Everybody needs Encouragement

Everybody needs Encouragement

Encouragement is a great motivator. As we face the regular daily routines of our lives, it can be easy to drift into complacency. We become pretty familiar with what it is in store for us each day and how to progress through the daily business. We can even run many of our tasks – and relationships –…

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Improve Your Communication

Improve Your Communication

There are many occasions in our lives that have resulted in us feeling angry or hurt by the words and actions of others. These feelings may continue to arise within us as an automatic response to any behaviour that we have interpreted as insulting, demeaning, humiliating, or otherwise negative, and they may get in the…

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How do you rate your Mental Health?

How do you rate your Mental Health?

The month of October has been dedicated to mental health awareness, with World Mental Health Day being celebrated on October 10. The purpose of promoting mental health is to raise awareness of the importance of our thoughts and feelings, our self-image and self-worth. How we view ourselves impacts directly how we view others and how…

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Tips for managing chronic illness

Tips for managing chronic illness

Living with chronic illness, whether it be of a physical or psychological nature, can be demoralising and at times bring us to the point of despair. The following tips are presented to assist you or those you care for in managing chronic illness. Accept your condition Accepting the changes to your life, along with the effects…

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Following a Passion

Following a Passion

From Guest Blogger Sanchit Khera There’s 7 billion people, give or take a few. How many of them are pleasure-fully experiencing their life and following a passion? If you settled at a lower number, then that speaks a lot about your own condition and the condition of your surroundings. Imagine if everyone just did what they felt…

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Negative emotions are not all negative

Negative emotions are not all negative

Negative emotions, such a sadness, anger, guilt, shame and fear can be draining and can contribute to a reduced state of health and wellbeing. Such emotions can also contribute significantly to conditions of fatigue and pain. It goes without saying that when we experience negative emotions, we are not in a particularly happy place or feeling at…

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Urgent need for Transformation

Urgent need for Transformation

Do you ever wonder how our world can become transformed? What will it take to bring about real transformation? How will people who are outcast become reunited in community? How will greed be replaced by fair go and generosity? How will punishment be replaced by rehabilitation? How will judgment be replaced by compassion? How will…

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Back 2 Basics 4 Health and Wellbeing

Back 2 Basics 4 Health and Wellbeing

Need to find balance in your life but don’t know where to start? Confused about all the conflicting information out there? These were the foundation questions for the establishment of the Back 2 Basics event, initiated by Elyse Comerford, Sydney Nutritional Therapist and Health Coach, and Darwin based Kathleen O’Keeffe, Energy Worker and Health Coach….

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Looking Beyond the Symptoms

Looking Beyond the Symptoms

Our health is one aspect of our lives that we often take for granted. This changes when we feel that our health is diminished in some way and we begin to experience symptoms of discomfort.When we experience problems with our health, most of us will seek treatment with the hope of recovery. We notice particular…

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The importance of noticing the good

The importance of noticing the good

As we are jolted into another year through the broadcasting of terror attacks and devastating world events, it becomes more evident that we are not immune to the horrors that have been generally associated with distant lands. The globalisation of our world through technology means that we take the good with the bad; however when…

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