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How to help someone with depression
Watching a loved one in the throes of depression can leave you feeling powerless. Depression is a uniquely isolating, lonely experience for a lot of people, and so you may see someone you care about…
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How to Deal With Anxiety in Everyday Life
Anxiety is a stressful and sometimes debilitating mental health condition, that will affect more than 2 million Australians in any given year. It can leave you feeling isolated, stressed and detached from your daily life.…
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What is Mindfulness? A Beginner’s Guide to Mindfulness
You’ve probably heard the term mindfulness bandied about, whether by yoga instructors or medical doctors, school teachers or businessmen – it’s an idea that seems to be sticking around. Depending on your knowledge and beliefs,…
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What does it mean to be LGBTQI+?
What does the acronym LGBTQI+ stand for? LGBTQI+ is an acronym for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer or questioning. The ‘plus’ sign refers to the many other self-identifications under the umbrella of ‘sexuality’ and/or…
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Snap-lockdowns: How to Safeguard Your Mental Health
It’s a familiar experience for many Australians over the course of the past year – things are going well, life feels almost back to normal, friends can be hosted and toasted, we can move about…
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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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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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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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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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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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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.…