I suffered my first ever panic attack at thirty years of age and I didn’t have a clue what was happening to me. It was the day my son was born. My wife Michelle was taken to theatre for an emergency C-section and I honestly thought she was going to die. I was terrified.

I trained as an NLP Practitioner and Master Practitioner and uncovered the power of our minds and how everything we've learned and been conditioned with will be dictating our programmes and how we handle and process our emotions, and the way we see ourselves and the world.

‘Champagne problems’ is a phrase I hear a lot in my line of work and I get it, as a professional musician, it’s very tough to look at what I do for a living and think that it’s fair to complain. The schedule is gruelling, the rest-periods are few and far between and the chances of ever becoming (and staying) successful are slim at best

In August, I moved to London to start teaching in a one form entry primary school in Paddington. This year has subsequently overtaken the last one as the most stressful of my life – by far. It’s amazing how quickly people can rally around you when you ask for help.

Looking back, I presented as a typical picture of a woman having gone through several months, or years in my case, of peri-menopausal symptoms struggling to cope with the fluctuations in hormone levels. Despite being a Nutritional Therapist and a former nurse, I didn’t connect my physical and emotional ill-health to the menopause.

I was 24 when I started my first job at a London-based city law firm. I had previously worked at a US firm – a corporate setting which had not yet awoken to the mental health issues young lawyers were falling victim to…

My struggles with mental health started when I was around the age of 15 and in secondary school. I would get anxious feelings and struggle to deal with emotions. But in recent years, whilst studying at uni, my mental health really hit rock bottom.