Sanctus Podcast On Mental Health

In an incredible and eye opening conversation for our penultimate episode of the year, James and Ben chat with Ross Taylor about dealing with a traumatic ski trip from his past.

We’ve been hearing about climate change for decades but recently it’s come to our attention that it’s affecting us in more ways than just the environmental impact. So, we thought we’d take a slightly different angle and focus on how it’s affecting us and not the planet.

Mark Bisson, Sanctus Coach and author of the children's book 'George: The Cat Who Lost His Confidence', talks about the story behind his book that led to a realisation that the latest generation, Generation Alpha, is potentially heading for a future of disconnection, anxiety and depression as well as his personal experience being a parent and grandfather.

Our body can’t tell the difference between a sabre tooth tiger and an oncoming deadline, so how else can we learn from it to tell us about the anxiety we’re feeling and what it means?

What’s the bigger picture behind procrastination and how it’s impacting your mental health? James chats with creatives Scott & Valentina about their experiences around avoiding the bigger picture.

Nights out are engrained in our culture and is one of the main ways our country finds connection with one another - however they achieve that. But is going ‘out out’ doing us more harm than good?

James and Sophie sit down to talk through Sanctus coach Kevin’s lifelong journey where almost every event, from his career to coming out, was underpinned by social anxiety.

With Sanctus based in the heart of one of the loneliest cities in the world, it begs the question - why are we feeling so lonely?

One of the biggest challenges we face as a society is the rising statistics around suicide, James chats to Sanctus coach Helen McMillan and one of the founders of 'Mike's Mates', Amanda Scott.

It’s getting a tad steamy as we open up the conversation on how sex and sexuality play into our mental health.

Sanctus Coach Agnieszka Walczuk chats about how she has dealt with a range of body image issues in her life and how she has come to embrace a new attitude.

Whether you’re thinking of taking a break from booze or you’re battling a hard addiction, George & James welcome on Brad McCaw to talk about his experiences being an alcoholic, what he has learnt about himself going into recovery and how you can recognise and deal with your own addictions.

Recently, we announced for our fiftieth episode we were going to have a few Sanctus coaching sessions on the podcast itself. But it didn’t go exactly as planned. James and George have a catch-up and explore what happened and why it was harder than we thought.

Despite our careers being one of the most impactful elements of our life, in regards to our mental health, do you ever really take into consideration when looking for a new job, finding out what you want to do or judging whether a workplace is right for you? George chats with Sanctus head coach Ben and Head of Operations Vic Lloyd about their journeys into finding a suitable, mentally healthy career.

Everybody knows having a child can be one of the hardest yet most rewarding things you can do, but how can pregnancy and leaving the workplace impact your mental health? George chats with Leonie Moreton (currently pregnant for the second time) and coach (and new mother), Victoria Smith-Murphy in one of our most honestly refreshing episodes so far.

Comedy and mental health. What’s the connection? George speaks with founder of Com4Com, Willy Kosovich, to chat through his own experience at how trying stand-up at ‘That’s Mental!’ worked for him whilst trying to open up your (yes, you) mind to trying something bold for your own mental health.

James chats with singer Kalon Rae and Sanctus Coach (& singer) Valentina Passiona all about how creativity can help and hinder out mental health.

James sits down with Coach, Sophie Miller, and our guest and winner of the Channel 4 hit reality show ‘The Circle’ - Alex Hobern - to chat about his mental health during and after the show, as well as the messages the show brought up about social media.

Clare Freeman and George chat through their burnout stories and reflect on what contributed to those self-destructive journeys in order to see what type of person it takes to burnout and see if there is anyway of preventing it.

James is joined by Sanctus head coaches Sophie Miller and Ben Graham (also psychotherapist) as they explore what is important to keep in mind when considering either coaching or therapy, before they discuss their personal experiences when working on their mental health in both mediums.