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What does Anna Karenina have to do with International Women’s Day and women’s...
I was instantly and totally smitten with Anna Karenina when I first started to read the novel in my mid-teens. Tolstoy’s book set in the 1870s enveloped me in a whole new world, introducing themes of...
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Palliative Care: Seeing a higher view
At the end, it was an ‘uplifting’ experience. However, a couple of months ago I felt ill-prepared for the emotional turmoil that was sure to surface and the decision-making that would be required. I...
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5 TIPS TO ALL ROUND BETTER HEALTH
1. Hope Hope is the stuff of change, recovery and healing, according to Dr Shane Lopez, author of the new book Making Hope Happen: Create the Future You Want for Yourself and Others,.“Hope is half...
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Expect health! Expectation can be a self-fulfilling prophecy
© Stock photo/Glowimages “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can”, exclaims Jay Gatsby (Leonardo DiCaprio), the hero of Baz Luhrmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, now...
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NAIDOC Week spearheads spirituality question
© Stock photos/Glowimages Beloved Australian ABC gardening show host, Peter Cundall, is now retired. But when interviewed by Scott Stephens on Life’s Big Questions a year or two ago, he equated...
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Women opt to take a different sort of health pledge
Women find a spiritual approach for wellbeing © Glowimages Picture this. A young mum powering around the front lawn behind a lawn mower, baby in the pouch on her chest screaming his head off. Reserve...
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Care that brings deep change
Dementia Dogs help the “deeply forgetful” to reconnect © Glowimages – model used for illustrative purposes People are living longer and enjoying better health, and today’s 90 year olds are mentally...
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Movember declares all men have capacity for better health
Spirituality positively impacts men’s health © Glowimages – models used for illustrative purpose I’m re-posting this 2012 piece, along with some tweaks, for Movember 2013. It’s been published in this...
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Spiritual intelligence now the gold standard for success in business
SQ: The gold standard for success in business © Glowimages – models used for illustrative purpose It was entertaining watching advertising executive and media personality Tod Sampson try to ramp up his...
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Let’s celebrate the ‘spirit’ that’s disabling limitations
Celebrating the ‘spirit’ that disables limitations © Glowimages “Break barriers and open doors: to realise an inclusive society for all”, urges the United Nations in its brief for International Day of...
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Want better health? Resolve to ‘think positive’ in 2014
How to become a change-agent in 2014 © Glowimages Have you been following The Paradise on TV? Maybe you went to see the second movie in The Hunger Games trilogy or The Book Thief during the holiday...
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Full recovery from PTSD is possible
PTSD sufferers address spirituality to rebuild lives © Glowimages Last week’s ANZAC Day commemorations highlighted the best of human conduct – servicemen’s and servicewomen’s courage, mateship, decency...
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Buying or selling? You don’t have to be stressed
At last I’d found the perfect new home after weeks of searching and it ticked all the boxes! The thing was, it would cost every dollar we had and more, and my joy in finding it was causing my...
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The essential ingredients for youth mental health
Mental Health Week – time to talk about essential spirituality © Glowimages The years between 15-25 are frequently a time of questioning and great discovery, but like many others I found them...
View ArticleRemembrance Day: Veterans focus upward and outward to heal
Today’s commemorations highlight the best of human conduct – servicemen’s and servicewomen’s courage, mateship, decency and willingness to lay down their lives for country and comrades in battle. At...
View ArticleIs there a daily diet that curbs perfectionism, eating disorders?
Four ‘trick or treaters’ knocked on our door on Halloween evening. Somewhat unprepared and surprised to experience this novelty in Australia I managed to locate a few sweet treats for each of them, and...
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Make a game-changing New Year’s resolution
While some of us are still dealing with the influx of visitors, festivities and sun-soaked holidays, in the back of our minds is the niggling thought that 2015 has already begun and now is the time to...
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Rethinking Easter can lead to better health here and now
You don’t care much about the Easter message except for the chocolate bunnies and the four-day holiday weekend? Or does Easter make you fixate on the difficulties of life and the troubles in this...
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Freedom from pornography is essential to health and happiness
This year Youth Week in NSW announced their partnership with NSW Health for National Youth Week 2015, running from 10-19 April. Their website advises that governments across Australia are committed to...
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Honour ANZAC Day: Support a spiritual rebirth that beats PTSD
Veterans beating PTSD through spiritual rebirth @Glowimages This week’s ANZAC Day commemorations in Australia, New Zealand and in Gallipoli, Turkey, highlight the best of human conduct – servicemen’s...
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