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Managing Toxic Family Relationships at Christmas: When Professional Help is Needed

MaritesDec 19, 2024

How Can You Manage Difficult Family Dynamics This Christmas? Christmas is often celebrated as a time of joy, but for those facing strained family relationships, it can also bring stress and emotional challenges. Whether you’re dealing...

Navigating the Festive Season with Grief: A Guide to Finding Support and Hope

MaritesDec 17, 2024

The festive season is often seen as a time of joy and togetherness. Yet, for those experiencing grief, it can amplify feelings of loneliness and sadness, making this time of year especially challenging. Grief doesn’t follow a timeline,...

Navigating the Holidays with Calm and Purpose: A Guide to a Joyful and Meaningful Christmas

MaritesDec 13, 2024

This guide offers actionable strategies to help parents and singles reduce stress at Christmas, simplify their holiday celebrations, create meaningful traditions, and prioritise mental well-being. By addressing the common challenges of...

How do you have fun and keep your job after the work Christmas Party?

Gerda MullerNov 29, 2024

It’s been a long year, and summer has finally arrived. The office Christmas party is a well-deserved chance to let your hair down and celebrate the wins of 2019 with your colleagues, right? Wrong. The office Christmas party, while still a...

Christmas Planning Tips to Reduce Stress

Gerda MullerNov 15, 2024

Christmas is a special time of the year for most of us. It's especially a time for family gatherings and while it may be wonderful to get together and mark the passing of another year there can be many stresses about. Christmas is also a...

Tips to Revive the Christmas Spirit

Chelsea KnightNov 6, 2024

Argh, Is It Really Christmas Again? Don’t you wish for the days of being a kid at Christmas, refusing to go to bed because of the excitement of meeting Santa and his reindeers? Waking up at 5am on Christmas morning and racing to the Santa...

Stress and Anxiety – What’s the difference?

Anna HardingOct 27, 2024

In today’s society, we are all busy and it seems in some circles, the label of being “busy” and “stressed” is nearly a badge of honour and the term “anxiety” is used nearly as often. We like to multitask, and we like to feel as though we...

Jim Carrey on Overcoming Depression

Gerda MullerOct 18, 2024

No one is immune to depression, but with the right support it CAN be overcome Jim Carrey has made a career out of making people laugh. Yet Carrey’s humour was born out of 'desperation' while growing up with an ailing mother and an...

7 Tips to Manage Anxiety – Living Without Anxiety?

Davina DonovanOct 10, 2024

What is Anxiety? Anxiety, nervousness, stress, worry – these are all words I’m sure you’re familiar with. In fact, it’s a natural human tendency to experience these emotions. Anxiety is the feeling that tells us danger is near and we need...

Depression in Men – What Helps and What Makes It Worse

Tracy McLeanOct 2, 2024

Did you know that 48.1% of Australian men have experienced a mental health problem at some point in their life? In fact, 1 in 8 men will experience depression and sadly suicide is now the leading cause of death amongst men aged 15-44. Men...

Anxiety Disorders

Dr Daphne BryanSep 20, 2024

What is Anxiety? So what is anxiety? The word "anxiety” frequently has negative connotations. It may be associated with the feeling you get leading up to a dentist appointment, or feeling a pit in the bottom of your stomach. Many times...

Dealing with Anxiety Without Drugs: 15 Tips for you

Gerda MullerSep 10, 2024

Dealing with Anxiety - Without the Use of Drugs See our 15 tips for dealing with anxiety without the use of drugs. Tip 1 Meditate in a quite room. Meditation is simple, free, easy and proven to reduce anxiety and enhance health. Tip 2...

Sharing the Care of Children after Separation

Gerda MullerSep 1, 2024

Your relationship with your partner might have ended, but despite separation, you’re both still parents to your children. In most cases, it is in your children’s best interests for you to figure out how you can both continue to be...

How to Build Your Child’s Resilience

Danielle BarghAug 15, 2024

Resilient children bounce back in the face of setbacks and difficulties. While adults often assume that childhood is a carefree and happy period of life, the reality is that children experience stress too. Though they don’t have the...

When LOVE hurts: Understanding domestic violence

Tina SarianAug 1, 2024

From Rosie Batty becoming the 2015 Australian of the Year, to the recent outcome of the Victorian government’s Royal Commission into Family Violence, it seems like we are hearing more and more about domestic violence in the news and...

What is Grief and What You Can Do To Manage It?

Chelsea KnightJul 14, 2024

The Roller Coaster of Grief Grief can be a horrible thing to go through. Experiencing grief means we have lost something that is dear to us, whether this be a person, a pet, our home, our job or our sense of self, the impact on us...

Supporting Children in Response to Media Truma

Samantha KingJun 16, 2024

There was a siege of a Lint Cafe in Sydney in 2014 that lasted around 16 hours and had worldwide media coverage. At the time we thanked the Australian Child and Adolescent Trauma, Loss & Grief Network for providing the following input...

How to Get a Child to do Tasks that you want them to do

Clare ScanlonMay 11, 2024

Lets Understand What Tasks Are We all have different roles to play. As adults, we may be a Mother, Father, Worker, Gardener, Cook and/or student. For each of these roles, we have different tasks that need to be completed in order to...

Problem Solving Skills for Children

Ine TrompetMar 25, 2024

How do I help my children make better choices? The problem solving process Does your child seem to struggle with making the right choices in the moment? Does your child experience difficulties to stop and think before he/she acts, which...

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)

Karmen RussellMar 15, 2024

What is Autism Spectrum Disorder? Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a lifelong developmental disorder that is characterised by certain traits and difficulties. A person with ASD will primarily have difficult in relating to the world...

Executive Functioning

Olga MoisucMar 1, 2024

What is Executive Functioning? Executive functioning is a set of mental processes that allow us to link a set of skills developed through past experiences with present action. Basically, it is the Chief Management role of the brain and...

How to Cope with Workplace Bullying

Amanda FordFeb 22, 2024

Peer abuse or workplace bullying is a widely used term to describe the intentional and repeated emotional, verbal or physical harassment of an individual by one or more colleagues. It can vary from subtle intimidation or humiliation...

How to Combat Insomnia and Get Some Sleep

Gerda MullerJan 23, 2024

Insomnia is a common sleep disorder People who have insomnia have trouble falling asleep, staying asleep, or both. As a result, they may get too little sleep or have poor-quality sleep which often results in them not feeling refreshed...

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