The Stress Coach: Recent Episodes
John Whinnery
These biweekly podcasts will look at various aspects of Mental Health, discussing their origins and the management strategies used to alleviate them.
In this short episode we look at how "Reframing" our experiences of stress, anxiety or depression can have a positive affect on our physical health and how the story of the negative effects of Stress on the physical body doesn't need to be the truth for us.
In this episode I offer some skill that I have used to manage my own anxiety and skills that I'm sure will help you to reduce if not remove yours. These skills are very simple to implement and can be used anywhere, any time, in any situation, I urge you to try them for a week, a fortnight, a month and let me know how you found them to work for you.
In this episode I look at Anger, how it manifests, its affects on the individual and others both in terms of physical and mental health and how to cope with anger.
In this episode I review and article from author Lizzie Broadheath, Occupational Psychologist & Corporate Trainer. The article looks at the psychological implications for Team cohesion and wellbeing as a result of virtual working in the covid 19 era and suggests some strategies that managers could use to ensure the psychological safety of their teams and themselves.
In this episode I introduce the background to my meditation practices, from my early days as a karate practitioner. I also guide the listeners through a short 10 minute breathing meditation.
This episode gives listener's a brief overview of where I come from interms of my background both professionally and academicly, and my own mental health journey. I hope you enjoy it.
This short podcast looks at the issue of dealing with mental illhealth, about talking rather than holding in our mental health issues and our daily problems and offers some insight into how we can manage them.
This is a short 2 minute reflection on anxiety and depression. This was the result of a thought prompted by a Facebook post that jolted me into a writing spree, I hope you like it.
This short podcast looks at the effects of lockdown on loneliness and some strategies that can be implemented to reduce the effects of common mental health conditions such as Stress, Anxiety, Depression, Substance Abuse and Suicidal ideation.