The Adventures of Self Podcast

A Self-Care Adventure - A Personal Masterclass from Taylor Roark

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This week's adventure is taken with the host of The Adventures of Self Podcast, Taylor Roark himself who reflects on the first 25 episodes of the podcast and to look ahead to what lies in the future of the podcast.

Taylor has suffered from depression at various points in his life and the last couple of episodes have made him aware that it’s an important topic to talk about. So, he shares various ways that have helped him deal with his depression in the hope that perhaps it can help listeners with their own struggles.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

  • There are 10 steps that I use to treat my depression, they may not help you, but they could. These include: seeking help, taking medication, reading self-help books, self-care, breathing techniques, interact and observe the natural world around you, observe children and how they act, create small goals to work towards and acknowledge them when you accomplish them, do something physical like exercise, try something new especially if it’s social
  • Mental challenges affect everyone in their lives, it’s not a disease that afflicts people that aren’t able to cope with life.
  • Medication was a stepping-stone for a period of my life and got me to the point where I could deal with things on my own, but they weren’t a long term fix for me.
  • Putting a good diet in place is important, but this is something you need to work out for yourself as we all require and react differently with certain foods in unique ways.
  • We’re so inundated with media and sensation from computers, mobile phones and TV, it’s incessant. If we become a slave to it it’s not useful. Go for a walk and notice nature and what it does with what it’s given, not to understand it, just to observe it.

    • BEST MOMENTS

    ‘I wasn’t particularly happy as a teenager and when I graduated from college I didn’t have any direction or sense of what I wanted to do. So I delivered pizza, which was a great use of a four-year degree!’

    ‘I was drinking a bottle of vodka a night to stop the pain. I knew it wasn’t right, but it felt like the way to stop whatever pain I was going through.’

    ‘The first step I took was asking for help. There still is a stigma attached to depression, but mental health and well-being is more recognised as important for everyone.’

    ‘Serotonin is depleted during depression. Medication can help with that initially. But after a while it made me feel fuzzy’

    ‘Everybody is individual, so unless someone knows you and have worked with you, self-help books don’t know what you’re going through, they deal with statistics. So, be wary of that.’

    ‘A master-craftsman needs to take steps from apprenticeship for a number of years before becoming a journeyman where they practice their craft while still learning before becoming a master and then a mentor where they begin to share their wisdom on whatever subject. This applies to life too.’

    ‘Breathing is the simplest way of dealing with sadness and depression, because we can concentrate on it and that gives us space and a moment to literally take a breath.’

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    ABOUT THE HOST

    Taylor Roark is the founder of Galliant Trainings, which guides and facilitates individuals and organisations in Creative Purpose.

    He has worked variously as a school bus driver, a blacksmith, a Wall Street lawyer and a developer of offshore wind farms. He has lived on 3 continents, travelled to more than 50 countries and currently resides in London, England.

    Taylor is a keen cyclist, an amateur photographer, an alchemical writer, a weekend DJ and a Taoist at heart. He chooses to live life as a mythical adventure.

    “The adventure you seek in life is yourself!”

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