About this episode

In this episode, Ash Perrow and Adam Walker discuss the journey from living on autopilot to embracing conscious choice through personal experiences and creative outlets.

What if the most important turning point in life is learning to move from autopilot to conscious choice? In this episode of Beyond Turning Points, Ash Perrow sits down with psychologist, musician, skateboarder and creator of the Breadcrumbs and Alarm Clocks framework, Adam Walker. Adam shares the turning points that shaped his life, from spending much of infancy in hospital and witnessing his grandfather die suddenly as a child, through to discovering skateboarding, coding and music as powerful pathways to agency, creativity and self-discovery. Together, Ash and Adam explore sovereignty, nervous systems, parts work, ADHD, creativity, parenting and the difference between living on autopilot and consciously choosing your path. At the heart of the conversation is a simple but profound question: How do we move from autopilot into sovereignty? In this episode we explore The early experiences that shaped Adam’s nervous system Witnessing his grandfather’s death at three years old Discovering skateboarding, coding and music as pathways to growth What sovereignty really means Moving beyond autopilot Internal Family Systems and parts work Why anxiety is often multiple signals happening at…

People in this episode

Host: Ash Perrow

Guest: Adam Walker

Topics covered

• self-discovery
• ADHD
• creativity
• sovereignty
• nervous system
• skateboarding
• parenting

Keywords

• autopilot
• sovereignty
• nervous system
• ADHD
• creativity
• skateboarding
• personal power
• resilience
• internal family systems
• anxiety

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Breadcrumbs and Alarm Clocks

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