Welcome to The UNBroken Podcast!

This is a call to action to create a different direction, dialogue and narrative for you. Challenging existing thoughts and smashing down barriers. Human beings are not parts they are wholes. Think about that. Each human system dependent on the others. The UNBroken Podcast brings it all together to transform lives and improve wholescale human performance.

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Dr Rachel Taylor heads the UNBroken movement & believes that the world needs people like YOU!
 • People who are different
 • People who can think
 • People who are UNBroken

Visit https://un-broken.me/ for more information or email drrachel@drracheltaylor.co.uk

Dr Rachel explains why she hates the ‘be kind’ movement and why we all need to practice a kindness habit daily. Find out what neurotransmitters underpin kindness, what you need to do to get them firing in your brain today and every day, how your environment can limit your ability to be kind and how you can use acts of kindness to be your best always. Discover how kindness is underpinned by a mechanism that is imperative for our wellness and wellbeing. Spoiler alert, it is not about how many likes you get on your social media posts!

Key Insights From This Episode:

• I think kindness is actually lost in translation

• If we are not used to being kind to ourselves, and this is going to be quite unfamiliar territory to us. 
• The one thing that I want you to take away from this is that kindness isn't anything to do with social media, mainstream media, what you do to others. 
• Be kind is how we can be the best human beings, having the best experience in the most supportive environment that we can create.
• Let's start the kindness focus so that it will become habitually yours, what you need to do to feel good about yourself, what you need to do to be kind to yourself, what you need to do to enable your body to work in the optimal way in your environment.
• As long as you are being kind to yourself, being honest about what you need, not what you want, then you will be moving forward. 
• When indulgence turns into a habit, then we can see that it can be quite destructive. 
• We need to start putting things in place, taking responsibility, having self-autonomy, to be able to be kind to ourselves. 
• The kinder we are to ourselves and the better place we are to be able to move away from self-destructive behaviour, from being imposed upon by everybody else's needs coming first and not own. 
• Just laughing can generate an anti-aging hormone that's actually going to protect us and be part of the kindness formula.

Keywords: kindness, hormones, oxytocin, seretonin, connection, laughter, wellness

About Our Host

Dr Rachel Taylor

drrachel@drracheltaylor.co.uk 

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 

https://un-broken.me/ 

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.

In this week’s episode of UnBroken, Dr Rachel gives you a framework for acceptance, which is the ultimate key to all transformation. Choosing self-acceptance can free up massive amounts of energy that can be caught up in the futility of comparison, less-thanism and constant critique. This episode raises some interesting questions that you can ask yourself to begin the process of self-reflection, to see where you can increase your levels of self-acceptance, and how to shake off the shackles of perfectionism and ‘fitting in’ which keep you playing small. 

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Key Insights From This Episode

• Acceptance is not a passive situation, acceptance is actually quite active. 
• Once we start to actively embrace everything that is going on, and to view it through objective eyes, we can actually start seeing what could be the cause of our discomfort.
• Let's start being honest about how we feel about ourselves. Are we basing our acceptance of self on comments that were made when we were children?
• What is acceptable is denoted to us within a set of often unwritten rules that we all adhere to, because this is how we've lived. This is what we've been told since before we've even had awareness.
• Look at what you were exposing your senses to. Is it toxic or is it a tonic? 
• We need to start actually observing ourselves and start really loving difference.  Difference is so important. Difference is what brings innovation and creativity.
• There's nothing as interesting as hearing somebody else's opinion that you've never even considered before.
• Human beings need human beings. We need to connect.
• It's pretty difficult to make choices when you have a restricted internal world. When you have a narrow viewpoint of what life is. 
• Once we start to actively embrace acceptance, once we stop comparing and start celebrating, understand the conditioning, start to make the connections, then we start to have very different choices. 
• We might behave in a certain way, but we are not our behaviours. We are so much more than that.

Keywords: acceptance, comparison, compassion, difference, connection, conditioning, awareness, choices

About Our Host

Dr Rachel Taylor

drrachel@drracheltaylor.co.uk 

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 

https://un-broken.me/ 

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.

This episode is dedicated to all the ‘differents’ in life, wherever they may be. The world needs different for innovation and creation, discover what has worked for one man who discovered is difference makes a huge difference.

This episode features a Q and A exploring all things wonderful and neurodiverse with Kofi Ayivor. Being different is hard enough but being neurodiverse in a neurotypical world is another level of difficulty. Listen to how you can find what works for Kofi and could be useful for you in navigating the beauty of difference against the backdrop of normalcy. With laughter, fun and lots of talk of food as medicine.

Key Insights From This Episode:

• I'm in awe of what you've just said, Kofi around human's greatest asset, because probably about 20 - 30 years ago it would not be thought of that somebody who had an atypical brain would actually even understand what empathy was. - Dr Rachel

• In order to gain a better life, we often have to lose something. We need to go through a grieving process. - Dr Rachel
• And the more I accept myself, the more I like myself. It's interesting. Because the more you tend to like yourself, it’s because you're accepting who you are. - Kofi
• The one thing I say to people don't tend to do, and I was guilty of this before, we tend not to be present in the moment. We tend to either live in the past or live in what we want to be in the future, but we never live in moment. - Kofi
• A key part of the process for me when helping anybody to be who they truly are, is for them to embrace of awe, wonder, magic and play, because these are the things make the human life wondrous really. - Dr Rachel
• An old man said to me before… we have a tendency to make ourselves small, so that we don't expose our greatness. Because we are too busy worrying about whether we're going to piss somebody off. - Kofi
• I work hard to play hard, and if I can't play, I can't recharge. And if I'm not recharging just means I'm just working. - Kofi

Keywords: neurodiversity, neurodivergence, difference, autism, ADHD, dyslexia

About Our Guests:

Kofi is a finance professional and an outstanding legal graduate with a strong career foundation in a statutory dispute resolution service dealing with FCA regulated firms, in addition to experience working in legal organisations. At his core he’s a passionate and enthusiastic people person and a keen advocate of fairness in society and doing the right thing in work and my life.

Kofi describes himself as a motivator, moderator and connector as well as being a mean chef! Kofi is neurodiverse, and has dyslexia. 

About Our Host

Dr Rachel Taylor

drrachel@drracheltaylor.co.uk 

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 

https://un-broken.me/ 

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.

Join us for an entertaining and enlightening tour of what has been the most enlightening parts of the process for those amazing people striving to be (UN)Broken, living their lives authentically, magnificently and totally unapologetically.

Starting with some tips of what collectively have helped the (UN)Broken tribe members the most in their unique, individual and bespoke journeys of awareness, acceptance and amazement. It is a common trait when feeling broken to feel that we are not as human as the next person, not the same, however this episode seeks to break that taboo and show how human we all are and our paths may be different but in essence we all have the same fears, un-comfortability and worries.

Key Insights From This Episode:

• The only person that we have control over is ourselves.

• I encourage people to actually start to cultivate the art of resting because we don't get enough.
• I tell people that doing nothing is doing something. We never, ever are actually doing nothing.
• The brain doesn't differentiate between good or bad. It doesn't. And it also doesn't differentiate between true and not true. The brain is not any kind of referee over things. Its job is just to keep us alive.
• It takes at least eight weeks for a new neural pathway to start developing in the brain. Eight weeks, 56 days.
• They have experienced the battle between “now is okay, and I'm going to give okay up for what is in the future, which I don't even know what that is”. The uncertainty of it all. I have to live with the anxiety, I have to live with these unfamiliar feelings to something that isn't really even that tangible anymore.
• Learn how to say no to anything that doesn't feel right. That doesn't seem right. That doesn't sound right. That doesn't make you feel right. Learn how to say no.

Keywords: self-help, rest, processing, uncertainty, emotions, support

About Our Host

Dr Rachel Taylor

drrachel@drracheltaylor.co.uk 

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 

https://un-broken.me/ 

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.

It 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

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• Instagram 
• Email manpreetaujla@hotmail.com  

‘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

drrachel@drracheltaylor.co.uk 

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 

https://un-broken.me/ 

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.

Dr Rachel talks about her observations on why the environment is encouraging a lack of critical thought and encouraging more stupidity. In this episode, listen to a considered argument on why there is a pandemic of stupid right now, why many are full of fear and anxiety for the wrong reason and what everyone really should be fearful of. A trip around fear, uncertainty and doubt plus why we all need to realise what is a marketing campaign and what is the truth.

Key Insights From This Episode:

• I see a sincere lack of critical thinking around me all the time at the moment.

• We continually are marketed and convinced that we need temporary distractions from the pain that's targeted with our limbic system.
• The majority of the time we make a decision unconsciously, and then we build a conscious argument to support that decision. Or we just act on the decision without even being aware of what's happening.
• Our brains are being conditioned into quick hit dopamine where we are dependent on how many people like what we say, how many people respond to our posts, how many people acknowledge our existence.
• We are being manipulated into having opinions, into seeing information, into basing our worth and what other people think of us in the online setting. If that's not stupid, I don't know what is.

Keywords: social media, pandemic, critical thinking, emotional responses

About Our Host

Dr Rachel Taylor

drrachel@drracheltaylor.co.uk 

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 

https://un-broken.me/ 

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.