Ways To Feel More Human

By Susannah Taylor

As a wellbeing writer of over 20 years, it is glaringly obvious to me that we are no longer living in alignment with who we are.

Obesity is at an all-time high, as is anxiety, depression and chronic ... more

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October 14, 2024 Rajesh Ramani - A monk’s guide to emotional and mental wellbeing in an overwhelming world
We are currently living through in a mental health crisis. According to the mental health charity Mind, nearly 2 million people are currently waiting for NHS services.
Mental Health First Aid England say that poor mental health accounts for more than half of all work-related illnesses, whilst Personnel Today say that work related stress is costing the economy £28 billion a year.
300,000 people with long term mental health problems fall out of work every year.
In a recent article for Mind, the Chief Executive Sarah Hughes says ‘The mental health system is at breaking point’.
So what are we to do? How do we and our overworked brains survive everything that is thrown at it today?
In this podcast I speak to banker-turned-monk Rajesh Ramani to discuss the simplest of techniques to help us survive both mentally and emotionally in an overwhelming world.
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This podcast is sponsored by:
www.bambooclothing.co.uk – Sustainable, fully
traceable, technical activewear made from natural and recycled fabrics

www.ancientandbrave.earth – award winning
blends and supplements for whole body health, daily

DISCLAIMER:
The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard
professional medical advice.
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48min
September 30, 2024 Lucinda Miller - Nourishing the young neurodivergent brain
In the past two decades there has been an enormous rise in the diagnosis of neurodiversity, especially in children.
Whilst we all have brilliant brains no matter what, neurodiversity can come with a host of different symptoms that can be extremely difficult to manage for the child but also their surrounding family and friends.
Lucinda Miller has dedicated her life to helping neurodivergent children and their families thrive.
Lucinda (who has been diagnosed with ADHD herself, as well as her husband) is a naturopath and functional medicine practitioner with a very well established company called NatureDoc who now have clinics dotted all over the
UK. From 25 years of treating thousands of neurodiverse children, she is an authority on helping children to manage
their symptoms through good nutrition and natural remedies.
On a daily basis Lucinda sees how evidence based nutrition and lifestyle changes can make a significant improvement to children’s lives. Her new book, Brain Brilliance brings together everything she has learnt to help neurodivergent children shine, and highlights the everyday challenges that many neurodivergent children face, rather than focusing on a specific labels or diagnoses.

This podcast is essential listening for any parent with a neurodivergent child. Lucinda highlights how good nutrition can help young brains to flourish no matter what diagnosis you are faced with.

Find me
Follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠⁠
Contact me: ⁠[email protected]⁠
Sign up to my newsletter The Glow Gazette at ⁠www.susannahtaylor.com

This podcast is sponsored by:
www.hellolingo.com – your personal metabolic
coach. A glucose monitor that teaches you to understand your metabolism
www.thisworks.com – clean, targeted skincare
and wellness solutions that work with your body clock

DISCLAIMER:
The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard
professional medical advice.
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1h 2min
September 16, 2024 James Dowler - Beyond the breathwork buzz
In recent years the world of breathwork has completely exploded, with some describing it as the ‘new Yoga.’
Breathing is life.
The first thing in life we do is take a breath, and
it’s the last thing we do in life too.
But whilst our breath is an automatic function in our bodies, it is true to say that in the modern world,
many of us are not breathing optimally and it’s something we have the power to change. Stress, life events and our environment call can change our breathing patterns.
But if we learn to breath properly, our mental and physical health can improve beyond all measure, our nervous systems can become regulated and it can even help us to live longer.
We take roughly 20,000 breaths a day, so it’s worth getting right. Right?
In this podcast I’m talking to expert breathwork coach James Dowler.
James talks to me about the world of breathwork and why it’s become so popular today. In particular we discuss the effects of breathing on our over worked nervous systems.
Worryingly however, the breathwork world is now awash with misinformation and incorrect teaching. So listen on for some breathwork truths and discover which practise will and won’t work for you.

Find me
Follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠⁠
Contact me: ⁠[email protected]⁠
Sign up to my newsletter The Glow Gazette at ⁠www.susannahtaylor.com
This podcast is sponsored by:
www.ancientandbrave.earth – award winning
blends and supplements for whole body health, daily
www.hellolingo.com – your personal metabolic
coach. A glucose monitor that teaches you to understand your metabolism

DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this
webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice,
diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified
healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.
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48min
September 02, 2024 Jack Savoretti – creativity in the modern world
Where would we be without musical creativity?
Without it there would be no Beatles, no Mozart, no country music, no rock ‘n’ roll, no concerts, no church choirs.
The ability to be creative is a big part of what has set us humans apart from machines.
But does the dawn of AI - where we can ask a computer to compose a song in seconds - mean the end of musical creativity as we know it?
Who better to speak to than singer/songwriter Jack Savoretti. Jack talks to me about how he found musical and poetic creativity during difficult times as a teenager. We chat about his creative process, how he can’t and never wants to read music and I ask him what he thinks the impact of AI will have on the music industry, creativity, and artists today.

Find me
Follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠⁠
Contact me: ⁠[email protected]⁠
Sign up to my newsletter The Glow Gazette at ⁠www.susannahtaylor.com

This podcast is sponsored by:
www.bambooclothing.co.uk – Sustainable, fully traceable, technical activewear made from natural and recycled fabrics
www.thisworks.com – clean, targeted skincare and wellness solutions that work with your body clock

DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.
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49min
August 19, 2024 Russell Foster - Syncing our circadian rhythms
Our modern world is disrupting our bodies’ natural circadian rhythms – our phones ping throughout the night, we don’t get enough daylight and we never allow ourselves to switch off.
But did you know that smooth running of our circadian rhythms is vital to protect us from disease?
Or that disruption of our sleep can drastically lower our immune system?
According to Russell Foster, Professor of Circadian Neuroscience at Oxford University around 70% of individuals with Alzheimers are reported to have disrupted and fragmented circadian rhythms.
In this podcast we are going to discuss why we need to respect our body’s natural rhythms to improve brain health, our metabolism and even our life expectancy and how today’s modern world is pushing us out of sync.
Russell also busts a few myths when it comes to light blocking glasses, whether melatonin pills work and whether I can become a ‘Lark’ instead of an ‘Owl.’
Find me
Follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠⁠
Contact me: ⁠[email protected]⁠
Sign up to my newsletter The Glow Gazette at ⁠www.susannahtaylor.com

This podcast is sponsored by:
www.hellolingo.com – your personal metabolic coach. A glucose monitor that teaches you to understand your metabolism and wellbeing

www.ancientandbrave.earth – award winning blends and supplements for whole body health that use sustainable pure ingredients
DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.
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51min
August 05, 2024Willow Crossley - The vital importance of everyday nature
Nature underpins our very existence. Our forests, rivers, oceans and soils provide us with the food we eat, the air we breathe and the water we need for our crops to grow. We have existed within nature since the beginning of time and yet in today’s highly technical, impeccably designed world we are quite divorced from it.
But we are beginning to realise the vital importance of incorporating nature into our lives.
In 2019 a study was published of 20,000 people by the University of Exeter where they found that people that spent two hours a week in green spaces were substantially more likely to report good health and psychological wellbeing than those that didn’t.
One person that fully appreciates the wonders of nature is florist and author Willow Crossley. In this podcast Willow chats to me about:
The restorative powers of nature, and how it helped her recover from postnatal depression

The importance of using our hands and getting offline (Willow talks about why walks twice a day are a non-negotiable for her)

Willow’s experience of burnout and how we can stop ourselves getting to that space

How to incorporate nature into our lives even if we live in a city

Why she and I can’t cope with too much tech - spreadsheets, reading on screens and phones

Find me
Follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠⁠
Contact me: ⁠[email protected]⁠
Sign up to my newsletter The Glow Gazette at www.susannahtaylor.com

This podcast is sponsored by:
www.thisworks.com – clean, targeted skincare and wellness solutions that work with your body clock
www.bambooclothing.co.uk – Sustainable, fully traceable, technical activewear made from natural and recycled fabrics

DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.
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45min
July 22, 2024 Melissa Hemsley – How to un-process your diet
Ultra processed foods are making us ill. Author and healthy chef Melissa Hemsley is on a mission to make healthy cooking from scratch easy and enjoyable for all of us.
In the UK we have the record for consuming the highest amount of ultra processed foods (UPF’s) in Europe. In fact in the UK, on average, 56% of our diets are UPF heavy. For the under 14 age bracket that rises to 67%.
Packed with chemicals our bodies don’t recognise, there is now concrete and rapidly growing evidence that ultra processed foods are making us very sick indeed. A recent review in the British Medical Journal showed that diets high in UPF’s are directly associated with poor mental, respiratory, cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, and metabolic health.
In this podcast I’m chatting to the brilliant chef and author Melissa Hemsley whose new cookbook Real Healthy tackles the timely message of how to un-process our diets.
Her wonderful book is crammed with advice and tips and hundreds of recipes for making healthy, delicious foods easily, whilst we also tackle the topic of the major changes we ALL need to make in the way we eat today.

Find me
Follow me on Instagram ⁠⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠⁠
Contact me: ⁠[email protected]⁠
Sign up to my newsletter The Glow Gazette at ⁠www.susannahtaylor.com
This podcast is sponsored by
www.ancientandbrave.earth – award winning blends and supplements for whole body health that use sustainable pure ingredients
www.hellolingo.com – your personal metabolic coach. A glucose monitor that teaches you to understand your metabolism and wellbeing.
DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.
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44min
July 08, 2024 Jillian Lavender - Why meditation is more relevant now than ever
Why Vedic meditation can boost your mood, reduce anxiety, improve sleep, and help you live longer
Did you know the average person spends 82 hours per week consuming information?
Or that we take in almost 90 times more information today than we did in 1940?
We are currently living through a mental health crisis and it is vital we find a way to switch off from all the noise, and
release stress.

In this first episode of Ways to Feel More Human, I speak to Jillian Lavender who runs the London Meditation Centre and the New York Meditation Centre with her husband, Michael.
Jillian has been teaching meditation for 21 years and in this conversation I speak to her about her own journey into Vedic meditation and how it changed her life when she was working in a very stressful publishing job.

Jillian speaks about what Vedic meditation is, how it differentiates from other types of meditation, why and how it works, the effects it has not just on the mind but the body too, and how it can help increase longevity. Jillian also talks about why meditation is not mindfulness.

Find out more about
Jillian’s courses www.londonmeditationcentre.com
Thank you to my very brilliant sponsors for this episode:
⁠
⁠www.bambooclothing.co.uk⁠
– Sustainable, fully traceable, technical activewear made from natural and recycled fabrics
www.thisworks.com
– clean, targeted skincare and wellness solutions that work with your body clock

Follow me on Instagram ⁠@susannahtaylor_⁠
Contact me: ⁠[email protected]⁠
Sign up to my newsletter ⁠The Glow Gazette⁠

DISCLAIMER: The content of this podcast and on this webpage is not intended to be a substitute for professional medical advice, diagnosis or treatment.
Always seek the advice of your doctor or qualified healthcare provider and never disregard professional medical advice.
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50min
July 01, 2024 The ‘what’ and ‘why’ behind Ways to Feel More Human
WAYS TO FEEL MORE HUMAN, is a new podcast about returning to the wonder of you.
I’m Susannah Taylor and I have been a wellbeing writer of over 20 years and what is most obvious to me is that we are no longer living in alignment with who we are.
Over the last 10 years the wellness world has exploded. If the latest figures are anything to go by it is worth £2.8 trillion worldwide. Yet we are not getting healthier. In fact, the opposite appears to be happening.
Obesity, anxiety, depression and chronic disease are at an all-time high and escalating fast and it seems we have completely deviated off our human path: we spend less and less time in nature; we eat highly processed foods, we communicate through screens, we barely move and we are lonelier than ever before.
In a world dominated by tech and now AI, we are at a pivotal point in the history of humankind where we must stop and re-evaluate how we live. The good news is that everything we need to thrive today is already here, right now, inside of us - neither the phone, Instagram, or a high speed laptop have come close to the wonder of us. And so I am embarking on a podcast journey into discovering what really makes us, as human beings, thrive, both physically, mentally, creatively, socially and spiritually, and how we can do more of it and weave it into our busy lives.
I’ll be speaking to some of the world’s most knowledgeable and inspiring thought leaders to discuss everything we need to thrive from wellbeing to creativity, lifestyle to spirituality, self-care to nature therapy and human connection. There’ll be experts in everything from breathwork to brain health, movement to mindfulness, nutrition to neuroscience.
It is, essentially, a celebration of being human.

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9min
May 20, 2024 Ways To Feel More Human - available now
Welcome to WAYS TO FEEL MORE HUMAN, a new podcast about how to thrive in a frazzled world by Susannah Taylor.
I have been a wellbeing writer of over 20 years and it is glaringly obvious to me that we are no longer living in alignment with who we are.
Obesity, anxiety, depression and chronic disease are at an all time high and it is clear to me that we have completely deviated off our human path. We spend less and less time in nature; we eat unnatural, highly processed food; we work 24/7 staring at screens; we sit down all day hunched over laptops; we are lonelier than ever; we barely move; we rarely use our hands, and we don’t allow the sun to warm our skin.
Amidst an overwhelm of digital and the dawn of AI, we are at a pivotal point in the history of mankind where we must stop and re-evaluate how we are living our lives.
It is my mission to help us reconnect with what our bodies and minds do best and to honour this unbelievable feat of engineering called the human body.
I will be speaking to some of the world’s most knowledgeable and inspiring thought leaders from anthropologists to neuroscientists, doctors to evolutionary biologists, Buddhists to priests, yogis to psychologists, creatives to wellness coaches (some names you will know, others you won’t.)
My aim? To help us rethink the way we currently live, to reconnect our natural wiring and to stop us from
losing the plot amidst the tech jungle that’s currently frying our brains.
This podcast will convince you that you are way more important than any AI robot, smartphone or screen could ever be.
It is, essentially, a celebration of being human.

Follow me on Instagram @susannahtaylor_
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FAQs about Ways To Feel More Human:

How many episodes does Ways To Feel More Human have?

The podcast currently has 10 episodes available.