Overcoming adversity and achieving success following ADHD diagnosis as an a...
I met student Bianca Baron, a 3rd year Paramedic Student at a Shut Up and Study session. She revealed that she’d been diagnosed with ADHD […]
Psychological Tools
Access the first Studyology session to see if this anti-procrastination pro...
Overview – Studyology is a program for Flinders University students that teaches them psychological tools for tackling procrastination. Whilst live sessions run during the year, many […]
Final Be Well Plan Opportunity for this year (2021) 🛑
Update: Additional dates and formats announced for being able to do the Be Well Plan before 2021 finishes. Register here: https://qualtrics.flinders.edu.au/jfe/form/SV_cSheSbetc7AMw0C We are running 1 […]
Introduction to Mental Fitness Handout
Mental fitness is one’s capacity to manage and even thrive in the face of the many and varied psychological demands of life. Building mental fitness […]
A stoic approach to lockdown
By the time you read this we might be out of lockdown or into an extended one. Regardless, some of the ideas here might have […]
Trialling a basic habit tracker
There are habits that I know from personal experience (or can justify on the basis of evidence-based health practices), that I should have embedded into […]
A better (enhanced) way to say 'thank you'
Could you say thank you better? Seems you might be able to. Just a quick post today looking at some research by Park et al […]
There is a Be Well Plan program starting 15th July you can join
The Be Well Plan is a mental health focused program that teaches you to create your own mental health and resilience strategy. It is like […]
How to be supportive
Despite training as a psychologist, I kinda suck at a number of aspects of human-human interaction (to be clear, I am totally fine with human-plant […]
Studyology is coming (but one week later)
A reminder that I will be running Studyology (a 5 x 1 hour program designed to help you tackle procrastination) in August. Full details can […]
Next Studyology for procrastination starts on the 19th August
Studyology is a 5 x 1-hour session program that teaches you psychological techniques for tackling procrastination. It is built on the foundations on Acceptance and […]
A reminder about Studyology and Mindfulness for Academic Success
When you get this update, I will be on a couple of weeks leave. Sorry, is that gloating? Just because I am away though, doesn’t […]
Interruptions, prospective memory and mental fatigue
Simple tips for better study outcomes, drawn from techniques to improve performance in high stakes workplaces. As part of my membership of APS, I get […]
Mindfulness for Academic Success - July/Aug 2021
Just got notice from Maureen that Mindfulness for Academic Success is running again in July This very popular program teaches mindfulness principles in the context […]
When adding wellbeing activities to our life feels like just another chore
At last night’s Be Well Plan session, a dominant theme was the challenge of building wellbeing activities into one’s life when one’s life is already […]
10 pieces of advice for PhD students (which are probably ok for other stude...
I was fortunate the other day to spend 90 minutes with some relatively new PhD students talking about mental health. I must have enjoyed it […]
Two methods for dealing with negative self-talk
You know that brain of yours that does a whole lot of remarkable things (learning, sensing, problem-solving, loving, motivating etc)? Well it ain’t perfect. I […]
Can't find the right word to describe how you are feeling?
Just finished reading an article called “Measures of Emotion: A review”. My hats off to the authors (Mauss & Robinson, 2009) for their succinctness of […]
Mental Fitness Community - sign up!
Mental Fitness has become a pet topic of mine. I think about it and write about it a lot. That thinking and writing culminated in […]
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 […]
Your personal rules and beliefs shape your wellbeing
We all have personal rules and beliefs about how the world works. They shape how we think about ourselves, other people, and our purpose in […]
2021 Mental Fitness Diary from the Resilience Agenda
Readers might be aware that I have an interest in the topic of mental fitness. I talk about it on the blog and when I’m […]
Irrational beliefs
This article caught my attention a while back. It is called ‘The Academic Rational Beliefs Scale: Development, Validation and Implications for College Counsellors’ by Egan, […]
Awareness, connection, insight and purpose: critical components of wellbein...
Welcome to 2021 everyone! This year on the Student Health and Wellbeing Blog, I really want to focus on digging into the published research on […]