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Studies have found that exercise reduces anxiety, improves motivation and increases general feelings of well-being. So how can you use exercise to take care of your mental health while at the same time raising funds and awareness for breast cancer? The answer: The Mother’s Day Classic.
Read more in this guest post by Claire Waddington, PR & Media, Women in Super & Mother’s Day Classic Committee.
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Emotional resilience refers to our ability to 'bounce back' from challenging or difficult situations. It is our ability to respond to demanding situations with a level of persistence and emotional control. As such, there is a need for us to implement simple yet effective strategies on a daily basis in order to ensure we remain resilient. Here are some of those practical strategies.
Read more in this guest post by Tony Bradford, Managing Director at Centre For Corporate Health
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Don’t get too carried away with the latest Generation Y rumours; relating to, and supporting, young people in the workplace isn’t as daunting as it sounds.
Read more in this guest post by Madeline Hawke, Content Producer at ReachOut.com
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In part one of this two part series we made the observation that five years ago discussing mental health simply wasn’t done, particularly in the workplace. Can you imagine what would have happened if you’d raised the issue of mindfulness or meditation? Summon the sniffer dogs immediately.
Read more in this guest post by Doug Robb, Managing Director at Communovate.
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There are many people with schizophrenia who accomplish amazing things and who would be considered incredibly high achievers with or without the illness. My sister isn’t one of them. Like many people with schizophrenia she plateaued out and has lived slightly outside the mainstream every since, never accomplishing the stratospheric heights expected of her when she was accepted into the conservatorium of music at only 16.
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If this article had been written five years ago it may have been a very different story. Mental health simply wasn't on the radar. Talking about it in the workplace? Are you mad?
Read more in this guest post by Doug Robb, Managing Director at Communovate.
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Even though the workplace seems to be a major place where mental health issue begin, it is also a perfect protective factor to good mental health. Most of us spend a significant amount of our waking hours at work, and it is also a perfect place to meet new people, forms genuine relationships, feel a sense of connectedness, purpose and self-worth – all these protectors of mental health. Taking all that into consideration and the fact that suicide remains the leading cause of death for men up to age 44, perhaps a new kind of conversations need to happen at workplaces across Australia.
Read more in this guest post by Ehon Chan.
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