It's a tough time for small business owners, with rising costs and uncertainty potentially

having an impact on their mental health.

But Lloyd's Bank and Mental Health UK have partnered to help, offering free therapeutic

coaching sessions to business owners across the country, like Emma, who runs ELP Barbershop

in London.

Running a business has been really difficult in the last three years with all the mounting

challenges.

My coaching sessions have helped me understand a better way of gaining balance between my

professional and personal life and how to maintain resilience through these testing times.

The techniques I'm learning are helping me be a better business owner and a better understand

how stress affects the mind and the body.

What I've learned won't just help me now, it will help me in the long term to keep

myself and the business healthy.

To book your own coaching session and for practical guidance on building mental resilience,

visit Lloydsbank.com slash Stronger Mind.

Lloydsbank by the side of business.

This is CBSI in the world, I'm John Bachelors, the Balkans.

The Balkans were the bane of this of Europe a hundred years ago, but they are a mystery

today in the 21st century, not because of what happened once upon a time in the outbreak

of the Great War, the First War, but because of what happened to the close of the 20th

century, lost to me in the reporting.

Now, many years later, it is refreshed and stated in new by Tim Judah, the Balkans correspondent

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