Self-Care as a Radical Act with Dr. Janet Taylor
Episode description
“When you move something from your unconscious to your conscious, it’s your responsibility to do something about it. Play in it, trudge through it, be uncomfortable in it, but try to come out with a more informed aspect of a belief that was false before.” - Dr. Janet Taylor
Dr. Janet Taylor is known as the “self-care doctor.” She knows the enormous benefits of modern medicine, but also sees the weaknesses of the modern medical model. When we have a model that doesn’t account for a holistic view of a person’s life and environment, we are missing so much of what they actually need to be well. Not only does the current model fail everyone through its narrowness, it fails Black people in particular with its entrenched racist ideas of Black bodies. The health of our communities demands a restructuring of how we think about care and health.
This week on Find Your Fierce & Loving, listen to the incredible insights on health and self-care from Dr. Taylor. She identifies the progress we’ve made in improving health, challenging conventions, and fighting racism, and lays out the path ahead.
- (03:32) - Resilience
- (09:45) - Self-care
- (15:34) - Medical racism
- (26:47) - Making the unconscious conscious
Dr. Janet Taylor is psychiatrist, self-care coach, entrepreneur, mother and lifestyle columnist, and has many coaching programs that are an integration of her years as a medical doctor, life coach, and mindfulness expert. She holds an M.D. from the University of Louisville, completed her psychiatric residency at New York Medical College and obtained an MPH from Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention. Her book The Courageous Classroom: Creating a Culture of Safety for Students to Learn and Thrive, written with Jed Dearybury, will be released this July.
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