Neil Shah is the Founder, Director and Chief De-Stressing Officer of The Stress Management Society and International Wellbeing Insights. He is a leading global expert on stress management and wellbeing, co-founder of the campaign group Recovery and best-selling author of many books including The 10-Step Stress Solution

To mark Stress Awareness Month, we chat to Neil about why stress management is so crucial to our wellbeing, why having difficult conversations is more important than ever, how to reclaim control and what we can do to find a positive, constructive outlook at such a testing time.