Health is a key to resilience. However, good health can be one of the hardest things to maintain in prison.
This section is dedicated to different aspects of physical and mental health, from exercises and yoga, to strategies for dealing with trauma, providing health inspiration and guidance for people trying to keep healthy inside the challenging setting of prison.
We are hardwired to know how to react to danger – when we perceive a threat, our bodies instantly assess it to determine how we should respond.
A collection of exercises that can be done in a small area of space.
This series of upper body movements is both uplifting and calming, and is great preparation for meditation.
A tasty recipe from Southern Queensland Correctional Centre.
It wasn’t a topic of conversation between us inmates, even though it should’ve been. Hep C is a serious virus.
The Australian Injecting and Illicit Drug Users League (AIVL) caught up for a yarn with Esha, a Peer Harm Reduction Coordinator at QuIHN. QuIHN is a service that supports people who use drugs and alcohol in Queensland.
It is a common misconception that sadness is ‘weakness’ and that to feel sad somehow undermines one’s ‘toughness.
All of us have times in our lives when we feel tense, nervous, worried and frightened. We might feel overwhelmed by the thoughts that keep going around in our head or by events in our lives that are facing us.
Today, I sat down with Sarah Brown from She Is Not Your Rehab to discuss intergenerational trauma and the healing work she does with her husband, Matt Brown.
Today I sit down with Jacob Little to have a yarn and share some knowledge about resilience and how he managed his mental health in prison.
Whether we get thrown off balance or find a cooler way of handling such things depends largely on the state of our nervous system.
If you’re feeling tense or stressed, your neck and shoulders may start to hurt because they’re tense too. Use these simple stretches any time you feel tight and uncomfortable or like you could do with an unwind.
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