Illicit drugs and the AFL
Recent calls for a stricter AFL drug policy have again fomented debate around changing societal values, mental health and harm reduction.
Pushing happiness as the holy grail is creating ‘generation anxiety’
The statistics portray an alarming truth: our young people are drowning in a sea of toxic stress.
In this photo I am living my best life. The reality was very different
This photograph of a smiling, carefree woman at a ball #lovinglife masked a darker truth. Just weeks earlier I’d been writing suicide notes.
‘New Year, New You’ is built on a lie, and I’m not buying it
It’s a lie built on one of the most destructive human emotions – shame. It implies that there’s something wrong with the ‘old you’
I am staying home on New Year’s Eve, and I’m totally fine about it
One of the unexpected gifts of getting older has been letting go of what I feel I should be doing with my life, and pursuing…
I spared myself 400 hours of screen time … and got to read 52 books
I wanted to slow down the chatter in my head. The frenzied anxiety of digital overload had left me longing for quiet and the ability…
Mindfulness is fine, but staring at a raisin won’t cure anxiety
For many people with ongoing mental health issues, mindfulness is a simplistic “magic pill” solution to a complex problem.
You don’t need one true soul mate to ‘complete’ you
The hunt for our missing piece starts from that first bedtime story. We’re taught that if we want our “Happy Ever After” we must find…
When the answer to R U OK is ‘no’ and there’s nowhere to go
“Many people are no longer here because they couldn’t afford their mental illness. Our complex emotional pain is being treated with six-minute medicine.
How our happiness pursuit is making us more anxious than ever
Jill Stark was living the fairytale. She should have been happy. So why was she hemmed in by crippling anxiety?