Welcome to episode 127 with Sam Delaney, a journalist and broadcaster whose work has featured in Guardian, Big Issue, Talk Sport and many others.
He is also a podcaster and an author and I reached out to Sam after reading his recent book, Sort Your Head Out: Mental Health without the Bollocks.
It’s a great read and I can’t recommend it highly enough! It was great to chat to Sam about his work in the media and why he started writing about his mental health.
We talk about feelings and emotions and how it’s easier to drink them away rather than actual feel them. We also talk about why that strategy doesn’t work very well at all!
We chat about Sam’s struggles with addiction and how he got sober and we chat about the impact that his childhood and lad culture had on his mental health as he got older.
We chat about boozing, anxiety, looking out for your mates and going to therapy.
It’s a really open and honest conversation between two blokes who both had to learn to talk about this stuff the hard way and it was a lot of fun to be a part of!
You can connect with Sam on Twitter @DelaneyMan or Instagram @theresetsam and links to everything is does can be found at www.samdelaney.co.uk
Sort Your Head Out (Mental Health Without the Bollocks) is available now in all bookshops.
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