Art of Life Counselling

https://theconversation.com/australians-understand-depression-so-why-dont-we-get-anxiety-49198

http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/origin-of-Halloween.html

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/are-you-raising-a-boy-or-a-toxic-man/

http://www.ted.com/playlists/9/all_kinds_of_minds?utm_campaign=social&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_content=playlist&utm_term=social-science

https://www.sane.org/get-involved/people-like-us

http://www.macleans.ca/society/health/how-your-brain-heals-itself/?utm_content=buffer85543&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Struggling with weight gain has been difficult for me over the past three years. Before I began to take Seroquel I carried a healthy weight for 48 years. Over a six month period I piled on 16 kilograms and despite exercising more regularly, drinking no alcohol, soft drink, juice or tea and coffee, my weight has plateaued at 88 kgs. For the first time in my life I am now classed as obese but worse still is the fact that my cholesterol is high and I have a heightened risk of type two Diabetes. This is a dilemma that many face and can be the cause of relapses in mental health due to people choosing to not take their antidepressant medications. With the help of my doctor and pharmacology education I am now attempting to lose some of this unhealthy weight. I have learned that Seroquel not only increases my appetite but that It also decreases my metabolism. What this means for me personally is that firstly - my body is telling me that I need more food / energy that I actually need and the...

http://beyondmechanicalpain.com/pain-in-children-what-role-do-parents-play/

http://startsomegood.com/clnc

 This powerful speech by Mental Health Peer Support Worker Frances Skerritt, gives an insight into my new role.

http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2707312

http://bigthink.com/videos/vincent-felitti-on-childhood-trauma

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/activist-films-about-women/

Waiting my daughter to come out of spinal surgery  after being hit by a car. 21/3/15 I have been feeling quite ill for the past three months or so, nothing overly serious but it makes for a trying life. This seems to coincide greatly with Hartman's conformation of guilt to his sexual, psychological, spiritual and emotional abuse against me when I was aged between 8 and 11. After the initial feelings of relief and elation I seem to have crashed spectacularly, more so than I ever have in my 51 years as a conscious being. American scholar, Joseph Campbell describes in his Hero's Journey describes a pattern of narrative that throughout history has played out in religious ritual, myth, story telling, drama music and psychological development. Examples of this can be recognised particularly in the Star Wars epics in which George Lucas acquired Joseph Campbell as an advisor all the way back to Homer's Odyssey, the story on which Star wars was first based.  http://dar...

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/the-white-man-in-that-photo/

https://www.sane.org/mental-health-and-illness/facts-and-guides?gclid=Cj0KEQjwy92wBRCl7trx4PaIo8EBEiQASPhtC3DljPRcid6EnHCdrYXzfIvOZIds9SBMaYUErGe3rKMaAk148P8HAQ

http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/today-i-rise/

http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-power-of-the-doodle-improve-your-focus-and-memory-1406675744

http://www.starweekly.com.au/news/sexual-offence-reports-rise-in-hobsons-bay/pub/maribyrnong_hobsons_bay/

http://www.filmsforaction.org/takeaction/a-gentlemens-guide-to-rape-culture/

http://www.parents.com/parenting/better-parenting/positive/what-to-say-to-kids/ John and I with our 7 kids 15 years ago. Yes we have had our moments but any great relationship takes work. We are still growing and now have 2 grandchildren.

http://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/an-indigenous-approach-to-healing-trauma/

Post traumatic stress disorder can present a variety of difficult experiences for those who are under it's grip. My responses to the childhood trauma and PTSD have been hyper-vigilance, nightmares, flashbacks, difficulty in social situations, confusion of thought, inability to relax in crowds, dissociation, numbness, disconnect from the body and over thinking which have lead to overwhelming tiredness. A new experience had developed over recent months since the recent arrest of Brother Bernard Hartman, the man who sexually abused me as a child. I have struggled being alone in my home. In the past I have really enjoyed having some me time. I would paint and draw, listen to music, read, garden and whatever else I fancied, but during the past 5 months, noises and thoughts seemed to become louder, time seemed to loose meaning and my focus became very serious, almost macabre. I seemed to hold a fatalistic view of the world that was magnified when I was on my own. I felt as though I was s...