What does emotional health mean to you?
Emotionally Speaking is a podcast focused on finding strategies for living an emotionally healthy life.
Peter Leonard, the Chief Executive of the Centre for Emotional Health asks a range of guests to describe a particular challenge they have faced and to share their coping mechanisms for emotionally challenging experiences - anxiety, stage fright, loneliness, addiction, fatigue, family difficulties and clinical depression.
Their challenges could be ongoing, or in the distant past. Each guest talks reflectively about its impact. As the podcast grows, the emotional toolkit gets bigger with suggestions and advice that might work for you.
Emotional health is related to but different from mental health. Good emotional health can help you manage periods of poor mental health as well as the ups and down of everyday life. So, if you’re interested in living a more emotionally healthy life or want to know more about coping in difficult times, Emotionally Speaking will help you understand your emotions, how you relate to your emotional self, and other people.
Presented by Peter Leonard, Chief Executive of the Centre for Emotional Health
Produced by Freya Hellier and Alexandra Quinn for Loftus Media
With support from Sally Alden at the Centre for Emotional Health
Get in touch: hello@emotionalhealth.org.uk
Visit our website: www.emotionalhealth.org.uk
Social media handle: @CentreforEH
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What does emotional health mean to you?
Emotionally Speaking is a podcast focused on finding strategies for living an emotionally healthy life.
Peter Leonard, the Chief Executive of the Centre for Emotional Health asks a range of guests to describe a particular challenge they have faced and to share their coping mechanisms for emotionally challenging experiences - anxiety, stage fright, loneliness, addiction, fatigue, family difficulties and clinical depression.
Their challenges could be ongoing, or in the distant past. Each guest talks reflectively about its impact. As the podcast grows, the emotional toolkit gets bigger with suggestions and advice that might work for you.
Emotional health is related to but different from mental health. Good emotional health can help you manage periods of poor mental health as well as the ups and down of everyday life. So, if you’re interested in living a more emotionally healthy life or want to know more about coping in difficult times, Emotionally Speaking will help you understand your emotions, how you relate to your emotional self, and other people.
Presented by Peter Leonard, Chief Executive of the Centre for Emotional Health
Produced by Freya Hellier and Alexandra Quinn for Loftus Media
With support from Sally Alden at the Centre for Emotional Health
Get in touch: hello@emotionalhealth.org.uk
Visit our website: www.emotionalhealth.org.uk
Social media handle: @CentreforEH
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Comedian, presenter, writer and campaigner Ruby Wax has been very public about her mental health. Her most recent book “I’m Not As Well As I Thought I Was” (2023) details a severe breakdown which, after 12 years of good health, she didn’t see coming. In the book Ruby sets off on a series of journeys to try and find “inner peace” including a 30-day silent retreat, swimming with whales, visiting a refugee camp and staying at a Christian monastery. It’s during one of these trips that she suddenly realises she needs help and she describes what it was like being admitted to a mental health institution for treatment.
In a frank discussion with Peter Leonard, Ruby discusses the depths of her depression and recovery. She explains why using this very personal experience in her writing and performance is an important part of her mental health awareness campaigning.
Ruby set up the charity Frazzled Cafe 7 years ago. It’s an online support group where anyone can talk in a safe, non-judgemental space about their emotional and mental health and how they’re really feeling. She believes that to be heard is half the cure.
You can find out more information at frazzledcafe.org
*This episode contains strong language and explores what it’s like to live with a mental health disease.
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