Perinatal depression and anxiety is costing Australia $877 million annually according to a PwC (PriceWaterhouseCooper) analysis prepared for Gidget Foundation Australia and the Perinatal Mental Health Consortium. This is supported by the findings of the recent National Working Families survey undertaken by Parents at Work &...
Amanda Gordon discusses how Postnatal Depression and Anxiety can come to any new mother...
Keren Moran and her partner, two mums from New South Wales, couldn't find enough quality books for their young daughter that illustrated families like hers. Some families have really important grandparents, some have twins or multiple kids, some live in big blended families. So she...
Jeanie Baxter strives to move beyond the boundaries set by the early death of her mother. This year, I am older than my mother ever was. I am living in time that she never experienced. I watch my eldest daughter move into her mid-teens and know...
What do you do if you think your child has a mental illness?...
Paula Murphy comes to realise that her daughter is being bullied at school. She would often cry herself to sleep. Do you know what question I ask my daughter every day after school? It is not, ‘Were you the best in class today?’ It is not,...
A highly sensitive person herself, therapist Heidi Gaspar feels that the trait is a delight. Being highly sensitive certainly has its challenges but a glass-half-full approach lets me respond to opportunities. An Orchid-Dandelion metaphor by two psychologists in 2011 suggests two distinct sensitivity patterns, the more...
A little-known form of child abuse - parental alienation - is tearing up Australian families and denying children the love of both their parents. Melbourne dad Stan Korosi hasn’t seen his 18-year-old daughter for 10 years. He went through a difficult divorce and was horrified when his...
A dark gnawing secret replayed on Anne-Maree Brown's mind until motherhood made her call ‘scene’ on her past. For most of my young adult life, I kept a secret. A dark, gnawing secret that loomed large as the adult world approached. I was raped – a...
Sexual abuse of a child is the last taboo. People don’t want to know about it, and they most certainly don’t want to believe it could ever happen to their child. I will never forget the moment I found out my little girl had been...
