Is your first instinct to say “thank you but no thank you” when someone offers to help? Whether it is help with the housework, a project or something else, do you automatically turn them down without even thinking? Even if it is a friend or family member generously offering help, does accepting make you feel […]
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Are you having one of those days when everything goes wrong? The alarm fails to wake you up and the shower is cold. You grab a coffee on the way out the door and spill it all over you while stuck in a traffic jam on the way to work. Now you are running late,
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No parent is immune from feeling lonely at times. Whether married or single, loneliness is something you can battle from time-to-time. But when you are a single parent it can get very lonely doing everything on your own. Being both mother and father, whether you are a working or a stay-at-home mum, can be tough
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Do you look in the mirror and hate how you look? I’m too fat. Too ugly. Too tall or too short. You hate the colour of your hair. These can be some of the thoughts that may run through your head. Or do you feel grateful? Acceptance and contentment in what you see? Body image
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Working from home is something to celebrate for most people. You are free to work whenever you want — night or day. But the novelty can wear off quickly when you do not put guidelines in place. You need structure. First to achieve productive outcomes and second, to balance personal and work time for good
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Contrary to some people’s great expectations, you do not have to be happy all the time. This is not natural. You need to feel a whole range of emotions to grow as a person. It is when sadness, anxiety and stress become normal that you need to question why. Happiness comes in cycles and may
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Becoming a parent should be a joyful experience. But for many it can be far from that. It can be a time of fear, anxiety, depression and overwhelming feelings. And not only for women. It can also affect men. With a theme of ‘Tell someone who cares’, Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Awareness Action (PANDA) Week
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With the world coming out of a pandemic, there is a lot of talk about its effects on people’s mental health. There is nothing that can prepare you for being put in isolation. It is not something we have experienced before. Most of Australia got things under control quickly and opened their economies months ago.
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Being emotionally abused is often another way a physical abuser can subject you to abuse. But this is not always the case. Physical and emotional abuse do not always go hand-in-hand. There are situations emotional abuse can exist without the physical aspect. Remember, any type of abuse is never the fault of the person on
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While bipolar disorder is usually diagnosed in older children and teenagers, children of all ages can suffer from it. So what is bipolar disorder? It causes severe mood swings from euphoric highs to the lows of depression. As all parents know, children’s moods and behaviour are unpredictable. How they feel and behave, and energy and
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