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Dieting Disguised As Healthy Eating Is A Disorder
Losing weight isn’t rocket science. If you put too little into the body, it burns fat to compensate. I worry that what we are truly witnessing here is the progression of a disorder.
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Tragedy at Bondi Junction: Who’s really to blame?
None of the current conjecture matters to the victims of Bondi Junction. They won’t witness any hasty amendments the government implements to knife laws, mental health care, or mall security. They won’t see the wreaths of flowers left in their honour, the tears and lifelong sadness of their families, or their children grow up.
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Why Do Anti-depressants Still Get Such a Bad Rap?
I question the responsibility and wisdom of sensationalising the side effects of anti-depressants and potentially alienating the very people whose lives might be saved by them.
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The True Meaning of “Friends with Benefits”
If your friends don’t make the time to service their relationship with you, let them go to make room for the ones who invest A friend of mine who has an enviably wide circle of friends tells me she has an inner circle of only five special friends. Each represents a finger on her hand,…
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Does Googling “How To Get Rid Of A Turkey Neck?” Make Me A Bad Feminist?
I am a feminist who feels strongly about sexism, ageism, and double standards, so I can’t fathom why this genetic aberration (that was clearly inherited from my father), bugs me so much.
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Do I Really Have To Give Up Drinking?
My choice to drink less has nothing to do with “seeing the light” in terms of my health, or because I’ve managed to avoid the dangerous lure of addiction that runs through my family tree. It is not even based on the advice of my doctor – although I’m sure she would back me wholeheartedly.…
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Ageing: Is 10 More GOOD YEARS Too Much To Ask?
The thing about the ageing process is that one minute you’re cruising along feeling relatively young for your years and the next you are using hand cream. And yet, despite my lifelong battle with health anxiety, death scares me somewhat less than the journey there and the “not knowing” exactly how and when my finale…
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Mental Illness: Why Love and Acceptance Must Be the First Line of Treatment
With love and acceptance – what I believe should be the first-line of treatment for people with mental illness – people like my son feel less isolated, judged and ashamed. Though “tough love” may be the gold standard approach to care for some mental illnesses, it is a risky choice and one that doesn’t necessarily…
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Trusting the Journey: The Secret to Happiness in Middle Age
It is only now, in middle age, that I am finally accepting that I don’t possess the superpower (or indeed any superpower) to fix everything – no one does, not even those with the money to buy whatever they want or need. Money may be able to buy rockets, but it can’t buy you back…
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Travelling Solo In Middle Age: Why It’s A No-Brainer
Travel doesn’t rate highly on my husband’s agenda. A Cancerian with an abject terror of finding himself more than five kilometres from our suburb – which he likes to refer to as “the safety zone” – I realised that the only way to give him a gentle nudge back into the outside world was by…
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I’m A Feminist, So Why Won’t I Let Myself Age Naturally?
I’m not proud to admit that I’m not grown up enough yet to come out as an old person. If I was a good feminist, I would feel more proud of this ageing body of mine and what it has achieved, rather than falling prey to the ridiculous beauty standards expected of women my age.
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Here’s How I Overcome My Self-Doubt About Writing
My self-doubt is related to my fear of rejection – the curse of many writers – and after a decade in the industry, there are still many times I get the jitters when I file an article or publish a new post.
LOUISA SIMMONDS 