Am I experiencing a PTSD response to my trauma?
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental health condition triggered by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event. Recognizing...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Apr 23
- 2 min
How EMDR helps us to process difficult and traumatic memories and experience relief from symptoms of anxious distress.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy stands out as a transformative approach in mental health treatment, offering...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Jan 8
- 5 min
Slow it down and change your focus to create peace and find meaning
Viktor Frankl an Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor was also the creator and developer of Logotherapy, a psychotherapy based on...
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Kate Lithgow -
- May 14, 2022
- 4 min
You are freer than you think!
What a life enhancing thought! We can often feel overwhelmed or trapped by negative thoughts. And yet, they are just that, they are...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Jan 21, 2021
- 3 min
What to look for when selecting Mental Health Support and Counselling
With so many options available it is easy to believe that all counselling services are equal and all do essentially the same thing. Read...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Nov 26, 2020
- 3 min
Take a deep breath and RESET
Every so often, when the stress of the day to day builds, or things start to overwhelm from every direction, it's time to just take a big...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Sep 17, 2020
- 2 min
Its time to shift the focus. Its time to feed your soul.
I dont know about you, but here in Victoria, after 190 days in isolation, restriction and lockdown; after 190 days of constant talk of...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Jul 14, 2020
- 3 min
Coping with Covid 2.0
Covid-19 is a very real threat to our health and wellbeing in 2020 - a year that started with so much promise and instead kept us in a...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Apr 1, 2020
- 4 min
Self Care. Beyond the catch phrase.
It seems everyone is talking about self care these days, but what is it and why is it important for me in my daily life? Self-care refers...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Apr 1, 2020
- 5 min
5 Ways to Handle Uncertainty - or Fostering HOPE in times of change.
All of us have times of uncertainty, times where we don’t know if we will have a job or enough money coming in; if our relationship will...
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Kate Lithgow -
- May 18, 2019
- 3 min
Exercise your way to good mental health
Every day is a new start and a new opportunity. Will you start today?
The decisions we make today determine how we live tomorrow.
Just do it
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Kate Lithgow -
- Apr 17, 2019
- 5 min
"Just get over it already" !! Secondary losses and why grief is a life long endeavour
There is a lot more to grief than meets the eye, just like the tip is the only thing you see of the ice-berg, the only thing most people...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Apr 17, 2019
- 7 min
Ten things you may not know about grief and losing a spouse - and how you can help a grieving friend
Losing a spouse suddenly, especially at a relatively young age is many peoples worst fear and some peoples most stark reality. And yet it...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Jan 30, 2019
- 4 min
The Power of Change
The level of our success, or our failure is rooted in our habits - whether good or bad. Change is constant - it is all around us. If it...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Dec 30, 2018
- 4 min
Live Your Best Life in 2019
With 2018 drawing to a close and 2019 just 2 days away I thought I would take the opportunity to give 10 simple tips to help you live...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Dec 30, 2018
- 9 min
14 Things you may not know about losing a partner and how to help others through loss
Losing your partner suddenly, especially at a relatively young age is many people's worst fear and some people's most stark reality. It...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Dec 29, 2018
- 4 min
Burnout Prevention for a New Year Part Two
Read Part One Here In May 2013 Harvard Business Review published an article titled Creating the Best Workplace on Earth, in which it...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Dec 29, 2018
- 4 min
Burnout Prevention for a New Year Part ONE -
Identifying the underlying causes of burnout You've done it! You have reached the end of the year, you have worked super hard in the last...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Dec 22, 2018
- 2 min
Grief and Holidays - tips for managing grief during Christmas and the New Year.
It's that time of year again. The time when all the world seems happy and yet those grieving the death of a loved one can find themselves...
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Kate Lithgow -
- Dec 12, 2018
- 4 min
Its ok to be different. Holidays after loss.
To some this may look a little... small? SAD? A little silly even. And to some it is just "Not Enough". But to me, this represents a...
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