A Space To Speak Your Mind
A Space To Speak Your Mind
A Space To Speak Your Mind
Stress Awareness Month, Red Light Therapy; and Purple Day 2026
53 minutes Posted Apr 2, 2026 at 2:25 pm.
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April is Stress Awareness Month and on the show we hear from Thorrun Govind who is a Pharmacist and former chair of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society, with a special interest in public health and wellbeing about the significant toll that everyday anxiety is taking on people’s wellbeing and daily lives, with many of us feeling persistently overwhelmed.


With Purple Day having just taken place we find out about the annual awareness day for Epilepsy with Elina Patel who is a film and television student at the London Screen Academy and was diagnosed with epilepsy at the age of eight.


Karen talks to Jon from Lighten up, a red therapy centre in Newquay and we hear again from Sarah who shared her story around ADHD and Autism last month and is back to tell us about her experience of Anxiety and Depression.




“A Space to Speak Your Mind” is produced in collaboration with Cornwall Mind:

https://cornwallmind.org/peer-support-group/radio-show/

More support at: www.samaritans.org/ or call 116 123

There is also a 24/7 NHS local urgent mental health response phone line.

Its free to access by anyone, any age on 0800 038 5300

Or call the new NHS Crisis Hotline by calling 111 and pressing Option 2.


This gives you another way to access if you’re struggling with your Mental Health.