Keith Girling was in the studio again today. Keith talks openly and honestly about his mental health journey. He is frank and honest about his therapeutic journey. Listen in, it makes a really interesting listen.
Hi podcast listeners.
Thank you so much for being here and thank you for showing support and interest in our project to help make mental health more accessible.
Today we had the very well known locally Keith Girling, this is Keith’s second visit to studio and I’m sure it won’t be his last.
Keith talks openly and honestly about his own journey through mental health, he talks frankly about his personal journey through his ongoing therapy.
We began our podcast with our listener question. This week we were asked the difference between NHS therapy and Private therapy. The main difference for me, is freedom to work in a freer flowing manner than NHS. The NHS is a massive organisation, I think the largest employer in Europe. As an organisation it runs the risk of legal cases, so the boundaries it has in place, are really quite tight, they have to be to protect its future. For me It’s a little sad that this is the case, but it has to be this way.
The other reason it sometimes feels like the NHS system can work slower or not as advanced as Private is because: if a new piece of theory is found, or we find better and quicker ways of working: In the NHS this would have to be passed through all sorts of hoops first, they would need proof and lots of studies and data. In Private practice this movement to new healthier therapeutic interventions can be quicker. I’m more than convinced the NHS do the very best job they can the red tape that surrounds them and the pot of money they get given. On more than one occasion I personally have been thankful for the NHS. I spent many years working in the NHS and I’m thankful for the lessons I learned.
Keith and I also talked about spiritual journeys and what they meant to us. So what do I mean about “Spiritual journeys”? sometimes in a therapy session I might ask a client “do you have a belief system, and if you do what is it”? the response I get often contains the word religion. That’s not what I’m asking, its more about what the client might believe and when I think about spirituality, I’m not thinking religion. This of course will be different for many people, no real right or wrong, just different ways of thinking, mostly brought about by different paths of development to the age we are now. For me religion and spirituality can bring a sense of higher into a persons life.
Keith also talked openly about him being one of four brothers, his childhood, interactions with his father. It was a really interesting recording and one that I hope you get something from as you listen.
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Be happy and please be kind to yourself.
Kev x
