If you’ve ever felt drowned by the demands of work and life, you know you’re not alone.

At CityLit’s Mental Wealth Festival, Rachel Morris and Helen Brooks explored practical ways to regain control, transform overwhelm into action, and build true resilience—tools everyone can use to thrive in our high-pressure world.

Burnout doesn't just sneak up on teams—it announces itself in silence, missed deadlines, and fading energy.

Real resilience in teams isn’t built through overwork or empty slogans.

When did you last ask someone how they were, and although they said ‘fine’ you weren’t convinced? It happens regularly in the coaching room, as Rachel Morris acknowledges.

The way we communicate when faced with the signs of stress has a huge impact; finding a way of enabling someone to open up and discuss their true emotions is a real skill…

Stress seems to have become a badge of honour in modern working life. Conversations in the coaching room suggest that many people accept it as the price of ambition, of building a career or of having increased responsibility.

But if the “slippery slope” resonates silently, you may well already recognise the meaning of burnout.

We don’t believe that mental health in the workplace will improve through campaigns and slogans alone, or through nice sounding values written on lovely walls.  

It only improves when actions match intentions. When mental health isn’t an afterthought but woven into ‘who we are, and how the work in our place gets done’.  Rachel explores her beliefs in our latest blog.