We all know about them, some of us even use them, but did you know you can utilise opportunities to fly free using credit card offers that will benefit you? Many credit cards offer substantial Free flybuy points when you get their credit card. We obtained an AMEX card a few months back when my son had a Columbia trip to represent Australia in World Flying Disc championships. The offer [...]
What does it really take to be a great leader? Are they born or are they made? One person who knows a thing or two about what it takes to be a real leader is Richard Branson. Walk through any of the Virgin offices around the world and you'll really struggle to find somebody who has seen the company's Founder raise his voice when the going gets tough. High pressured [...]
Business and organisations, both large and small, have such a variety of personalities working closely with each other day in and day out, it is common to experience difficulties between staff or between staff and management. As a registered Mediator, I have done a considerable amount of work Mediating within workplace environments. When I am contacted the issue usually consists of two or more staff unable to work together in [...]
In some respects, we haven't really advanced much as a species since the time of the caveman. If you met a threatening animal in the forest, your whole body would prepare you for the flight or fight mechanism, this is what we now call a Panic Attack. This comes from the adrenaline hormone that is released from the adrenal glands. What happens when adrenaline is released quickly into our body? [...]
While likes on social media represent how popular we are, it does nothing to fill the void in connection with other humans. Our kids are now suffering from loneliness while in the midst of our social media phenomena. Higher numbers of them are experiencing depression as their natural ability to connect is being eliminated. How do we encourage and teach our youth that social media is only one form of connection? [...]
The latest London news immerses us in concern. How do we manage our own fears and our children’s concerns, anxiety and fears? Not only are we privy to everything occurring within the world, so too are our children. Young children know their way around the internet and come across many news stories. They can watch, read and hear all about world-wide events almost instantaneously. The problem we are finding is [...]
There are many misconceptions around attending therapy or Counselling sessions. I have below 8 reasons we may all need Counselling Therapy at some time in our life. It is not about simply sitting on a couch speaking to someone, or at least it shouldn’t be. Our need to talk and discuss our feelings and emotions often has a stigma of the person being mental or weak. The truth is, those [...]
Article written about Virtual Hypnotherapy in Samara Magazine, and front page no less. Dr Karen Phillip from Virtual Hypnotherapy is a Counselling Psychotherapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist. So, Karen, tell us about your business… I am a Counselling Psychotherapist and Clinical Hypnotherapist. I commenced working as a Psychotherapist some 15 years ago and built up my private practice to become one of the leading business therapists in the country. My work has [...]
We all seem to chase it, we all really want it, but it seems if you look at the statistics, we often can’t find it. It is Happiness. More people than ever before are on anti-depressant medication, more people are stressed, divorce rates continue to climb, family courts are overflowing, aggression is escalating yet we all strive for this hunt for Happiness. The problem seems to be our definition of [...]
The recent tragic story of our superstar swimmer Grant Hackett pushes us to realise the difficulty so many people experience when life changes. While most of us are not Olympic athletes trying to reclaim a new identity and purpose in life, so many of us suffer from identity loss if we lose our job, are made retrenched or even retire. Human beings need a purpose, and this is different to [...]
Here is an article I consulted and contributed on for WYZA, discussing how Social Interaction Improves your Health as you Age, with the story by Dominic Bayley from WYZA Life. Social isolation is an increasingly prevalent problem in Australia today. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) estimates that one-quarter of people over the age of 65 live alone. This figure is expected to rise by at least 52 per cent by 2021. [...]
The end of the year usually finds us waiting in trepidation for the required and timed ‘Feedback’ interview. When someone says to you, “I just want to give you some feedback”, we often cringe and expect negative remarks on how we could have done something better than we did. We regularly need to give ‘feedback’ to staff and employees yet this word can be frightening, negative and makes us assume [...]
