The Truth About Stress - *Mental Health Awareness Week Special*

John Allison talks to former International Fulbright Scholar, University of East Anglia research fellow and best selling author, Angela Patmore about mental health, stress and how we can provide people with real practical action steps to help them move forward in challenging times.  Angela discusses her proven approach that has helped hundreds of people tackle adversity and grow.

Her work has featured on television and in numerous national newspapers. 

She shares a wealth of experience, knowledge, advice and steps that can be taken by anyone attempting to address tough times right now. 

For further information please see her webpage and books below:

www.angelapatmore.co.uk/stresspage.html

The Truth About Stress

Challenging Depression and Despair

Home Schooling Our Children:

With so many parents juggling life demands, work and schooling it's easy to feel the pressure.  For many parents it may be the first time they've ever had to take so much responsibility for their children's education.  While there are many challenges, they're also considerable opportunities for care givers too. 

I talk to Oli Ryan, former teacher and now senior manager for leading education company, PlanBee - www.planbee.com Oli offers some fantastic tips and ideas about how we can move forward, learn from our children, learn about ourselves and above all else support our children to the best of our ability. 

You can find some great resources for FREE from PlanBee here: Home Education Articles 

Tackling Traumatic Stress & UK Policing:

In this interview Dr Jessica Miller talks extensively about dealing with exposure to trauma, her own experience of dealing with PTSD and her remarkable work supporting UK first responders/blue light services.  Dr Miller goes into detail about the UK's first survey to assess trauma management and working conditions in UK policing which was concluded in December 2018.

The show will potentially be of benefit to anyone coming to terms with exposure to traumatic incidents or those helping to support a loved one.  Dr Miller provides a wealth of information to help us deepen our understanding of trauma exposure and how to deal with it. 

She also details her invaluable work with Police Care UK. 

Guidance about PTSD and Policing from the College of Policing 

Operation Surfwell - Devon and Cornwall Police

10% Happier App

Meditation for Fidgety Sceptics book

The Left of Burnout podcast is produced by John Allison, a British Army veteran with 24 years of service.  Upon retirement he became health and wellbeing manager for two large London-based advertising agencies.  Five years later, in 2017, he started holistic wellbeing service Motion to Mind™ and developed the 4M Framework™ for health and happiness.  More recently he launched a groundbreaking modular program, Stress Injury Prevention Training™ (SIPT™) to provide employers with a new program to support employees in work and in life. 

Left of Burnout is a phrase coined by John Allison and is a take on the term Left of Boom or Left of Bang which was used to describe a preventative approach to the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) threat in Iraq when John served as Intelligence Officer - Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC) Baghdad.  Stress related ill-health can be visualised as being on a continuum, from being well on the far left, to being mildly irritated, to dealing with anxiety, depression, traumatic stress injury, burnout and psychosis at the far right hand end of the continuum.  Helping people to empower themselves to keep far, far left of burnout and stay well, is the aim of the show. 

Chronic Pain & Stress:

Writer and journalist, Hannah Millington experienced chronic pain in her hands.  At one point she was told by medical professionals that there was no cure and she was given conflicting information by many health professionals.  Determined to find some answers Hannah carried out her own research leading her to deduce that the pain was linked to repressed emotions and the stress response.  In this fascinating interview Hannah shares with us a number of valuable insights including the power of hypnotherapy, the importance of expressing and not repressing emotions, the importance of education and much more.  

Hannah is a graduate of the University of the West of England.

You can read Hannah's article here

Other links and books that Hannah references in the podcast are:

Books by John Sarno

All the Rage video 

Books by Steven Ozanich

Psychophysiologic Disorders Association

The Left of Burnout podcast is produced by John Allison, a British Army veteran with 24 years of service.  Upon retirement he became health and wellbeing manager for two large London-based advertising agencies.  Five years later, in 2017, he started holistic wellbeing service Motion to Mind™ and developed the 4M Framework™ for health and happiness.  More recently he launched a groundbreaking modular program, Stress Injury Prevention Training™ (SIPT™) to provide employers with a new program to support employees in work and in life. 

Left of Burnout is a phrase coined by John Allison and is a take on the term Left of Boom or Left of Bang which was used to describe a preventative approach to the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) threat in Iraq when John served as Intelligence Officer - Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC) Baghdad.  Stress related ill-health can be visualised as being on a continuum, from being well on the far left, to being mildly irritated, to dealing with anxiety, depression, traumatic stress injury, burnout and psychosis at the far right hand end of the continuum.  Helping people to empower themselves to keep far, far left of burnout and stay well, is the aim of the show. 

Prenatal Stress & Fetal Programming:

The Left of Burnout podcast is all about prevention, preventing stress related ill-health and keeping people well. There is no better place to start the PREVENT journey then with an expectant mother and unborn child. If we're to give people the best possible start in life we have to do everything we can to support the expectant mother.  This episode with leading expert Professor Vivette Glover outlines why this is so important and some of the things we can all do to help prevent stress related ill-health in the next generation. You kind find out more here Begin Before Birth .   

The Left of Burnout podcast is produced by John Allison, a British Army veteran with 24 years of service.  Upon retirement he became health and wellbeing manager for two large London-based advertising agencies.  Five years later, in 2017, he started holistic wellbeing service Motion to Mind™ and developed the 4M Framework™ for health and happiness.  More recently he launched a groundbreaking modular program, Stress Injury Prevention Training™ (SIPT™) to provide employers with a new program to support employees in work and in life. 

Left of Burnout is a phrase coined by John Allison and is a take on the term Left of Boom or Left of Bang which was used to describe a preventative approach to the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) threat in Iraq when John served as intelligence officer - Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC) Baghdad.  Stress related ill-health can be visualised as being on a continuum, from being well on the far left, to being mildly irritated, to dealing with anxiety, depression and at the far right of the continuum, issues such as depression, traumatic stress injury, burnout and psychosis at the far right hand end of the continuum.  Helping people to empower themselves to keep far, far left of burnout and stay well, is the aim of the show.  

In this episode, British Army veteran John Allison, founder of the Left of Burnout podcast outlines the rationale behind the show, talks about some of the issues in his life that inspired him to produce it and do the work that he does today at Motion to Mind™. 

The Left of Burnout podcast is produced by John Allison, a British Army veteran with 24 years of service.  Upon retirement he became health and wellbeing manager for two large London-based advertising agencies.  Five years later, in 2017, he started holistic wellbeing service Motion to Mind™ and developed the 4M Framework™ for health and happiness.  More recently he launched a groundbreaking modular program, Stress Injury Prevention Training™ (SIPT™) to provide employers with a new program to support employees in work and in life. 

Left of Burnout is a phrase coined by John Allison and is a take on the term Left of Boom or Left of Bang which was used to describe a preventative approach to the Improvised Explosive Device (IED) threat in Iraq when John served as Intelligence Officer - Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC) Baghdad.  Stress related ill-health can be visualised as being on a continuum, from being well on the far left, to being mildly irritated, to dealing with anxiety, depression, traumatic stress injury, burnout and psychosis at the right hand end of the continuum.  Helping people to empower themselves to keep far, far left of burnout and stay well, is the aim of the show.