How to Win at Mental Health

A Conversation About How to Conquer Depression with a Full-on Effort

Dealing with depression and anxiety?  Who is winning, you or them?  What if you had a playbook full of healing, coping, and life-giving strategies at the ready?  Would you feel more supported, more hopeful?  

Guest Bio:
Zack S. Rutledge is an ACE Certified Personal Trainer, an ACE Certified Fitness Nutrition Specialist, and a Certified Brain Health Trainer through the Functional Aging Institute. He has a black belt in karate, has practiced yoga for almost a decade, and has played in punk bands for years. He holds an MA from American University in Washington, D.C. and is currently pursuing a Clinical Psychology degree.

Zack is the author of The Official Depression Relief Playbook: Real-Life Strategies From a Guy Who Has Lived It.
He shares with us how depression and anxiety, triggered by grief, sent him spiraling downward as a young adult and how he created a playbook full of winning strategies to take on his mental health challenges from every angle. 

Stay tuned to find out how you can defeat your demons with Zack’s D-Day approach. Enjoy this uplifting, laughter-filled conversation and pick up a new perspective that might just change everything for the better.  

We do talk a little about the tough stuff of depression, - nothing graphic, but take care of yourself.  If you feel things come up for you, reach out and get help, whether that’s a friend, a professional counsellor, or a help line, like National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 
800-273-8255.

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Music Credits: 
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SHOW NOTES:
Key Takeaways: 

• How to adapt to Covid and other life changes by listening to your gut
• How to tell the difference between grief and depression
• How to use the D-day approach to conquer depression

Do a Science:

•  Practice Box Breathing

 ​Zack’s Content 

• The Official Depression Relief Playbook​

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• Episode 85 How to be a Victor, not a Victim with Fatima Oliver. 
• Episode 76 How to be 88% Happy with Dr. Marissa Pei 

Take a Deeper ​Dive on the Topic: 

•  Myers Briggs Test
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  • Take the official version (paid)
  • Take a free version - 16 Personalities
• Atul Gawande’s The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right