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By The MotherMind Doctor I have often been accused of being angry or prickly. I think I always assumed that because I like order, and for systems to function, that everyone else did to. I was constantly surprised by the relaxed or laid back attitude of others. Now, it seems, no one has this ability to relax. On a recent Safari trip overseas, I had periods where there was no reception and was blissfully allowed to stay in the present moment, and focus on what was happe

As a psychiatrist, I spend my days working with people whose mental health is suffering. I prescribe medication. I refer for therapy. I think carefully about risk. That's the work, and I believe in it. But for years, I've also been quietly fascinated by something else: the growing body of evidence for wellbeing interventions that sit outside the clinic — in nature, in water, in heat and breath — and what they might offer alongside conventional care. The research has been accu

A Preview of Groundbreaking Work Being Presented at a National Psychiatry Congress This May When I returned to university as a mature-age student to study medicine, I had three children under ten and a daily commute from Sydney to Wollongong. On clinical placement, a supervisor told me he wouldn't have selected me — insufficient return on investment, he said, given my age, gender, and role as a mother. By the end of the placement, he conceded I had done three times the work o