Associate Professor Thomas Niederkrotenthaler shares how positive stories have a role in suicide prevention. He also shares how Logic’s 1-800 song led to an increase in calls to Lifeline. Continue reading How a hip hop song from 2017 potentially saved lives by increasing calls to a suicide prevention hotline
At 19, Addison Brasil had already lost his brother to cancer and his father suicide. After being in a car accident that left his close friend dead and his own walking ability limited, Addison learned of the importance of channeling grief, trauma, sadness, and anxiety as a man in a hyper-masculine society. Continue reading “Addison Brasil: Tethering an online community for men’s mental health”
Victoria has spent the last 15 years as a holistically oriented psychotherapist striving for emotional and mental balance for everyone. Continue reading “Victoria Rivera: Overcoming self-sabotage”
Kim Cavallo noticed during a yoga class that she was distracted messaging on her phone which led her to creating the digital wellness app ‘lilspace.’ Continue reading “‘We’re just here in this moment. This is all that matters.’ How Kim Cavallo is helping others build true happiness and authentic human connections through digital wellbeing”
Crippling anxiety and depression had driven one woman to almost end her life on three occasions but found refuge through fitness. Continue reading “The astonishing story of how one woman is helping other women after fitness saved her life from suicide”
Stephanie Bendixsen, or ‘Hex’ as she is known in the gaming industry, turned her childhood love of video games into a career as an Australian television presenter. However, whilst her career was taking off her mum’s health was deteriorating with dementia. I spoke with Steph about her career as well as how she is channelling the emotions from the loss of her mum into raising awareness and funds for dementia in the 2018 City2Surf.
Continue reading “What 2018 City2Surf competitor Stephanie Bendixsen learned about love from her mum with dementia”
For people who have lived through or are currently in their twenties would know that this can be a turbulent, but rewarding decade. A decade filled with investing into our values, interests, relationships, aspirations and exploring what this world has to offer us with child-like wonder. Continue reading How millennials are navigating the waters of adulthood
It has been more than three months since my best friend’s sister Amber has been gone. Gone from the very existence of life. The giants in her mind were raging storms that she could no longer avoid. Continue reading Finding hope in forever