According to a new article on MamaMia, women are just not getting a fair go when it comes to media coverage of women's sports.  Did you know that: Read More

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With all those Apples and Blackberries dominating desks, you would think the Australian workplace is brimming with health.  But in a wakeup call to employers, Fruit at Work’s latest National Workplace Health Survey revealed over 85% of Australian workers believe their workplace is unhealthy.  “If we were consuming anything like the quantity of Apples and Blackberries we are using, our workplace would be a whole lot healthier and more productive,” commented Wendy Visontay, Founder of leading workplace fruit supplier Fruit at Work, which delivers fruit to over 4,000 workplaces a week nationally. “We were astounded that almost a third of workers questioned ate no fruit at all and 60% failed to identify how much fruit a day they should be eating for good health”.  Read More

If you've ever thought of shopping as "therapy"... you're probably right! Turns out shopping really does make us happy - it's effective at elevating mood, and it doesn't lead to buyer's regret, research by The Pennsylvania State University shows.  Read More

We’ve all received gifts that just weren’t right, and possibly given some too! Get more for your gift dollars and avoid those ‘Oh, you shouldn’t have!?’ moments with the help of The Art of Gift Giving. Read More

I love my doctor.  Partly because her combined GP and psychology training means she can sort out my anxiety and ailments all in one visit!  But mainly because as a busy working mum, she really gets it.  She gets that we don’t always put ourselves first.  She gets that we're busy. And she gets there are things we really don’t want to do – like having that regular pap smear.  And so she has a process for making sure busy women like me can’t mean to do it, but never get around to it. Read More

95% of people in the U.S. - and many, many Australians too - watch TV or use other technologies such as computers or cell phones in the hour before bed at least a few nights a week. The National Sleep Foundation, which surveys people on their sleep habits, says exposure to light from screens enhances alertness, making sleep more difficult. 60% of respondents experience sleep problems (snoring, waking, not feeling refreshed) every night or almost every night, the organization says. Read More

On 16^th March 2011 Macquarie University’s Faculty of Business and Economics and iConneXX Pty Ltd are bringing together a blend of business, law, risk management, psychology and health experts at the inaugural The Body & Mind Corporate, a strategic workshop to explore the serious psychological and physical health conditions that executive women are experiencing. Read More

I've been saying it for years, and I’ve written in my book Little Wins for Working Women that what modern-day women with successful careers need to do is to get themselves a wife. Or someone to do the cooking, the cleaning, the laundry and all the mundane tasks that eat up your time, stress you out and mean that you can’t focus as much attention on your career as you would like to. Read More

If you needed any more proof that surviving a high stress job is bad for you, look no further than this new study by Harvard University researchers.  The scientists analysed job strain in 17,415 participants in the US Women's Health Study and found that women with high-stress jobs face about 88 per cent more risk of a heart attack. Read More

When I ask people what they do, most say, “I am electrician”, I am a cleaner” or “I am and accountant”.  Many people identify themselves with their profession or their job title. But there is a lot more to a job than that.  Research has shown that the way we feel about what we do, not surprisingly has a significant impact on our level of happiness.  If we can start thinking differently about what we do, perhaps we can come to appreciate and enjoy it more, contribute more, be more productive, or at the very least work out what else we should be doing instead. Read More