Where does Violence towards Women begin? Understanding and Responding to Teen Sexual Harassment
The article discusses the alarming prevalence and impact of sexual harassment among adolescents. The author, a therapist and father, shares personal insights reflecting both professional and parental concerns. It highlights statistics revealing that many young Australians, both sexes, experience various forms of harassment, often starting in their early teens, and emphasizes the need for open…
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Building the Relationship with Children in new Blended Families
Blending families is a significant transition that requires patience, understanding, and love, especially when it comes to building relationships with children. To foster strong bonds, it’s crucial to prioritize patience, create a safe space for communication, establish new traditions, respect previous relationships, build individual connections with each child, be consistent and reliable, work as a…
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Instead of a New Year Resolution
Instead of a new years resolution, here are some deeper and more successful techniques to defining your goals, purpose and vision
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Intent
Intent – a word that not only helps guide us, but is also how we perceive others and learn more about ourselves.
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Unhealthy Generosity
A deep drive to give. Sacrificing and compromising all in the name of helping others, making others happy. But what is healthy generosity
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Communication has a lifetime
Communication is built from a lifetime of interactions and learnings. This article explores the parts of communication and how it plays a role in our important relationships
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All the little steps
Goals… aspirations… happiness… unhappiness… there are a range of reasons and motivations that spark the desire for change in our lives. Often at some level we are aware that something needs to be different and sparks some energy to go find it. And I think most of those are really positive and healthy motivations, even…
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Values and purpose for happiness
Morning Gang! At some point in our lives we are challenged with finding happiness in some way shape or form. In what I have learnt and found personally, a lot of this all comes back to a single source. This post takes a first pass at some commonality and introduces a path improved happiness. Let’s…
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Stress Management
The hardest thing about writing about stress management is context. I have been working away on a stress management program for a while now and the recent increase in people seeking out ways to deal with stress has prompted me to finish it off. In this article I wanted to provide a bit of an…
Keep readingMaking Self-Care Stick
I was sure I wrote about this but perhaps it has just been sharing the mountains of information and articles already circulating. But there is a challenge with self-care I am noticing; the info and articles just touch the surface and rarely land in a way that creates solid change or technique. So I thought…
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So what is counselling and therapy
So I recently did a bit of a deep dive on a few common psychotherapy approaches. I thought I would share some of that info to give people an idea about what counselling actually is. In particular this article will focus on CBT, which is provided via Medicare here in Australia and is quite popular…
Keep readingOur Narrative
The more I read the more weight I place on the impact and change possible in our lives from understanding and adjusting our own thinking. There is a major blocker to learning and applying Soft Skills. It’s not intelligence… it’s how you think about yourself. You may have read articles about ‘your narrative’ ??? Nearly…
Keep readingUnprofessional behaviour from management
There are going to be times when the person you work for, or someone else higher than you in an organisation says or does something that you wouldn’t expect from a leader. This article explores the manager-subordinate relationship, expectations and techniques to work through those times. What is unprofessional behaviour? Some examples that come up…
Keep readingImproving your day – building equanimity
I learnt this practice a while back and have found it to be a very effective way of taking the day’s challenges as they come. The practice will assist you become more resilient and to remember that “this too will change” 🙂 Before you watch the video below, let me give you a little background. …
Keep readingBody Language
Communication is made up of many things and you may be surprised to learn that verbal communication is estimated between 20-50% of all communication. That is what we hear or say is not even half the message being sent or received. Here’s a quick overview on what to look for and how to apply it.…
Keep readingBuilding resilience
Here’s a great article from Daniel Goleman on using mindfulness to build resilience against challenging situations, people and stress in general. http://danielgoleman.info/2011/05/04/resilience-for-the-rest-of-us/ The mindfulness practice has a long and solid history not covered in this article but as a practitioner I can definitely swear by the results. Daniel also draws our attention to the amygdala…
Keep readingNaikan
Came across Naikan this morning, a relatively simple activity which has studies supporting its benefit to significantly improving happiness. The simplicity, quick duration and proven results make it a pretty appealing practice. Results included awareness of other’s viewpoint, feelings of love, appreciation of life and sense of fulfillment. Performed daily the Naikan practice is…
Keep readingNonviolent communication
Have you been through one or more of those communication courses where they teach you all about “”I feel this when such and such happens”” ? Rather than judgments, accusations etc like “”You always ignore me!””. Here’s an enhancement to that approach which takes it down a level or two. I have found it to…
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