Coping with the constant stream of information about how to be a better per...
I sit in the mental health/ wellbeing/ self-care/ mental fitness / self-improvement space. As a result I spend a lot of time giving people advice […]
Psychological Tools
Studyology V3 is go - procrastination be gone!!
Do you have trouble with procrastination? I certainly do. I’m pretty sure most people do. Counsellors tell me it is one of the most common […]
Midday Mindfulness Meditation Sessions On Wednesday with Dave
Mindfulness is the process of paying close attention to the present moment in an accepting and non-judgmental way. Whilst not a magical cure for anything […]
Uni is a training ground to learn how to exist in a psychologically demandi...
There was once a time in human history, where the main challenges of life were physical ones: securing shelter, accessing and preparing food and water, […]
Good goals or good process?
So I was listening to an interview with James Clear the other day. He writes and talks about habit formation and is the author of […]
Maintaining motivation @ home
I got an email from an academic recently requesting I come speak to their student group about maintaining motivation across the day. Well actually, it […]
Wellbeing and Productivity Hacks sessions kick off on the 5th May
I spend my day reading and writing about wellbeing and productivity. A lot of what I find and learn ends up here on the blog. […]
Pathways to wellbeing
Over the past month I’ve been lucky to have been involved in the delivery and refinement of the Be Well Plan – https://www.bewellplan.com/, a facilitated […]
Join Oasis Online for all your wellbeing needs (well, at least some of them...
Ok, so it is probably a little early for me to be promoting this, but I am building a topic on FLO called Oasis Online […]
Specific tools for managing thoughts, feelings, behaviours and unpleasant p...
High Res is a website and app that the Australian Defence Force (ADF) use to equip their ‘personnel with the knowledge and skills to maintain […]
How to cope with a meltdown
We’ve all had meltdowns. We will all have them again. They suck. But they are normal. Now despite my clinical background, ‘meltdown’ is not a […]
Coronavirus diary 8/4/20 - a colleague asks me some very probing questions
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 […]
This Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook has some decent stuff in it
Louise, one of our intake team just shared a workbook that she came across called the “Coronavirus Anxiety Workbook“. One of our psychologists then got […]
Coronavirus diary 3/4/20 - tackling procrastination
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 […]
Mental health advice amid COVID-19 concerns
This is a repost from the Flinders Newsdesk By Professor Mike Kyrios, Director, Órama Institute for Mental Health, Wellbeing and Neuroscience, at Flinders University. As […]
Wellbeing for Academic Success
I recently gave a couple of presentations on the topic of Wellbeing for Academic Success. The purpose of those presentations were to get new students […]
Loneliness
I’ve been reflecting on loneliness recently and realised I hadn’t read any research on the topic for quite a while. To correct that I accessed […]
Here's Why Perfectionism Will Destroy You and Everything You Love
Couldn’t resist sharing this excellent video from a YouTuber I watch called WheezyWaiter. I could write a long post about perfectionism or you could enjoy […]
Best possible self, meaningful photos and thought defusion
So I’ve been getting trained in a Wellbeing and Resilience program by the guys at SAHMRI Wellbeing and Resilience Centre. It has been really good, […]
I'll be talking about wellbeing and academic success during orientation
Flinders is going all out in 2020 on helping new students adjust to life at Uni. In addition to the standard O’week activities, Flinders has […]
Try adding these two things to your internal dialogue/ self-talk
You know how kids sometimes go around narrating everything they are doing? That is the early signs of their internal dialogue/ self-talk. As we get […]
OpenMind - online course for developing intellectual humility and open-mind...
So I just finished reading the book: The Coddling of the American Mind – How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for […]
What the hell is the authentic self?
I come across this term a lot. I have been pondering on it as part of a bigger question of trying to understand ‘who am […]
Neuroplasticity and tiny habits
Some days I wish my brain operated like a computer. Having identified a ‘bug’ (e.g. excessive love of chocolate), I could just write some new […]