April 24, 2016, Sarah Knapton Marriage has long been thought to be beneficial – both in sickness and in health. But a study suggests that widows actually suffer less stress and frailty than wives whose husbands are still alive. The findings are in contrast to previous research which showed marriage has a protective effect on
Read moreBy Sarah Farnsworth, ABC News, Fri 18 Dec 2015 A 21-year-old Melbourne woman who challenged an insurer for failing to honour her travel insurance says she hopes her court victory will prevent others being discriminated against for having a mental illness. Key points: Ella Ingram cancelled a trip to US because she was too mentally
Read moreAlain de Botton The Age. July 8, 2016 It’s one of the things we are most afraid might happen to us. We know the horrors well enough and often devote inordinate efforts trying to skirt them. Yet, however hard we may try, it’s an error we’re highly likely to make all the same: we too
Read moreLucia Ciciolla is a postdoctoral research associate at Arizona State University. Her work focuses on child psychology. Suniya Luthar is Foundation Professor of Psychology at the Arizona State University, and Professor Emerita at Columbia University’s Teachers College in New York. The joys of motherhood quite literally wax and wane over time. If you had to guess, you
Read moreBy Cassie White, 13 July 2018. As a trainer, I consider it a personal failure if I’m unable to motivate a client to make important health and lifestyle changes. Sure, there are people who just don’t care, but I can spot them from 100 metres away. I’m not talking about them. I’m referring to the
Read moreBy Cathy Johnson, 13 October 2016 Being awake at an ungodly hour, your mind a tangle of anxious thoughts, is a wretched experience. Whether you’re thinking about work or family worries, the events of the day, or tasks you face tomorrow, it tends to kill off the chance of sleep. It’s a common problem, with
Read moreSanchita Sharma, Hindustan Times, Dec 18, 2016 US-based Indian-American Paul Kalanithi was 15 months away from completing his training as a neurosurgeon at age 36 when he was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. The cancer was inoperable, he was going to die. “When Breath Becomes Air” is a memoir that begins with him examining
Read moreBy Olivia Willis for Ladies, We Need To Talk, posted 27 May 2018. It’s remarkably common, and yet barely spoken about. Up to one in four pregnancies in Australia end in miscarriage. But an unwritten social rule that says we should keep pregnancy news quiet (at least for the first 12 weeks) means that many
Read moreJennie Dear, Sep 9, 2016 – The Atlantic My mother and I sat across from the hospice nurse in my parents’ Colorado home. It was 2005, and my mother had reached the end of treatments for metastatic breast cancer. A month or two earlier, she’d been able to take the dog for daily walks in
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