The Walk and Talk Blog

Every November, International Stress Awareness Week shines a light on the pressures affecting our wellbeing at work and beyond. This year’s theme - “Optimising Employee Wellbeing through Strategic Stress Management” - encourages employers and employees alike to look at stress not as a sign of weakness, but as something that can be managed with awareness, action, and connection. For many men, though, that last part - connection - is often the hardest. From a young age, men are

This year, World Mental Health Day (10th October 2025) shines a light on how repeated exposure to crises and conflicts can impact our mental health. Everywhere we turn — TV, radio, social media — the news follows. Even when you open one article, it leads to another, and another. Before long, you’re stuck in a loop of distressing headlines and negative commentary. This behaviour has a name: doom scrolling — the habit of consuming endless streams of bad news online. It’s a cycl

On World Suicide Prevention Day, we shine a light not only on crisis—but on the possibilities for healing. Suicidal thoughts are more common than many believe, yet often those thoughts pass—or get pushed through—when we find an outlet that reconnects us to ourselves. Meet Joe... Joe Cartwright, a NHS paramedic from Dunstable, found himself grappling with PTSD and depression after a colleague suicide. He wasn't dealing with a long-term mental health diagnosis—he was deeply ov