The Resilience Sessions - Jonny Benjamin and Stewart Harris

The Resilience Sessions is a podcast series featuring compelling in-depth interviews, which bring to light life-changing and affirming experiences of Blesma veterans and the unknown personal struggles of celebrity guests who have fought to overcome hardship, including mental health difficulties, disability, devastating injury and bereavement.

Please note that this episode features discussion of suicide and other subjects that some listeners may find upsetting. For information on useful helplines please search the "The Resilience Sessions" to find help and support or contact your support officer. 

This podcast series is created in association with The Drive Project, who work with Blesma to deliver Making Generation R. We have already helped over 50,000 young people and first responders through the Making Generation R campaign and have seen first-hand the positive impact these stories have on those who are struggling.

We hope that this podcast series will also provide moments of inspiration and strength to listeners. In this episode mental �health campaigner and author Jonny Benjamin talks with Stewart Harris, who was serving with 1st Battalion The Welsh Guards in Afghanistan when a roadside bomb left him with brain damage, partial sight loss and partial hearing loss.

Jonny and Stewart share their stories and experiences of mental health challenges up to and beyond the moments that both men tried to end their own lives. They share the many things they are grateful for, celebrate each other’s achievements, and swap some practical tips on how to build resilience and develop mental wellbeing.