By Cate Grant, updated 26 Apr 2018 Carleon Russell was three months pregnant with her second baby when her nine-month-old daughter Verity died. “I wanted to die, when I discovered my baby dead. I just tried to stop breathing and stop existing,” she said. “She was a healthy, beautiful little girl, who strangled in her
Read moreSome experts think the problem is how doctors and society treat people who hear things, not the voices themselves. Roc Morin, Nov 5, 2014 “The first time that I heard this voice, I was very much frightened,” the prisoner testified. “When I heard it for the third time, I recognized that it was the voice
Read moreAuthored by Jane McCredie, 30 July 2018 IN 2013, a 21-year-old Spanish physics student, Mario Rodríguez, died of leukaemia after refusing a second round of chemotherapy in favour of “natural” remedies recommended by his homeopath. In the wake of his son’s death, Mario’s grieving father, Julián Rodríguez, launched a legal action against the homeopath for
Read moreBy Hayley Gleeson, ABC, 27 Jun 2016, 9:40am The sheen on the world of wellness — of sugar-free this, and gluten-free that — is finally starting to wear off. During a visit to Australia earlier this year, celebrity chef Nigella Lawson gently denounced clean eating and other restrictive diets as unbalanced and unsustainable. “I want
Read moreBy Madonna King, 5th January, 2019 At a school in Perth, a group of teen girls is sitting in a circle, practising breathing techniques. One. Two. Three. Four. “I’ve only got a couple of minutes with them,” a school counsellor tells me later. Why? Because if this cohort can’t learn to slow-breathe in two minutes,
Read moreCoherence Associates Inc. June, 2016 EMDR Therapy has been validated as an effective treatment for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder as evidenced by controlled clinical research studies. EMDR Therapy has consistently shown effectiveness with other issues involving negative memories that create roadblocks and challenges in a person’s quality of life. There are several benefits to EMDR Therapy
Read moreRed meat is good for you; red meat is bad for you. Sugar is killing us; sugar’s still better than artificial sweeteners. Fat is bad; fat is good. It seems like every day there’s a new piece of health advice in the news that contradicts the advice we got yesterday. Add to that a barrage
Read moreBy Claudine Ryan, ABC, Wed 15 Jun 2016. It’s hard not to be upset by the rolling media coverage of an unfolding tragedy like this week’s mass shooting in Orlando, with its graphic footage and heartbreaking interviews of those directly affected. And for children, such news can be difficult to understand. Escaping these big stories
Read moreAnahad O’Connor Published: September 13, 2016 – The Age The sugar industry in the US paid scientists in the 1960s to downplay the link between sugar and heart disease and promote saturated fat as the culprit instead, newly released historical documents show. The internal sugar industry documents, recently discovered by a researcher at the University
Read moreDecember 16, 2013 by Heather Gray Heather Gray challenges us to think about what our sons really need in order to be emotionally literate.– Recently, an important interview with Jane Fonda has been making its way around the web. She’s given two minutes to talk to her captive audience about anything. With candor, authenticity, and
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