287: Solo: How I Work Towards a Healthy and Happy Mind and Body

Conversations with Cam

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Motherhood, Cameronrogers, Freckledfoodie, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Nutrition, Parenting

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In this solo episode, I unpack my mental health trajectory from childhood to now, and how I’ve moved through several different cycles of anxiety, depression, and postpartum journeys. I share what it was like growing up in a high-anxiety household, how anxiety became my baseline throughout college and into my working life, and how I was often rewarded for my high-performance anxiety. I talk about how a post-concussion doctor’s appointment made me understand my anxiety differently, how I began taking anxiety medication, and what my medication experience has looked like for both pregnancies. I also share my experiences with postpartum anxiety and depression, intrusive thoughts, and ADHD, how I moved through these stages of my mental health, and what my mental health looks like right now, from non-negotiables throughout my day; to what I’m currently striving for towards a healthy, happy mind and body.

Key Takeaway / Points:

On growing up in an anxious household
On being rewarded for high-performance anxiety
How I moved through my anti-anxiety medication journey
On going on Sertraline while pregnant
On dealing with postpartum anxiety, intrusive thoughts and PTSD from my former head trauma
On experiencing my second pregnancy and how my mental health was different
On my decision to finally go on ADHD medication
My non-negotiables for prioritizing my mental health
My current challenge with tending to all my buckets

Listen to my conversation about maternal mental health and ADHD with Dr. Sarah Oreck here

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Transcript

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.3	Welcome back to another solo episode.
0:07.4	I was thinking as I was like prepping for this.
0:10.5	I was like, okay, I want to try and do a solo episode a month, but I'm really trying to be
0:14.3	more intentional with the solos.
0:16.8	So I want there to be a specific topic that like I'm diving deeper into so that I can really, honestly, for me, the reason I do this is because when I get questions on certain things, it's easier for me to be like, oh here, this episode is exactly that. Or I talked about it in XYZ because that just feels more tangible to digest in my opinion as a listener and consumer. And then mainly as a creator,
0:40.2	it's helpful to be like, oh, I know I talked about in this episode. So mental health is obviously
0:44.1	a large pillar of my business and my content and everything I do. And I feel like we haven't done a
0:51.3	personal, like, deep dive in a while. And I do feel like I'm in a good
0:57.3	place right now as we're speaking about this. Obviously, your mental health can shift every day,
1:03.7	every hour. However, I do feel like with time, whether it be with age or experience or
1:10.6	different life opportunities, I have tested out
1:15.0	an array of things and figured out what really has helped me and worked for me. So we're going to go
1:21.7	in to that where I stand right now with my mental health, history. We're going to get into
1:27.3	medication. We're going to get into medication.
1:28.2	We're going to do the whole shebang. So this is the mental health episode. And you know what?
1:34.0	My psychic, I'm going to see if this makes it to the title. I'm not sure. And yes, I have a psychic.
1:38.2	The last time we met, we were talking about like the wording of things. Honestly, she was just
1:42.7	saying these random things to me.
1:44.4	And I'm like writing everything down in a note so I can reference it later and like see
1:48.4	what comes true and all that.
1:50.0	And she was like, I want you to shift the wording around mental health to how I work
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