map how despair often hides behind everyday smiles, how small repeated disappointments snowball into catastrophic meaning, and what friends, families, and communities can practically do to notice and …
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