World Mental Health Day is October 10. According to Mental Health Australia, 1 in 5 Australians are affected by mental illness. This year Mental Health Australia is encouraging all Australians to make a personal promise to improve their own mental health. #lookafteryourmentalhealthaustralia Too often we ignore our mental health and yet it is all part of our total well-being. In the past, speaking out about our mental health was taboo and many suffered in silence or worse. Finally, today we…
The effect of being unorganized and surrounded by clutter also has an effect on our minds and bodies. It can also affect other areas of our lives without us realising it. Have you ever walked into a room and wanted to walk right out? The…
Do you have times when you feel that there is just too much going on in your life? I felt this way last Monday. I looked at my calendar and every day had several appointments or commitments and I just felt overwhelmed. Also, during…
Gratitude and Self-care, two words that I feel are losing their impact yet are so important to living well. Over the last six months in particular as COVID-19 has affected our lives, it has tested our ability and strength to find things to be…
When the isolation and social distancing guidelines were enforced I observed that many of us, and I include myself here, went to the extreme to fill our days with activities to beat boredom and hopefully reduce stress. We discovered the wonders of technology, joining…
COVID-19 has certainly taken over our lives and I can feel that after quite a few weeks in isolation many of us are feeling a little edgy. I heard on the radio yesterday, that online shopping in the areas of arts, crafts, active wear,…
Staying connected to maintain our mental health and well-being is important especially as we age. Keeping in touch with friends and family gives us the opportunity to talk, share our problems, enjoy a laugh or take the focus off our problems and we can…
Life can be serendipitous at times can’t it? My next guest in the Ageing Well, Living Well series is my very good blogging friend, Debbie Harris from Deb’s World. When Deb sent her post to me a few weeks ago I had it scheduled…
Self Isolation and Social Distancing have become the normal way of life at the moment as we combat the spread of the COVID-19 Virus. There has also been panic, chaos and increased stress and anxiety surrounding us. So how do we cope? What processes…
Do you procrastinate? You need or want to do something but keep putting it off. You start to feel guilty because you aren’t ticking off the box as completed and it starts to morph into something that you just can’t or don’t want to…
