This week is Children's Mental Health Week.

1 in 6 5 to 16-year olds have a diagnosable mental health disorder, with 6 in 10 young people saying they are experiencing mental health difficulties such as anxiety, low mood, eating disorders, and self-harming behaviours. Yet only a third are able to access any effective treatment.  

I'm really grateful to James for coming back on to Time to Talk for us to talk about the big issues effecting young people today.   We talk about eating disorders and self harm and hopefully as ever share some hope and some tips for young people or their carers.  Watching a young person struggle with their mental health is really hard.  We want to fix it for them but we don't know how.

James Roast qualified as a psychotherapist in 2008.  Initially trained in Psycho-dynamic psychotherapy and Hypnotherapy, he began operating an outpatient clinic in South Woodford, East London, specialising in Trauma; specifically with the Fire Service. Later more specialised training in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) and a Post Graduate Certificate, Post Graduate Diploma and Masters degree from the University of Cambridge has qualified him to combine strengths from all Psychotherapeutic theoretical models. James began his work with adults before further training enabled a specialism in the Child & Adolescent field.  He has also studied under Prof. Chris Fairburn a specialist in Eating Disorders.

We cover hard topics in this conversation, please feel free to reach out if you need support. 

Enquiries@cognitivesportstherapy.com

Nicola has been a health and fitness coach for over ten years. She has a particular interest in working with women specialising in pre and post natal care since 2008. Since 2018 she has been specialising in working with peri and post menopausal women. and she runs a weekly fitness group for women over 40 alongside her Buggy Bootcamp sessions, Cross fit and strength based classes for women.   She has a wealth of knowlege to share on the best way to move in this phase of life, how to avoid injuries and how to get started if like many women we have taken time out for family and career and are struggling to know how to get going again.   Movement is so good for us both mentally and physically. 

I hope this conversation gives us the inspiration to find the love of being active and to see the potential and opportunity in the perimenopause to be stronger than ever.

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This is my weekly interval run session.

My virtual run club!

These sessions are for any level of runner as you can make the high intensity interval session as fast as you need it to be to make the session work for you.

I suggest using these sessions once a week to help improve cardiac fitness and speed.

The sessions are also designed to help you feel strong in your mind, body and breath.

Do not run an interval session if you are injured and stop and seek help if you develop chest pain or shortness of breath that is more than you would expect.

This session is written as a 5 minute warm up jog followed by 4 times (3 minutes hard effort with 1.5 minutes of rest interval) and cool down jog.

The whole work out is 25 minutes long and we will be thinking about a positive core value along with using our breath to help particularly in our rest interval and we will be thinking about our form and specificlly engaging our core as we run on our harder efforts.

Enjoy!