Looking after your mind matters as much as looking after your body. These stories and expert guides cover anxiety and stress, burnout, low mood, grief, confidence and body image, and the everyday habits that build resilience. If you need support, please speak to your GP or call Lifeline on 13 11 14.
This guide is part of our Wellness Guides, where you can find every Women Love Wellness topic in one place.
Anxiety and stress
- Student Debt Stress: How to Help Your Uni-Age Kids Stay Calm About Money
- How to Manage Emotional Triggers and Reduce Stress: Expert Tips to Calm Your Ego
- Controlling Chaos Over Christmas
- Everyone Should Have Controlled Tantrums, Former AFL Player Says
- 3 Tips To Combat The Emotional Effects Of The Strawberry Supermoon
- Three Simple Ways To Enhance Your Emotional Wellbeing-
- Best Quick Techniques To Stop Feeling Anxious Right Now
- How To Reclaim Your Time And Reduce Stress Levels Effectively
- Feeling Stressed? You’re Not Alone… How To Remove Stress From Your Life & Achieve A Healthy Balance
- Anxiety Breakthrough: How To Reclaim Your Inner Calm
- Six Expert Tips To Tackle Loneliness
- Martin Blake Talks Loneliness: The Ex KPMG Chairman Tackling Australia’s Silent Epidemic
- Alternatives To Overthinking: Let Your Heart (And Not Your Head) Lead You To Joy
- Dr Karen Philip Says ‘Don’t Let Christmas Stress Spoil The Season’
- 5 Ways To Keep Your Emotions Balanced When Trouble Strikes
- De-Stress Secrets: 5 Ways To Eliminate The Silent Killer
- The New Wave Of Social Media Anxiety: What Is It And Do You Think You Have It?
- Beating Exam Stress: 6 Essential Tips
Energy and burnout
- Effects of Burnout, and How to Treat It
- Too Tired to Be Healthy? Behind Australia’s Wellness Burnout
- Drained by the People Around You? Four Ways to Protect Your Energy
- The Effort-Free Secret To Being More Creative At Work
- From Burnout to Bliss: Arianna Huffington On Reclaiming Your Health and Happiness
- 5 Ways To Keep Your Energy Flowing All Year Round
- Be Your Best: Motivation Tips That Work
- Five Ways Of Thinking That Could Be Sapping Your Energy
- Energy Clearing In 7 Simple Steps
- How to Avoid Energy Dips & Spikes
- CSIRO Expert On How To Motivate Your Health Motivation
- Five Ways to Get Out of Your Comfort Zone
- How I Supercharged my Productivity by Asking Five Simple Questions
- Mid-year Burnout: How to Overhaul Your Goals Before 2024 is Over
- What Jacinda Ardern Is Showing Us About Burnout
- 5 Cheap, Healthy & Fast Ways to Boost Your Energy Today
- Sam Wood’s Best Energy-Boosting Nutrition Tips
- Best Selling Author Dr John Demartini Tells Us How To Deal With Compassion Fatigue
- 5 Totally Underrated But Effective Ways to Avoid Burnout
- Aussies Waste 12 Days A Year Due To Lack Of Focus. Yes Really
- The Simple Trick To Getting In The Zone & Staying There!
- Kick-Start Your Day With Cameron Diaz’s Energy Tips
Low mood and depression
- Mother’s Little Helpers: Brain Boosters To Lift Your Spirits
- Healthy Ways You Can Manage Your Seasonal Affective Disorder
- Professor Bullmore On How Inflammation Causes Depression
- 11 Tips For Chasing The Blues Away During The Festive Season
- The Link Between Inflammation and Depression
Grief and loss
- Grief at Christmas: The True Story of The 13th Gift and the Kindness That Saved a Family
- What Losing Two Of My Closest People Taught Me About The Power Of Resilience
- Dying To Know: 22 Things You Didn’t Know About Death And Funerals
- How to Support A Sick Work Colleague
- Standing By Sean Abbott, United In Grief
- How to Cope With Grieving For Someone You Don’t Know
- Guide To What To Do When Your Facebook Friends Die
- When Someone Is Grieving, How Can We Help? 8 Tips For Getting It Right
Confidence, self-esteem and body image
- Should You Go to Your School Reunion? What One Writer Learned About Old Wounds
- 10 Steps To Projecting Confidence And Boosting Self-Esteem
- Why Nature Could Be the Ultimate Body Confidence Boost
- How To Regain Self-Confidence After Separation
- Almost Half of Aussie Women Would Give Up a Year of Their Life For The Perfect Body …
- How To Overcome Imposter Syndrome And Stop Feeling Like A Fraud
- 3 Simple Ways NLP Can Help You With Your Confidence And Job
- 13 Ways To Boost Confidence!
- Excuses, Guilt, Self-Sabotage: How To Turn Your Health Around
- The Secret To Instant Self-Confidence
- Simonne Lee: An Easy Guide To Understand The Power Of Self Worth
- Casey Donovan On How She Overcame Her Imposter Syndrome
- 3 Tips to Confidently Cultivate More Meaning in Your Life
- How Do You Overcome Self-Deception?
- New Year’s Resolution! Learn To Like Yourself
- Five Ways To Find Confidence After Illness Or Injury
Habits, mindset and resilience
- Author Hélène Grillot: When Fear Disguises Itself As Personality
- Our Attention Spans are Shrinking. Maybe Our Self-Help Needs to Shrink Too
- Australian Doctors Sound Alarm on Climate-Driven Mental Health Crisis
- Music for Mental Health? This Pianist Thinks So
- The Do’s and Don’ts of Receiving Health and Wellness Advice Online
- <strong>Alter Your Mentality-How To do It!</strong>
- Emine Mehmet: Redefining The Meaning Of Resilience
- Online Hypnotherapy That Works
- 5 Micro Health Habits That Will Change Your Life
- Eat, Move, Think: How To Change Bad Habits Step By Step
- The Neuroscience Behind Changing Your Habits
- 7 Tried and Tested Ideas to Improve Your Mental Health
- Winter Winning: How To Conquer Bad Winter Habits
- Exclusive Extract: How To Change Bad Habits And Make Good Ones Stick
- Clear Your Mind & Detox Your Body Post Christmas
- The Awful Truth: Accepting The Reality To Move Forward
- Life Coaching Yourself – What, When And How?
- Good Advice: When To Take It And When To Run For The Hills
- Starting A Life-Saving Conversation
- When Sh*t Happens (How to Deal With It?)
- 7 Ways To Balance Yourself In Times Of Change
- When Good Intentions Go Bad
- The Importance Of a Strong Relationship With Your Therapist
- Core Beliefs, Mental Strength, Willpower and Habit Formation
- Dr Karen Phillip Poses The Question: The Challenges Of Asking Why?
- How To Get Sacred With Your Boundaries
- Plan B. Author Shannah Kennedy Shares Her Journey To Embrace Change
- The Neuroscience Of Changing Habits
- When The Only Person In Your Way Is You: These 3 Activities Will Move You
- Regret: What Is It And Why It’s Important For Us To Let It Go
- How Hypnotherapy Can Help Fight Addictive Behaviour
- Why Use a Life Coach? Conquer Your Personal, Professional & Relationship Goals & Challenges.
- Sam Wood’s Top Tips For A Restful And Positive Mind
- 10 Tips to Stay Mentally Healthy Over Winter
Mental health stories
- Cat Thao Nguyen’s We Are Here: A Story of Survival, Hope and Belonging
- Meta Launches New AI Safety Alerts to Help Parents Support Teen Mental Health
- Breaking the Silence: The Unseen Battles of Women Who Serve
- Neil Laybourn And Jonny Benjamin On Managing Mental Health During COVID
- How A War Survivor Is Coping With Home Isolation
- A Family Member Has COVID-19, My Business Shut Down But My Mindset Keeps Me Strong
- Lexi Crouch: How I Overcame My Battle With Anorexia Nervosa
- Former Basketball Player And CEO Of The MENtour JuVan Langford On Men’s Mental Health
Mental health in lockdown and beyond
- 5 Top Tips To Help You Avoid A Post-COVID-19 Burnout
- Lockdown Whiplash: How to Mentally Prepare For Things Re-Opening
- 5 Tips to Safeguard Your Health And Your Loved Ones During the Pandemic
- Author Margie Warrell’s 10 Questions To Speed Your Own Recovery From This Pandemic
- How Do We Deal With Grief And Loss During Self-Isolation?
- Why You’re Feeling Lethargic In Isolation And How To Stay Motivated