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, we’re talking about skin, in particular, acne – the annoying pimples you thought would cease once you left the clutches of puberty, and yet, here you are as a 20, 30, 40-year-old still wondering why your skin hates you so much.
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Trouble sleeping is incredibly common, both in prison and on the outside, and can be frustrating and miserable. Luckily, there are steps you can take to help your self drop off.
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.
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