I started a meditation program today
This morning I started a program of mindfulness meditation. I was inspired following a discussion with a student yesterday who highlighted the introduction of meditation […]
Life Skills
Embedding mental fitness concepts in your everyday life
On the Student Health and Wellbeing blog I talk about a range of mental health and mental fitness topics. In most posts, I endeavor to […]
Meditation with Dave
Meditation is all the rage… There is some decent science to back it up, and if you practice it regularly for at least 20 years, […]
Meaning and purpose in life
In a previous post, I looked at how to derive a sense of meaning and purpose from your studies. Given that you spend a large […]
Wellbeing for Academic Success FLO topic is live
I like this blog. It is a nice home for me to talk about student health and wellbeing. However, it is not necessarily the easiest place […]
Ask Dr G - What is student wellbeing to you?
I’m participating on a panel on the 6th August for mid-year commencing students that is focused on wellbeing. Ahead of time the organiser of the […]
Dr G's guide to self-care
Update: we now have a new Self Care Mega Guide with extra strategies and our service pamphlet attached to the back. A nice upgrade on the […]
Become A Behaviour Change Expert: Part 3 - Social Support
Welcome to Part 3 of Becoming a Behaviour Change Expert. In this series I am looking at the skills you can develop, so you can […]
The Cognitive Behavioural Model and how you can use it in your own life
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT – which has many variants) is a widely used evidence-based model of therapy that is helpful in addressing a range of psychological […]
Dealing with the aftermath of exams - podcast
So I am a little excited today. The reason? I just finished editing the first podcast I have ever created. I sat down with Khristin, one […]
A quick guide to self-care for mentors
Note 19/4/19 – an updated self-care guide can be found here. Last week a colleague of mine and I ran a mental health/self-care workshop for […]
Is the idea of 'finding your passion' unhelpful?
The phrases “Find your passion” or “Follow your passion” are so ingrained in western culture that I’m confident that most people have heard them at […]
Become A Behaviour Change Expert: Part 2 - Monitoring and Feedback
In Part 1 of my series on “Becoming a Behaviour Change Expert”, I looked at how to set better goals when attempting to make a […]
Guest author post - 'Handling conflict and misunderstandings in relationshi...
Back when I started my eMental Health Project Officer role at Flinders, I was introduced to Kellie Cathcart from the University of Newcastle (UON). She […]
Become a Behaviour Change Expert: Part 1 - Setting Goals
Most people I’ve known, or come into contact with as part of my work, have at some point in time wanted to make some kind of […]