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.
There comes a moment in every person’s life when they are forced to face themselves. Not the version they show to others, but the deeper, more honest truth underneath.
Complete the entire circuit above, then repeat it a second time to hit the full rep count. Good luck!
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.
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.
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