Warning signs that your teenager has an eating disorder

Warning signs that your teenager has an eating disorder

How do I know if my adolescent has an eating disorder? Teenage eating disorders come in many forms and it can be hard to tell whether or not it is serious. Here are some warning signs to be aware of. Being a parent of an adolescent can be hard enough with all the...

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post-natal Depression & Anxiety in New Mothers

post-natal Depression & Anxiety in New Mothers

Post-natal depression and anxiety is the elephant in the room. Post-natal When a new mother becomes depressed, it affects her and her new baby. Having a new baby is, for most people, the culmination of planning and dreaming. Even if it wasn’t initially on the agenda,...

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Eating Disorder Recovery with Today’s Social Pressure

Eating Disorder Recovery with Today’s Social Pressure

As a society, we are under increasing pressure to do more, be more and have more. This pressure is also affecting our self esteem, how we see ourselves and our physical expectations in relation to the way we look. Some of us strive to be thinner, some curvier or some...

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You’re not imagining it. End of year burnout is real

You’re not imagining it. End of year burnout is real

End of year burnout can feel like you’re limping to the end. Like there’s a chain around your ankles, weighing down every tiny step you make to that distant finish line. At this time of year where workplace closure and Christmas chores collide, it can be a period of...

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You’re not imagining it. End of year burnout is real

You’re not imagining it. End of year burnout is real

End of year burnout can feel like you’re limping to the end. Like there’s a chain around your ankles, weighing down every tiny step you make to that distant finish line. At this time of year where workplace closure and Christmas chores collide, it can be a period of...

“Stop asking me to join your weight loss challenges.”

“Stop asking me to join your weight loss challenges.”

To my friends and family; Stop asking me to join your weight loss challenges. “Oh, how I wish to be thin. To look better in the clothes that I am in. To be a size six instead of a ten.” That is a portion of a poem that I wrote in high school. During that time, I was...

Valentine’s Day, Real Sentiment and Social Media

Valentine’s Day, Real Sentiment and Social Media

It’s February, and Valentine’s Day has rolled around again.  Time for the newly in love to celebrate their excitement and joy, the long-term committed to work on the passion and the sentiment – and those either without partners or in loveless relationships to bemoan...

The world is experiencing ‘Spectator Anxiety’.

The world is experiencing ‘Spectator Anxiety’.

The world is experiencing spectator anxiety… At first, it was the images of blazing fires, charred trees and thick plumes of red smoke descending onto Australian towns, before heartbreaking stories of deaths, species extinction, and burnt homes flooded my newsfeed....

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