'Corona – riding the wave and juggling roles' by Counsellor Zoe
I put out the call to members of our team for their insights into how to manage your mental health during an unprecedented change in […]
Well-being
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 […]
Just tell me how to have a good life already!
In my line of work I come across a lot of ‘wellbeing frameworks’. A wellbeing framework is simply how an individual or organisation or group […]
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 […]
Counsellor Vanessa shares the wellbeing tips that are keeping her grounded
I put out the call to members of our team for their insights into how to manage your mental health during an unprecedented change in […]
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 […]
Some updates from the Orientation team
So Orientation Month (March) has taken a little bit of a battering, as you can imagine, because of the Coronavirus (f*&k you virus). But all […]
Greater Good’s Guide to Well-Being During Coronavirus
A resource I call on frequently in the Greater Good In Action website. For the past few years they’ve been collecting evidence-based strategies to improve […]
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 […]
How much can you change your own happiness?
So I read this article on the bus home the other day. It is called “Revisiting the Sustainable Happiness Model and Pie Chart: Can Happiness […]
Students telling students how to look after themselves
Update 22/1/20: I completed the same exercise with some physiotherapy masters students… I’m a qualified health professional. That means I spend large amounts of time […]
What is the deal with gratitude?
I’m reviving an article I wrote a while back. Why? Cause I am lazy mostly. But also, this is a good time of the year […]
Supporting the mental wellbeing of mature-aged university students from reg...
Many interesting things arrive in my various email inboxes. This one concerns mature-aged undergraduate students who come from regional or remote Australia. If that is […]
Four writing exercises that might improve your health
Many years ago I discovered the expressive writing work of James W Pennebaker, a social psychologist from the University of Texas. I am pretty sure […]
The ADHD SuperPower
Forget the stereotypical images from the media of out of control children destroying furniture, today we’re talking with a real Flinders student, James, about how […]