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Rest for Weary Souls
As lockdown drags on in Australia’s major cities many of us are feeling increasingly fatigued. Not just fatigued at the lockdown but fatigued physically and emotionally as well. A recent publication by the Australian Psychological Society has described “…
Dr Rebecca Loundar

Wellbeing

Rest for Weary Souls
Wellbeing

Rest for Weary Souls

As lockdown drags on in Australia’s major cities many of us are feeling increasingly fatigued. Not just fatigued at the lockdown but fatigued physically and emotionally as well. A recent publication by the Australian Psychological Society has described “…
Wellbeing

It’s Time to do Away with ‘Guilty’ Pleasures

In my role as a clinical psychologist and provider of professional and pastoral supervision, I am regularly confronted with states of distress. The presentation looks nearly always the same. Heightened levels of anxiety, sorrow or psychological pain, and…
Gratitude in the Storm

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Gratitude in the Storm

Gratitude is a powerful thing, there is now an abundance of scientific evidence that the simple practice of writing down 3 to 5 things that you are grateful for each day for 21 days, will rewire your brain to think more positively and increase your happi…
Overcoming Disappointment

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Overcoming Disappointment

With life, inevitably comes disappointment. Large or small, they all cause pain. The dream job does not eventuate, a relationship falls apart, an exam is failed, a shock medical diagnosis is received, expected goals are not achieved … the list for all of…
Let’s Talk about Gender, Race, and Offenses

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Let’s Talk about Gender, Race, and Offenses

Identity has become a contentious issue across the globe. Public debates on race, gender, faith, and other ‘identity’ variables have heightened our awareness not only of our own identity but also our orientation toward others who are ‘different.’ What la…

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Social scripts re-written in a social distancing world

The 5:30AM alarm rouses me from my sleep. I acquiesce to its demands. Completing my ablutions and dressing with haste, I join my husband in our drive to the station where we park the car and join the throng of early commuters to catch our train. I sett…

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You Were Made for Relationship

When asked to consider what is most important in your life, most people would say it is the relationships they have that mean the most.  When asked what is most stressful in your life, many would say relationships! Relationships are the source of the …

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Why is Memory Important?

Introduction Memory is important because without it we have no identity. There is a South Korean movie called A Moment to Remember in which the main female lead played by the very beautiful Son Ye-jin falls in love and marries a man, played by Jung Woo…

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Christ-Centred Identity

Introduction In my roles as a Christian author, Primary School Teacher and Girls Ministry leader in my local church, I am in the fortunate position to speak with many young people – especially young women. Recently I was talking with a young girl who …

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Technology and the “Good Life:” An Intercultural Exploration

Introduction The rapid development in tools for communication such as mobile phones, tablets, and a myriad of Internet-based communication platforms has indelibly shifted our understanding of communication. Luders (2008)[1], for example, highlights th…

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Language, Power and Childcare: Is the Language used in the Debate regarding Childcare limiting our …

One of the crowning ideas in George Orwell’s ubiquitous 1984, was ‘Newspeak’. A new language that limited the extent of what people could say, and therefore think.  If you could reduce language to only the words that you want the public to say, then y…
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