As I am writing this, I acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I write from. I begin my...
Managing Mental Health
Personality Disorders
Personality disorders are a complex category of mental health disorders that are often poorly understood by the...
Make Your happiness: The A to T
How would you define happiness? Unsurprisingly, the answers differ, person to person. Some would say family, others...
Urge Surfing
Struggling with substances can be an incredibly draining and frustrating experience. The urges that often accompany...
Goal Setting
Goal setting is an important first step in achieving anything, whether personally or professionally. However, with the...
TIPP Skills: For coping effectively when emotions are running high
By Kelsie Bufton When we are faced with a really difficult situation we can easily be overcome by our emotions. When...
The STOP skill: To use when your emotions make you act impulsively.
Do you ever find that when you’re feeling intense overwhelming emotions (think anger, shame, sadness) you end up doing...
Using Wise Mind to Navigate Difficult Situations
By Kelsie Bufton Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) refers to three states of mind to describe our different states...
What is the brain-gut connection?
We talk about ‘gut instincts', and have experiences we describe as ‘gut wrenching’. It now looks like these aren’t...
Coming out of lockdown: Learning to Live in the new normal
By Carmen Beaumont. As Victorians, we certainly have had our fair share of lockdowns. This inevitably resulted in...
The Link Between Chronic Pain and Mental Health
By Sabrina Brient. Chronic pain is pain that is ongoing and lasts longer than expected after an injury, often three to...
How Social Media Impacts Mental Health
By Jake Lamberton. The advancement of the internet throughout our lives has been a marvellous technological...
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