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Dealing with depression

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How to deal with depression in healthy ways

What is depression? Depression is a common mood disorder characterised by long-term or excessive sadness, often without a clear source. While sadness as a result of a negative life event can be extremely painful –…

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How to know when a relationship is over – and how to move forwards once it ends

A common trajectory for the end of a relationship is the slow tapering-off; a protracted period of tell-tale signs and wilful denial, as motivation to patch things up dwindles in one or both partners.  A…

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A Complete Guide to Seeking help in a State of Disaster

Wherever you’re based, we’re all feeling the strain under a year of unforeseen pressures, adjustments and challenges due to the coronavirus outbreaks. As Victoria’s State of Disaster continues and Sydney’s COVID-19 cases continue to climb,…

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Traumatic stress responses

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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): Everything You Need To Know

What is PTSD? Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental condition that develops in response to a traumatic event. It is characterised by intrusive recollections – ‘flashbacks’ – of the traumatising event that cause extreme…

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Deep breathing techniques can have a dramtic and helpful effect on the body during times of stress

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The Science of Healing Breath: How deep breathing can bring you calm, reduce anxiety and improve your health

Breathing is the critical mechanism for the maintenance of human life. It confers oxygen into the bloodstream, pumping the body with the essential molecules it needs for metabolic processes, and ridding it of unneeded waste…

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online counselling is a convenient, highly effective medium for getting support in the ocmfort of your own home.

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What is Online Counselling and how it can help you

A lot of terms that used to be unfamiliar have become part of our daily vocabulary due to the spread of COVID-19. Social distancing, flattening the curve, herd immunity. Another one of these is telehealth. …

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Overcoming Loneliness in Isolation & Lockdown

Canadian poet Rupi Kaur couldn’t have anticipated our present moment any more vividly than when she wrote, “the irony of loneliness is we all feel it at the same time.” The social distancing measures put…

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Healthy Ways To Help Your Marriage Last

Esther Perel, a world-famous couples therapist, states that “it is the quality of your relationships that determines the quality of your life”. The health of your relationship can be pervasive and interfere with all aspects…

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How positive thinking can help you through a global pandemic – and help your immunity, too

The COVID-19 pandemic has plunged all of us into a new and frightening way of living. In an unprecedented global health crisis, it’s natural to be experiencing anxiety, depression, or other forms of mental distress…

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Managing Family and Relationship Conflict During Self-isolation or Lockdown

Family relationships can be loving, joyous and fun – but also messy, stressful and irritating. All of us have strengths, weaknesses and flaws in the ways that we relate and communicate. In normal circumstances, couples…

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Posotive strategies to mange self-isolation and lockdown

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Positive Strategies for Managing Self-isolation or Lockdown

There are only so many hours you can watch looping news bulletins and read articles on the developing COVID-19 pandemic. Self-isolation is a time to plan for the worst and hope for the best. Without…

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Supporting Children Through Coronavirus (COVID-19)

If adults are feeling overwhelmed, concerned and confused about the mass media coverage of the COVID-19 health crisis, kids are having an even harder time trying to understand what is happening. Neuro-developmentally, children don’t yet…

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understanding fear, its reposnses and how to unlearn it

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Understanding fear and how to overcome fear in your life

What is fear? Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by a perceived threat of harm or suffering. Fear may be referred to by many different names; phobia, anxiety, social anxiety, panic, fight-or-flight and so on.…

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How to Get Help For Someone With Mental Health Problems

If you’ve noticed changes in your partner’s mood and behaviour, it may be a sign that they are experiencing mental health issues. It’s okay to be worried, and normal to wonder how you can help…

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Another Way To Understand Depression

What Does Depression Feel Like? Depression is all-encompassing, like a haze that has descended upon your mind and life that can’t be cleared. Depression is the most common disabling illness to affect the world’s population.…

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How To Deal With Anxiety In Children

A child’s life is full of new and daunting challenges not yet overcome, so learning to cope with anxiety and worry when it arises is a vital skill you can provide them to walk through…

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Behavioural Signs Of Anxiety In Children

Growing up can be hard. As children grow and face more and more aspects of their lives independently, it can be tough not to feel anxious sometimes. Some, if not all of these new tasks…

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The Stages of Grief

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The 5 Stages of Grief

Grief is not an easy road. Universally and across all people, it is one of the most debilitating human experiences. It is an indelible experience that can feel inescapable at times, numb at others.

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