I got an email from a client last Friday that gave me great joy. When she first signed on as a client with me a year ago, she was a mess. She was on medication for chronic depression, she hated her job, her family was neglected and she completely lost any sense of focus and [...]
When I was in my early 20s, I lived in Crows Nest; walking distance to North Sydney. I went to a local gym one Wednesday afternoon and whilst doing my workout with my training partner at the time, we discussed the idea of a mid-week bushwalk. By the end of the workout we had two [...]
If you turned the TV or the radio at lunchtime today you had a choice of watching The Great Health Debate between Kevin Rudd and Tony Abbott or… (I wonder at the logic of all media presenting the broadcast simultaneously!) Anyway: Each audience member has a dial that they use to indicate whether they agree [...]
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I’ve seen a lot in the media about teenage depression lately and it has caused me to again think about this difficult issue. Most of the stories, like this one in the Australian, ‘Depressed Children Not being Diagnosed’ result from recent activity by BeyondBlue promoting their draft Clinical Practice Guidelines on Depression in Adolescents and [...]
We dropped young James off to catch the school bus in the morning and as I was reading the destination boards on the buses that passed by, a thought occurred to me: Most bus companies use route numbers to show where the bus will go, (on top of the bus will be the number 336 [...]