Our Emotional Well-Being Champions

Rodney Stone was from a good family and played football at a young age reaching the semi-professional level getting paid to play. At an early age of 17/18 Rodney started to experience serve Anxiety and panic attacks which he blames for stopping him being a professional footballer. However his mental health got the better of him at that point in his life as a result Rodney developed a coping technique; instead of going to the hospital every day Rodney instead choose to drink copious amounts of alcohol. It started off with a pint just to relax himself however it slowly got out of hand. 

November 2019 - Paul Atherton - Emotional Well Being ChampionI've contemplated long and hard about what it means to be an Emotional Wellbeing Champion and I'd like to think that it's an acknowledgment of how my story may help others to continue their own fights. My...

October 2019 - Lee Michael Walton - Emotional Well Being ChampionThe trauma of the reconstruction surgery to my face and mouth following radical cancer treatment was followed by a serious breakdown three years later. I realised when I was recovering from my breakdown...

September 2019 - Samual Hickery - Emotional Well Being ChampionI am 30 years old and in my life I unfortunately suffered several times with mental illness, this included depression, social anxiety, paranoia and psychosis. The onset of each came at various times with...

August 2019 - Keith Girling - Emotional Well Being ChampionI left the Grenadier Guards having served 18 years in a combat infantry regiment and although I managed to contain the effect of my service for almost 15 years I then suffered deep depression to the point...

July 2019 - David Burton Sampson - Emotional Well Being Champion Diversity? I tick many boxes.  Gay, mixed race, a Christian and a scouser!  From a single parent family in Liverpool I knew I was different from an early age.  The kids at primary school were white apart...

June 2019 - David Charkham - Emotional Well Being Champion DAVID CHARKHAM BIOGRAPHY‘Now that you’ve stopped, how do you stay stopped?’ David Charkham Addiction Recovery Coach, Motivational Speaker and Actor, David Charkham has been engaged as an Ambassador...

May 2019 - Johnny Benjamin MBE - Emotional Well Being Champion Jonny Benjamin MBE is an award-winning mental health campaigner, film producer, public speaker, writer and vlogger. At the age of 20 he was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder, a...

April 2019 - Kian Saville - Para Olympian - Emotional Well Being Champion At the young age of 18, Kian Saville has had an incredibly challenging start to life.  8 years ago, investigations began into why he had started fitting; what they discovered was...

March 2019 - Christopher Jones - Emotional Well Being Champion Christopher is Harley Streets leading fear + phobia removal expert. Passionate about pulling people out of their negative patterns of behaviour, Christopher shows his clients how to finally be...

February 2019 - Paul Claridge - Emotional Well Being Champion What a wonderful surprise to be named as the Emotional Well-Being Champion for February. In 2017 things were looking good for me. I was losing weight and feeling good. Then at the end of August...

January 2019 - Dave Rochelle - Emotional Well Being Champion What a lovely surprise and great honour it was to hear that I’ve been named champion of the month for MensRadioStation.com I’m even prouder to be the first to get the award and if talking about...