The holidays are (hopefully) a time for rest and relaxation. But the sudden transition from working in an office or studying can be jarring, particularly when we don’t have any plans. Our lives can be so wrapped up in our routines that breaking away leaves us feeling...
If you want to get certified in Mental Health First Aid, you’ve come to the right blog article! Obtaining an MHFA qualification is easy, requiring a two-day course, for the most part, followed by a brief examination. The reason it’s so simple is that MHFA, as a...
If you think about physical first aid, you might picture an ambulance or medical team arriving on the scene of an emergency. Perhaps you picture someone performing the Heimlich Maneuver or helping a collapsed person recover by calling for help. That’s essentially the...
Increasingly in the last decade, more workplaces have started having difficult conversations with their employees. The stigma around mental health issues is slowly lifting, and now, many businesses are trying to align their company policies with the new way of...
October is this year’s Mental Health Awareness Month for Australians. MHAM is a Mental Health Foundation Australia (MHFA) initiative and aims to increase awareness around existing mental health conditions, reducing the stigma within environments and communities that...
For many, the idea of buying a home in the next few years seems ludicrously impossible. Rising interest rates and tighter controls for banks around lending larger deposit sums mean home buying is off the table for a lot of Australians. Rising interest rates have also...
