E6 featuring Elina Demurger-Jones: Mental Health and the challenge of making different decisions to your peers

This week I am talking to Elina Demurger-Jones about the career “one-night stands” she was able to try out with the security of her partner’s financial support to enable her to flirt with different jobs, including working around nursery hours, before finding her one true vocation in life. Elina shares her child-like rage when her husband decides to follow her into the same career. Despite their career alignment, Elina’s role favours the employed structure with the security of sick-pay, pension contributions and holiday pay, whereas her husband is self-employed: higher-risk and higher-reward. We talk trauma, mental health, and NHS access to counselling services, and we wonder, is the biggest barrier for women the mindset around childcare and the challenge of making different decisions to your peers? If Elina sounds like someone you could talk to about any emotional, relationship, grief or addiction struggles you may be facing now, she does have some private practice availability, and so does her husband; their practice is https://www.onyoursidetherapy.com/