Unmasking Mental Health In The Workplace In 2025
Yesterday I recorded a series of 14 short videos on unmasking mental health in the workplace in 2025.
Think about this for a few moments - potentially how many people across the earth today are going to work, people at all levels of business, and they are putting a mask on to their colleagues?
Of course I am speaking about a metaphorical mask.
A mask that is them attempting to show their colleagues, clients and the world that everything is good, they have their life together, and they are not battling with any demons in their life.
Moving Up The Career Ladder
Personally speaking, for over 20 years during my 20s and 30s, I was going to work, moving up the career ladder, becoming an entrepreneur, running a growing digital agency, yet I was wearing a mask. I was covering up the reality that I was battling with this dark, destructive voice in my head, that I was living with deep unforgiveness from experiences in my teenage years, and in spite of living what could be described as a “picture perfect life”, the reality was far different.
On The Bring Of Suicide
In my late 30s, whilst living this picture-perfect life, I was on a prestigious business trip in Vancouver, Canada. I was staying in a luxury Airbnb apartment, that was worth around $1.5 million, and it was around 23 or 24 stories high. One of the days I was stood on my own on the balcony, and that dark destructive voice that I had battled with since I was around 19 years young whispered to me:
“Just do it Paul, jump. There is no other way, you will finally be free.”
All I can say about this now, is thank God that He didn’t allow the enemy to have his way, and that I can now share this testimony of when I was on the bring on leaving behind my wife and 2 young daughters, at the height of my old, picture perfect life.
Therapy & Hypnotherapy
There was no-one in my life through my 20s or 30s that had the answer to how I could remove this mask once and for all. For over 5 years before my entire life as it was collapsed in 2019, I was seeking help through 1-1 therapy, and then realising after 5 years this hadn’t brought me any true, sustained peace, I turned to hypnotherapy.
The hypnotherapy was incredibly deep, emotional and eye-opening, as I started to relive experiences from my younger years.
On finishing 5 very deep sessions of hypnotherapy I was assured that I am now healed, and that I can finally start to move on with my life, with the experiences from my past no longer impacting how I live and experience life.
I trusted the therapist, paid my final £100 bill for the final 1 hour session, and went on my way.
That Dark, Destructive Voice
Around 2 weeks later that dark, destructive voice that had been speaking to me since I was around 19 years young came back - it had never fully gone away.
I was absolutely devastated.
I was trapped in this inescapable prison of my mind.
I wasn’t healed in any way.
I was in fact feeling even more depressed, helpless and hopeless.
I was completely lost.
I had reached the end of myself.
That was in 2019.
The Mask Is Finally Removed For Good
Now today, in December 2024, I am honoured to be able to share with you this series of 14 short videos, where I share from personal experiences the journey from wearing a mask to the world, to removing that mask and for it to NEVER be worn again.
Please do share this page with other people who come upon your heart, who may benefit from what I have shared here.
1. About the multitudes of mask wearers in the workplace
2. The C-Suite mask wearers in the boardroom
3. The leaders & managers in masks
4. The employees in masks
5. Mask wearing on the team building trip
6. Mask wearing on the work night out
7. Mask wearing in the middle of the night
8. What can the mask be covering up?
9. What is the worse that can happen if the mask stays on?
10. Is 1-1 therapy the answer?
11. Is hypnotherapy the answer?
12. Is meditation the answer?
13. Is religion the answer?
14. The future of workplace mental heath
Thank you immensely in advance for reading through this and watching the videos.
May God continue to bless and protect you, your family and your work colleagues.
Paul
Mental Wellbeing is 1 of the 17 assessment points within the Become People-Centric Employee Wellbeing pillar of the People-Centricity Maturity Model.
