Liza Horan

As Mindstream caps five years, here’s what’s next

Since Mindstream Ventures Ltd. was founded in October 2022, there’s been a great deal of progress, learning and connecting within the expansive mind-body-spirit realm. I have to remind myself of that because I’m so focused on the big vision for…

Five years, five lessons on the mind-body-spirit movement

Letter from the Editor | 1 Five years ago I founded Mindstream Ventures Ltd. in Scotland. I was a stranger in a strange land, having come to Edinburgh from New York City via London, to cover the mind-body-spirit movement for greater health and…

Science on mysteries of human nature making strides, despite resistance

By Liza Horan There’s a whirlwind of action happening on the frontiers of scientific research into phenomena of the human experience — but you’d never know it. Unless you are following the scientists or the organisations sharing their research, it’s…

NewsWrap: Wellness economy to rebound while demand grows for natural health

By Liza Horan, Editor Covid-19 contributed to the deaths of nearly 15 million people, the World Health Organization announced today. While much of modern life has seemed to have moved on from the pandemic’s restrictions on testing, wearing masks and…

Silver lining of pandemic is universal shift toward wellness

By Liza Horan, Editor PHOTOS/Pexels Did it take a pandemic to wake us up to the importance of wellness? That’s the emerging benefit from Covid-19, according to Global Wellness Institute researchers Katherine Johnston and Ophelia Yeung. They just…

Pandemic hurt and helped growing wellness industry

By Liza Horan, Editor The global wellness economy was on a spectacular roll, reaching a peak valuation of $4.9 trillion in 2019, just before Covid-19 hit. While imposed lockdowns devastated businesses that provided in-person services, other industry…

Podcast transcript (Ep. 8): The shift to mental wellbeing

This episode of The Mindstream Podcast is the heart of a special editorial package, Mental Wellbeing 2021, which offers articles that delve into aspects covered in this episode. It was released on 20 September 2021. Below is the full transcript,…

Mental Wellbeing: “Mental health” conversation progresses to wellbeing

This is part of Mindstream’s editorial package on Mental Wellbeing, featuring the podcast and five articles. By Liza Horan, Editor Over the past few years, many levels of society have been shifting the conversation of “mental health” from one focused…

Mental Wellbeing: How we can improve the world’s mental status quo

This is part of Mindstream’s editorial package on Mental Wellbeing surrounding Episode 8 of The Mindstream Podcast. By Liza Horan, Editor My research to produce this Mental Wellbeing content package revealed hard evidence that our thoughts and…

Mental Wellbeing: Governments are cultivating a “wellbeing economy”

This is part of Mindstream’s editorial package on Mental Wellbeing surrounding Episode 8 of The Mindstream Podcast. By Liza Horan, Editor “Fifty years have elapsed since Robert Kennedy rightly said that GDP measures everything except that which makes…

Mental Wellbeing: The state of the world’s thoughts and feelings

This is part of Mindstream’s editorial package on Mental Wellbeing surrounding Episode 8 of The Mindstream Podcast. By Liza Horan, Editor COVID-19 swept in like a flash flood and hijacked the global news, making health the top story. But physical…

Mental Wellbeing: Demystifying the language of our emotional and intellectual selves

This is part of Mindstream’s editorial package on Mental Wellbeing surrounding Episode 8 of The Mindstream Podcast. By Liza Horan, Editor The earliest notion of wellbeing in recorded history goes back to the Greek philosophers. There’s a series of…

Mental Wellbeing in 2021

Mental Wellbeing’s time has come. The pandemic was the final push from the dark corners into the light of everyday conversation and political policy-making. While “mental health” has come to carry a sense of stigma to the point of deterring people…

Episode 8: The shift to mental wellbeing

The conversation around "mental health" is shifting from a focus on disease and dysfunction to holistic wellbeing. It's a bottom-up and top-down approach, and it couldn't be better timed because we are now living the "global mental health crisis"…

25 quotes give reason for hope

This feature is part of Mindstream’s editorial package to support the Wellness Moonshot, an awareness campaign for a world free of preventable disease that’s led by The Global Wellness Institute. The April 2021 theme is HOPE. Here’s a collection of…

Don’t give up — surrender with hope

By Liza Horan, Editor of Mindstream Even in the darkest days of my life, I could not extinguish hope. It would have been easier if I could just give up altogether, but some nagging positivity inside wouldn’t let me. I tried to give up — I really did.…

Wellness Moonshot for April 2021: HOPE

This feature is part of Mindstream’s editorial package to support the Wellness Moonshot, an awareness campaign for a world free of preventable disease that’s led by The Global Wellness Institute. The April 2021 theme is HOPE. “For our health, hope is…

Cultivate prosperity through head, heart and hands

By Liza Horan, Editor Is prosperity earned or granted? I think it’s a bit of both. Just as a rose bush starts as a seedling intent on growing — despite ebbing and flowing resources like too much sun and too little rain — we, too, must adapt to…

Prosperity requires some grounding ‘alone time’

PHOTO Pexels/Louis This feature is part of Mindstream’s participation in the Wellness Moonshot, an awareness campaign for a world free of preventable disease that’s led by The Global Wellness Institute. View our full package for the March 2021 theme…

Wellness Moonshot for March 2021: PROSPER

This feature is part of Mindstream’s participation in the Wellness Moonshot, an awareness campaign for a world free of preventable disease that’s led by The Global Wellness Institute. Here’s our collection of reflections for the March 2021 theme of…