Episode 43: Chris Connolly

This week I’m joined by Chris Connolly. Chris is a personal trainer and a mental health advocate who uses his TikTok page to help people who are going through addiction and mental health difficulties, like he had experienced in the past. Chris chats to me about his upbringing in the Fatima Mansions, using alcohol and drugs to cope with his lingering demons, his experience with drug-induced psychosis and how a psychotic episode led him to the streets of London, recovery and more. As I have mentioned in this episode, everybody loves a rags to riches story, but there is nun better than a comeback story. We hope that listening to Chris and his story on how he was at rock bottom and completely turned his life around for the better can inspire anyone who are currently going through what Chris had gone through and seek the help that they need and deserve.