Doctors believe the cancer had only been there for about 6 months. If I’d left it much longer, things could have been much worse. That’s why I now always say: check yourself, and don’t ignore the signs.

When it comes to battling depression, often your thoughts are not your own. These thoughts are an inevitable result of being emotionally overwhelmed (in the case of reactive or situational depression) or as a result of imbalances of neurotransmitters in the brain (in the case of clinical depression).

Getting that kind of help inside meant a lot. There’s not much in here that feels easy, or like people have your back. But this did.

The purpose of this article is to raise awareness of the hold that ‘stuck thoughts’ can have over you; to show you how to notice and identify ‘stuck thoughts’, and how to challenge and overcome them.

A collection of exercises that can be done in a small area of space.

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 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.