Digital resources for your mental health
Update 8/4/21 – Added in a link to a similar factsheet from eMHPrac crew. Sometimes when you are feeling down, you just want the sweet […]
Mobile Apps
Mindfulness Daily on Insight Timer
I am currently using the hour before bed for meditation/relaxation. I was previously just using it for random YouTube watching. In that time I typically […]
Smartphone use and mental health
I just finished reading an interesting article over on The Conversation on smartphone use and mental health. I recommend giving it a read, but I’ll […]
My experience of Brain.fm
I’ve been using Brain.fm for a few weeks now, with a paid membership. I am using it right now. I have it on one of […]
Coronavirus diary 24/3/20 - why meditation?
I’ll be blogging my way through the Coronavirus period, with a focus on the psychological impacts and how to keep yourself and the people you […]
Update on my mindfulness meditation practice: compassion and focus
Back in September of 2018, I started a regular practice of mindfulness meditation. Mindfulness meditation was so regularly being talked about in the scientific literature […]
Mental Health Week @ Flinders 2019 - core messaging
This post is part of a small series of posts that went ‘behind the scenes’ of Mental Health Week 2019 (MHW2019). The others included early […]
Update on my mindfulness practice
I started regular mindfulness meditation back in September 2018. I wrote about it in a blog post. I then provided an update to that in […]
Sunny, an app for women with disability to learn about violence and abuse
Sunny is an app that supports all women with disability who have been impacted by sexual assault, domestic and family violence, to understand violence, know […]
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 […]
Be Medicinewise Week
The 20th to the 26th August this year (2018) is NPS Medicinewise Week. NPS Medicinewise is an “an independent, not-for-profit and evidence-based organisation that works […]
One day we might prescribe mobile phone apps for mental health conditions.....
I was sent this paper today and decided to share my thoughts on it straight away. The authors of the paper set out to find […]
Could using your smartphone in a more focused way help you focus?
In today’s mental fitness post, we consider the relationship between daily inattention and smartphone use, thanks to a study by Marty-Dugas et al (2017). I’ll […]
Craving foods, cigarettes or alcohol? - mindfulness could help
I keep my eye on the All in the Mind podcast from the ABC – its all about the mind, and mental health and all […]
Could 'Active 10' replace the old 10,000 steps?
You’ve probably heard of the 10,000 steps a day rule for good health. You may have even, like me, loaded yourself up with a fitbit or […]