Recovery Is A Super Power? Awesome Mental Health Recovery- with Manny Aujla
Release Date: 12/14/2021
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info_outlineIt is not ok to not be ok. Remember that. Mental Health recovery is a lifelong endeavour and the moment we think it ok to not be ok then we are not focusing on what matters in mental health. This episode celebrates mental health recovery and has a truly awesome insight.
Join Dr Rachel for this Q&A to discover why recovery in mental health matters. This episode gives some truly awesome moments of insight into what works in mental health recovery, as well as claiming ownership and intellectual property over journals of kindness. Manny is a truly inspiring and gritty individual who has a great story to tell and who is someone that has overcome much adversity to become a great mental health first aider and mentor. Remember it is NOT ok to be not ok.
Key Insights From This Episode:
- Some of the most successful people are successful because they make a decision in a second, but they know that no matter what the decision is, it can sort out what goes wrong after it. - Dr Rachel
- Feeling there was no way, feeling very claustrophobic and trapped. I’d liken it to being in a dark tunnel without being able to see the way out. I know a lot of people use that analogy with depression. - Manny
- One of the main things that we contend with today, because it's around us all the time, is that that comparison. And worse than comparison is judgment, and worse than judgment is self-judgment. - Dr Rachel
- I try and realise when I’m not showing kindness. I can see it sometimes when I do gratitude journalling and at the end of the day I keep a diary, so I can see that the days when I'm not being kind to myself and I can spot it now when I never could before. - Manny
Keywords: recovery, mental health, kindness, compassion, self care
About Our Guests:
Manny Aujla
‘I thoroughly enjoyed being a guest on The (UN)Broken Podcast. Rach instantly made me feel at ease and comfortable enough to share my experiences – the conversation flowed very naturally and it was like having a chat with a good friend.’
About Our Host
Dr Rachel Taylor
Dr Rachel Taylor is a neuroscientist with decades of experience exploring, discovering and solving everyday challenges faced by many, as well as listening to and telling the stories of people she comes across in her endeavour to show difference is good, trauma is endemic and joy is connection. She started UnBroken as she wanted to highlight that the system is broken not people and uses the UnBroken podcast to share her learnings, honest conversations and words of wisdom with the UnBroken Tribe of listener.
About UnBroken
UnBroken is founded upon the belief that the environment in which we were born, grew in, live in, work in, play in and rest in has a huge impact on how well we believe we are and how well we perform. Wellbeing and optimal human performance are not simply about the absence of disease, they are about the ability to live purposefully, intentionally, joyfully and freely.
UnBroken provides a range of supportive online resources including a podcast, blog, apothecary and monthly online membership for people who dare to be different, are open to possibilities and want a different pathway to their own version of success.