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5 tips for relaxation
Because 10 tips is too much hard work. Returning to work in the new year and noticing that it kills your chill? Let's talk relaxation....
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Jan 6, 20182 min read


Achieve your mental health goals across 10 sessions!
Make the most of your 10 Medicare rebated psychology sessions
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Dec 20, 20222 min read


Give The Kids A Chance: putting Provisional Psychologists on the mental health menu.
Undergraduation day in 2019. I didn’t sleep the night before but I was buzzing with excitement all day. I had also received my acceptance...

Naomi Midgley
Mar 9, 20226 min read


A note on bulk-billing
At Own Mind we seek to provide mental health support to all. Not just any support, the best possible therapy that is based in evidence...
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Jul 6, 20212 min read


Living Kintsugi
He is tall, broad, and fit. If we weren’t such good friends I’d call him handsome. He certainly looks the Infantry type. He is educated...
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Feb 23, 20212 min read


Delayed Trauma Reactions in Veterans
First things first. I don't buy into the broken Veteran narrative. In fact: The majority of veterans do not have a mental health...
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Feb 1, 20214 min read


What is Moral Injury?
No single definition has been agreed so we offer the following “perpetrating, failing to prevent, bearing witness to, or learning about...
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Nov 24, 20204 min read


My lessons from trauma
When I met my partner I found out that even the broken can be loved. I was deep in trauma often waking crying out but believing in my...
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Nov 6, 20201 min read


Shake up your life: how to change your own perspective
Do you find yourself using the phrase: I/we are so unlucky? What this immediately tells me is that you are focusing on things outside...
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Nov 6, 20202 min read


Consider your relationship... with alcohol
When life gives you lemons, do you make lemonade; drink a bottle of wine or punch a hole in the wall? All three of these activities are...
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Nov 6, 20202 min read


Mindful Moments: with your baby
Parenting young children is a busy time, a stressful time and a worrying time. Gratefully there are many wonderful moments too but they...
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Apr 3, 20201 min read


Corona Coping
If I could narrow it down to two tips for wellbeing during this time they would be: 1. Routine 2. Social Support #ROUTINE : People who...
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Mar 31, 20201 min read


ADF Transition "it's complicated"
The beginning I'm a veteran. As a Psychologist in the Army I served on multiple deployments across many countries including the Middle...
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Feb 25, 20204 min read


Choices: would you like sh*t sandwich with that?
Crass as the term is, the notion of a sh*t sandwich is one that comes to me regularly. I first heard it when I was in the army and...
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Feb 18, 20204 min read
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