Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast
Have you ever felt like you’ve become lost in your own life?
Many men struggle to talk about their problems and mental health and grew up believing that to do can be perceived as a sign of weakness or failure. There is also a lack of open discussion in society around men’s mental health, especially aimed at mid-life men. As a result, at times many men can feel alone and lost in their own lives.
In this podcast series, I talk to mid-life men about their stories; the challenges, the turning points, and the support received to help them find their way so that others who may be suffering in silence or don’t know what to do next, realise that they are not alone and there is help available.
Stories will cover a whole range of challenges faced by mid-life men mainly relating to the causes of mental health issues including feelings of isolation, depression, job dissatisfaction, addiction, PTSD, and long-term illness.
The podcast is NOT a replacement for professional support and we signpost to organisations and their contact details by episode.
If you have a story you would like to share or any feedback on the podcasts, please email me: midlifemen01@gmail.com.
Mid-life Men: the mental health podcast
What If Life Doesn’t Go the Way You Planned? with Seejai
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Seejai was a Division I basketball player with a professional future in his sights.
Then, without warning, his body started telling a different story.
What he thought were manageable breathing issues became a serious heart condition, the end of the sporting path he had spent years working towards, and eventually two heart transplants.
In this conversation, Seejai talks openly about the shock of watching life veer away from the plan you had in your head and the mental toll that comes with trying to process that while still pretending you’re coping.
We talk about denial, drinking, anger, regret, and the strange pressure men put on themselves to stay strong when privately they feel frightened and completely out of control.
This is also a conversation about resilience, but not in the neat motivational sense. More the reality of waking up each day and deciding to keep going when your body has let you down and your future no longer looks familiar.
Seejai reflects on facing mortality twice, the survivor’s guilt that followed, the people who gave him strength when he needed it most, and why music became an outlet when almost everything else had been stripped away.
His circumstances are unusual. The experience of having life not go the way you planned is not.
This episode is for any man who has had to rethink who he is, where he’s heading, and how to keep moving when none of it looks the way he expected.
If you want to listen to Seejai’s music, you can find him on Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube and on other channels. You can also find his book: The Transplant Journey Journal on Amazon.
