Are you experiencing christmas stress? Christmas and New Year is promoted as a special time of the year for sharing, gift giving, and celebration. However, for many the romanticized version of Christmas can be the cause of significant emotional dis-stress. Christmas stress for you might be the pressure of finances,…
“Each of the four times I have received a life-altering diagnosis, I have felt like a healthy person who has been accidentally drop-kicked into a foreign country:I don't know the language, the culture is unfamiliar,I have no idea what is expected of me, I have no map,and I desperately want to…
If you are reading this then chances are you or someone you know suffers with chronic pain? If so, you are not alone. In fact a staggering 20% of Australians live with chronic pain. But as you might know pain is only part of the problem, with one in five chronic pain sufferers…
“Self-care is not selfish. You cannot serve from an empty vessel.” ~ Eleanor BrownWhen you became a carer you probably had other commitments, and maybe a job, school, university or parenting. You may have inherited the role with little or no warning or seen it coming for a while.In 2015 there were…
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” ~ Helen Keller.Life with chronic pain can be a roller-coaster of uncertainty and change that disrupts your way of living and being in the world. In fact it marks the end of life as you once knew it –…