Change is rarely easy. When you’re stuck in a pattern and feel you’ve lost control, it can be difficult to see the way forward. But if the stress of a high-performance career, challenging personal relationships or impaired physical or mental health is holding you back, specialised, compassionate treatment can lead you towards meaningful transformation. “Most […]
Month: April 2022
When a harmless habit becomes a problematic vice
Many of us reach for a glass of wine, maybe two, at the end of the day, as a way of coping with stress; a way to take the pressure down a couple of notches. But how do you know when that glass of wine, or something else, is doing you more harm than good […]
Positive masculinity
IT’S so predictable. Every other week we turn on the television and there he is, another tearful, high profile sportsman, politician or businessman apologising for his appalling behaviour. Sometimes it’s a an on-field punch up, other times a drunken grope of a female colleague, worse still an episode of domestic violence. Tragically, according to statistics, […]
Q&A: The Critical Inner Voice
That nagging voice inside your head that tells you you’re not good enough, or worse? It’s called the critical inner voice, an integrated pattern of destructive thoughts toward yourself and others, and it can lead to significant mental health conditions. Raindrum’s clinical director Jane Enter explains. What is the Critical Inner Voice? It’s the voice […]
Changing your genes
Once medical scientists believed that it was only our genes that controlled how our DNA is interpreted. But the fast-moving science of epigenetics is changing a lot of preconceptions about gene expression. According to the Australian Academy of Science, epigenetics is “an additional layer of instructions that lies on top of DNA, controlling how the […]