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The Auckland Street Choir of around 30 members posing in front of the Pitt St Methodist Church

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Matters Of The Mind

'I’ve been in dark places: The Auckland Street Choir is my reset button'

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Sepia and black and white illustration of a man sitting alone in a room on a work desk with a table lamp. The room is filled with filing cabinets pushed against the walls.

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Capitalism and Mental Health

Capitalism and mental health part 2: disrupting the capitalism within

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Green and red boxing gloves covered in dollar bills

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Capitalism and Mental Health

Capitalism and mental health part 1: gloves-off capitalism is bad for your health

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Photograph of Shelley Flam in front of a pastel blue background. She dawns a black dress and a lovely smile.

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Bipolar disorder is what I have (not what I am), and I will decide who to tell

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Photograph of Dave Vass wearing a blue jacket, brown shorts and a hat, while sitting on a rocky mountain.

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Matters Of The Mind

Conquering mountains of adversity: Dave Vass's journey from tragedy to triumph

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An AI generated image of a tree with a green brain for its leaves. A person waters it allowing it to grow.

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From passive to participant: unlocking solutions for symptoms unresponsive to psychiatric drugs

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An AI generated image of an old man providing therapy to a young lad. The sit in front of each other beside a large window which holds a scenic mountain view.

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Matters Of The Mind

How to go to therapy: when to start and how to prepare for the journey

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A close up photo of a person sitting in a grass field while the sun sets

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Matters Of The Mind

How to manage stress and anxiety: simple techniques to soothe inner turbulence in real time

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This is an AI generated image of a brain constituting various greens, veggies and fruits that are essential for humans.

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Matters Of The Mind

Professor Julia Rucklidge champions nutrition as key to mental wellbeing

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Matters Of The Mind

Prisons as healing centres: Fritzi Horstman's call for a mental health-centered approach to criminal justice

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Coercive kinks: how my ex trafficked me, and how I survived

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A person wearing red clothes sitting with their legs cross folded with bowls in front of them.

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Jewels of wellness wisdom from my Indian ancestors

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A spider web with small water droplets hung to it like pearls on a string.

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After the storms: how to cope with climate anxiety

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Beauty lives wherever you are willing to find it

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Psychedelics and Mental Health

LSD: when the bottom of the brain “turns the top of the brain into a great big TV screen”

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An illustration of a woman undergoing Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Therapy with the TMS device on her head.

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Transcranial magnetic stimulation (gently!) jump-starts a depressed brain

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A canvas painting with a blue background, yellow and red complimentary squiggle along with swatches of green, white and deeper blue on the sides and the bottom of the canvas.

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Art therapy: there’s art, then there’s art that feels good, and then there’s art therapy

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Most beautiful child of the Indian patriarchy

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Mental Health Changemakers

Home care in Singapore: who cares for the caregivers?

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Yolo Akili Robinson wearing a sweater of pink, white, and grey stripes and metal rimmed glasses, standing and looking at the camera.

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Mental Health Changemakers

'Much of the care in the US isn't designed for marginalised or exploited folk,' says mental health activist Yolo Akili