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…
Last Thursday was the day the World Health Organisation had set aside for World Mental Health Day. I’ve written often about the subject of mental health as I believe we need both mind and body to be healthy for ageing well and living well.…
Midlife mental health is often affected by menopause but life in general can affect our mental state at any given time. So how do we know if what we are feeling is normal or something more serious. How are we alerted to family or…
Staying connected for good mental health 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 even helps take the focus off our problems and we can take…
Maintaining good mental health means accepting that we will get stressed or anxious from time to time. That is natural and it only becomes a problem if the feelings build and become so overwhelming that we can’t cope. Finding ways to relax our mind…
What we eat can affect our physical and mental health. Eating a healthy well balanced diet not only provides the energy we need to keep healthy but some foods actually help our ‘mood’. We need to nourish our mind and body for good…
As part of World Mental Health Day, I will be publishing a series of short posts on Midlife Mental Health & Wellbeing each day for the next week. Mental Health is such an important topic with 1 in 5 Australians suffering from mental illness. …
According to Mental Health Australia, 1 in 5 Australians are affected by mental illness. October 10 is World Mental Health Day and this year Mental Health Australia is encouraging all Australians to make a personal promise to improve their own mental health. Too…