Personal Health and Selfcare Archives - Melbourne Building Works

New Year’s Resolutions

Any time you have a moment that feels like a division of time, your mind does a special thing where it creates a sense that you have a fresh start – Katy Milkman As we move closer to 2023, it’s very common for many of us to assess the year that has past, and to [...]

Simple Steps to help Minimise Holiday Season Burnout

Yes, Christmas/Holiday burnout is real. The Christmas break is supposed to be a chance to recharge our batteries, spend time with family/friends, take a short trip or holiday. Yet for many of us, perhaps most of us, the “festive Season” feels like a battle between time management, personal expectation and dealing with unresolved family issues. [...]

The 12 Tips of Christmas

Following on with our Festive Season themed blogs for Dec 2022, today we’re offering you our 12-tips-of-Christmas – which should help you navigate the summer-parry season, with a few less regrets 😊 Tip #1 Party Rules Thank the host, when you arrive, for the invite and leave tip for the wait staff (if you’re at [...]

Controlling Negative Reinforcement.

November 19, 2022
in NDIS Builders, Personal Health and Selfcare
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Community,Family,NDIS

We have all heard, and used, positive reinforcement. It’s a very important aspect of learning, self-acceptance, and personal image. However, for every positive message, there are 100s of negative messages. We are bombarded with negativity in school/work (low exam scores, employers who think it’s motivating to share everyone’s sales results, etc.), and on every single [...]

Finding the Strength to leave an Abusive Relationship

From the outside, it would seem simple, your partner is abusive, you pack your bags, get in the car, and go. But life is rarely that black and white and numerous factors play into finding the courage to leave an abusive relationship. For the purposes of this blog post, we will be primarily focusing on [...]

Gaslighting: The New Narcissist Tool

Many of us have heard, or even used, the term “s/he is acting like a narcissist” often without understanding the meaning, or what qualifies as narcissistic behaviour. On today’s post we will consider Gaslighting as the latest in narcissistic weaponry. But let’s first qualify the labels. Narcissist: Narcissistic Personality Disorder (NPD) is condition where there [...]

MULTI-TASKING for Personal Sustainability

From the moment we wake up, we are multi-tasking. We are brushing out teeth while turning on the kettle and getting the kids out of bed. We are having a rushed breakfast, while checking the weather report, or the traffic report, or both. We are also somehow making time to braid our daughter’s hair, while [...]

What was left in PANDORA’S BOX?

Everyone has heard the tale of pandora’s box, and how it is never to be opened. What some of you may not know is, the story tells us, that, when everything had escaped from Pandora’s Box, one thing remained HOPE. Hope is a unique concept that only humans understand. While animals feel fear, stress, anxiety, [...]