Nathan is a podcaster and blogger under the name Mood Swings, a mental health advocate and passionate Muay Thai boxer.

In 2015 Nathan challenged himself to write 365 words a day for a year and during this time he wrote a well-received article about his own mental health struggles, including anxiety and depression titled “My mind and me”. 

Following this, in 2016, he went on to write an anxiety diary of sorts every day for a month in 2016 called ‘Mood Swings’ and consequently a podcast under the same title. The has now reach 100 episodes of Mood Swings podcast, hosting episodes with musicians, poets, writers, people in combat sports and people passionate about mental health.

Nathan is also a passionate about Muay Thai and he finds that, although this sport can be quite intense and can have its challenges, it is also quite spiritual – the rigorous training gives him a real routine and a real drive each day and has been a great help in reducing his stress levels and supporting his mental health.

In this episode Nathan talks about how Mood Swings came about, what Muay Thai training entails, the practices he implements and the challenges it sometimes brings, finding a sustainable and intuitive relationships with food and exercises, and his experience of mental health ups and downs.

A word of warning as is needed sometime with this podcast - in this episode we talk about calorie controlled diets and weight loss. If this is something that may be triggering for you at this time please feel free to move on and you can always come back this when you are in a better place.

To find out more about Nathan’s project Mood Swings you can find him on Instagram and Twitter @moodswingsabzor check out his blog on Tumblr and you can find his podcast onLibsyn, Apple podcast and Spotify under Mood Swings.

For more show notes: https://www.ljsprojects.uk/blog/nathan-mood-swings