Emotionally Speaking
By The Centre for Emotional Health
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: [email protected]
Visit our website: www.emotionalhealth.org.uk
Social media handle: @CentreforEH
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Latest episode
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Ep 10. Andrew Kauffmann - breaking family cycles to grow identity, strength and love
Writer and coach Andrew Kauffmann was raised in a loving family, but as a young, gay man in the early 90s, he struggled with self-acceptance and his mental health. He sought the approval of his dad, but felt like he could never quite measure up. … -
Ep9. Imam Monawar Hussain - talk, laugh and value your friends
Imam Monawar Hussain was the first Muslim chaplain for the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust working across four major hospitals. He was also the first Muslim Faith Tutor at Eton College. During the coronavirus pandemic Monawar found the trick… -
Ep8. Lisa Potts - surviving a horrific machete attack and learning to “make your mind your friend”
In July 1996, a man wielding a machete ran into a playground in Wolverhampton. 21-year old nursery teacher Lisa Potts was seriously injured when she put herself between the children in her care and her attacker. Her life changed in an instant. -
Ep7. Ruby Wax - telling the world about your mental health breakdown
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 comi… -
Ep6. Series 2 is coming!
Series 2 of Emotionally Speaking is on its way. This is the podcast about the ways we can live a more emotionally healthy life. We’re so pleased that the conversations in series 1 have resonated with you. Subscribe to the podcast to hear mor… -
Ep5. Ben Gernon - emotional stumbling blocks and learning to deal with anxiety
Conductor and broadcaster Ben Gernon remembers a significant moment aged 21 when he had a panic attack in the middle of a performance. He tells Peter Leonard about learning to deal with anxiety and how opening up about it stops it getting ‘… -
Ep4. Alasdair Gill - a journey of addiction, recovery and sobriety
Chef and writer Alasdair Gill speaks frankly to Peter Leonard about his experiences of addiction and sobriety. He explains what it’s like to put recovery at the centre of his life and how appreciating the daily, little pockets of goodness and gratitu… -
Ep3. Virginia Ironside – why I wrote A Huge Bag of Worries
In this episode the journalist, writer and agony aunt Virginia Ironside talks about questioning negative thoughts. She tells Peter Leonard about the lessons she’s learnt from working as a young music journalist in an intimidating industry, to ‘detach… -
Ep2. Satish Kumar - find peace in nature and use this to strengthen your emotional health
In this episode Satish speaks of his love of nature, his two and a half year walk around the world for peace, and his childhood experience of being a Jain monk and what he has learnt as an activist and campaigner for peace during his eighty plus year… -
Ep1. Kate Garraway - my emotional health toolkit
Welcome to the first episode of our new podcast Emotionally Speaking. Listen to GMB host and Smooth radio presenter Kate Garraway, as she speaks movingly about the difficulties of her husband’s severe long covid and her own ways of finding something …
