The Positive Minds Australia Podcast with Madhavi Nawana Parker
This weekly podcast blends psychology, neuroscience, and real-life experience into practical and hopeful conversations. It aims to help listeners build happier minds, stronger relationships, and more connected, compassionate communities. The tone is warm and encouraging, inviting listeners to relax and grow together.
Episodes
Anyone else stuck in overdrive with that pesky mental load?
Does your brain ever feel like it has 47 tabs open... and every tab is playing different content?Maybe you're lying in bed replaying conversations, mentally writing tomorrow's to-do list, worrying about your kids, your work, your family, what you forgot to do yesterday, and what might go wrong next week. You'd love your brain to have an off switch... but it seems to have missed the memo.If that so
But I want to be right! Why apologising and admitting our mistakes isn’t always easy.
Have you ever been absolutely certain you were right... only to discover (usually much later than you'd like to admit) that you were actually wrong?Yep. That moment where your brain says, "Maybe don't bring this up... maybe just quietly move on and pretend it never happened." Because admitting we're wrong can feel uncomfortable, embarrassing, and sometimes like a direct hit to our pride.The truth
Are hard things your kryptonite?
What if feeling depleted and overwhelmed by hard things, actually has nothing to do with whether or not you can handle hard things?Hard things are hard.So often, the hardest part of a difficult experience isn’t actually the experience itself. It’s the conversation happening in our own minds afterwards.Those thoughts add a second layer of suffering to an already difficult moment.In this episode, we
Why can’t I put my phone down?
We all know we probably spend too much time on our devices... so why is it so incredibly hard to put them down? If you've ever promised yourself "just five more minutes" only to look up an hour later, or you've found yourself in a daily battle with your kids over screens, this episode is for you.In this episode, we unpack why technology is so appealing, what it's doing to our brains, and why strug
Why do we yell, when we know we shouldn’t, and wish we didn’t?
Have you ever snapped at someone you love... and then wondered, "Where on earth did that come from?" One minute you're coping, the next you're raising your voice, saying something you didn't mean, and carrying around guilt for the rest of the day. If you've ever felt like a kind, caring person who occasionally turns into someone you barely recognise when you're stressed, tired or overwhelmed, this
