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.
Today, inspired by a question from Jon in Victoria, we are talking about diabetes.
These are challenging postures that stretch and strengthen the whole body and challenge the mind. As you breathe in each posture, notice how you feel.
A tasty recipe from Southern Queensland Correctional Centre.
This series of upper body movements is both uplifting and calming, and is great preparation for meditation.
It wasn’t a topic of conversation between us inmates, even though it should’ve been. Hep C is a serious virus.
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.
It is a common misconception that sadness is ‘weakness’ and that to feel sad somehow undermines one’s ‘toughness.
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.
Grief does not discriminate as to whether the loss is ‘good’ or ‘bad’ for you; it is about the absence of something you have held close for a long time.
Naloxone is a medicine that can be used by anyone to reverse a potentially fatal opioid overdose.
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