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What is the Cost Spent Per Mental Health-Related Worker’s Compensation Case?
Did you know that current estimates indicate that at least $292,770 is spent per mental health-related workers’ compensation case according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (2018) Psychological injury claims can be a result of work pressure, harassment and bullying and exposure to workplace violence. Safe Work Australia also reports that the outcomes for employees who […]
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Do You Really Need a Corporate Health and Wellness Program?
Do you really need a corporate health and wellness program? In the work that I do, I see clients after they have sustained an injury and many have attributed it to stress in the workplace. Whether your staff are chronically stressed or have an unhealthy eating culture, it can have a negative impact on their […]
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The One Thing You Need To Do to Stay Motivated When Working from Home
Only the other week at 3.30 am I was shuffling my kids into the shower, wrestling my 4-year-old to wash his hair because his 1-year brother had projectile vomited into his face. Between cleaning up vomit and gag-worthy poo-ey nappy, my work plan for the week went straight out of the window. Although I’m grateful […]
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The Importance of having Structure and Routine with inbuilt Flexibility as a Working Mum
When it comes to the night-time routine with putting our kids to sleep, hubby looks after our eldest and I take care of the baby. As of late, hubby has been struggling big time with an injury so he’s been on bed rest and I took care of both boys last night. I ended up […]
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How to Develop the Ability to Process Your Emotions
Emotions can be all-consuming. You only need to look at a toddler to see the intensity of an emotion when something goes wrong. It doesn’t matter how small or insignificant it may seem, for them, it’s the end of the world. I remember reading that kids are just little people with big emotions. They’re emotions […]
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The ABCs of Focus and Becoming More Productive
This week I was featured on the Women On Business blog discussing 3 decluttering hacks you can apply at work for a more productive day. I mentioned in this post that there’s a myth that humans, particularly women are great multi-taskers. Although yes we can multi-task but at what cost? A study of adults with […]
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How to take back control of your life
It’s 10.59pm and I’ve been staring at my computer on what to write because I got caught up with blogging the “right way” and went into a big rabbit hole of self-doubt. Can you relate? Well this is my blog, so I can blog anyway I like and so I’ll just keep typing and hope […]
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How to move forward when you’re overcome by fear
Today I had to get an x-ray for a tooth extraction. I had to remove any jewellery and wear a protective belt around my waist. The lady was really nice but I was so nervous about a machine radiating these energy wavelengths around my head that my mind started thinking about things like what if […]
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The daily meditation practice for women with no time
You’re probably reading this now because you already know the benefits of having a daily meditation practice or have heard that meditation could help you manage your stress levels but feel like it’s an unattainable goal. Even the phrase “daily meditation practice” already seems time consuming and daunting to say the least, right? But what […]
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What to do when you feel overwhelmed and stressed
In the past week, I have been feeling so overwhelmed with what is going in my life right now that I haven’t been present when I’m with my children. As I was breastfeeding my son to sleep at 7pm at night, my mind was racing when I should have been just enjoying the quiet peaceful […]