Jon Bell is an integrative psychotherapist with experience working with a wide variety of people facing uniquely different and difficult challenges. He has just completed his MA thesis into vulnerability in Rugby League, looking at how striving for authenticity in the toughest of sports can present all of us with a therapeutic template for happier, wholehearted living.
Jon has recently started practicing as Mantality's lead counsellor and has just recently started offering support for people who feel like counselling would improve their life. In this podcast, they cover: The 'unwritten code' when living as a rugby league player, Jon's rugby league career, what Jon believes a sportsman goes through when retiring from their sport, the power of counselling and why Stevie uses it, how to use vulnerability.
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#038 Cultivating Resilience During A Pandemic (with Dr Allan Johnston)
#037 From Rugby League to Hollywood (with Adam Fogerty)
#036 Rob Burrow - Rising To The Challenge
#035 Meeting Matt Lewis, The Man Behind The Character
#034 Living Your Truth (with Neil Smedley pt. 2)
#033 Barrie McDermott
#032 Living & Thriving With Motor Neuron Disease (with Dr Neil Verner)
#031 Mental Health Management, Fear & Reflections On Malibu Beach (with Mark Whittle from the Take Flight Podcast)
#030 Just A Boy (with Richard McCann)
#029 The Life And Soul (with Tom Swift)
#028 A Northern Soul (with Steve Arnott)
#027 The Effects Of Stress And How To Manage It (with Professor Daryl O'Connor)
#026 Accept And Control The Controllable (with Leading Sports Psychiatrist Dr. Allan Johnston)
#025 Old School Football (with Brian Deane, Ex Leeds Utd & Sheffield Utd)
#024 How To Move Out Of Your Head (with Trent Merrin)
#023 Mental Health in the Workplace (with Jodie Hill)
#022 Hardening Your Core (with Neil Smedley)
#021 Resilience and the Truth of Toughness (with Brian McDermott)
#020 What's Inside The Belly Of A Beast? (With elite athlete nutritionist Tom Geeson-Brown)
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