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Instinctive movement, that inner fire, is what I call primal energy. It’s the life force that fuels our strength, emotional regulation and creativity. When we reconnect with it, we don’t just move better — we live better. Primal energy isn’t mystical; it’s biological and deeply human. It’s the natural current of energy that flows through […]

I’d been walking past it for weeks. The grey linen MV Skintherapy beauty bag sitting quietly on my bathroom bench, patient and unhurried in a way that I absolutely was not. Every night I’d glance at it and think, tomorrow. Tomorrow I’ll do it. Tomorrow when I’m less tired, when my baby goes down earlier, […]

You will spend about 90,000 hours at work in your lifetime. Research published by RMIT University in 2025 indicated that more than 90 per cent of workers have experienced incivility and that it leads to reduced performance, burnout, employee turnover, and financial cost to employee and business. In a paper published in the journal Stress […]

Five-year-old Emily stomped through the front door after school, tears streaming down her cheeks, sobbing, “All the kids at school hate me.” Her mum Cass was dumfounded. Emily had mates, didn’t she? She’d animatedly chatted about her new friend Kaylah over breakfast that morning — claiming she was her “bestest friend”. If your child is […]

Dear Rachel, I’ve just found out I’m pregnant and I’m so happy, but one of my dearest friends is going through IVF and hasn’t had success. I feel torn between celebrating and protecting her feelings. How do I tell her in a way that’s compassionate and doesn’t create distance between us? Congratulations, what beautiful news. […]

What’s not top of mind for many people is that a number of familiar daily struggles are classic signs of iron deficiency. Persistent fatigue, restless sleep, anxious moods, palpitations, brain fog, heavy periods, hair loss, joint aches and mood swings — which we tend to normalise as just part of being human in the modern […]

Of the world’s environmental challenges, one of the most urgent is deforestation. It does not receive as much attention as it deserves and rarely makes the news headlines. Since peaking in the 1980s, its incidence has fallen, but it still affects about 10 million hectares of land per year. It also represents somewhere between 12 […]

Fitness is so universally recognised as a desirable trait that the word “fit” has become a slang term meaning “attractive”. And yet … according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, 66 per cent of adults over age 18 are either overweight or obese. The Australian Bureau of Statistics figures from 2023 regarding physical […]

Like many people, I spend a lot of time online. And by online, I mean scrolling on social media. Platforms that used to feel very personal, filled with the lives of my close friends and people I knew, now seem dominated by reels of people I’ve never met, showing me how wonderful their lives are. […]

Wellbeing reader Mikhailla Fitzgerald always considered herself the lucky one. Then, at 23, she lost her three-day-old son to Group B Strep. Here she reflects on how grief and pain can coexist with luck, purpose and a beautiful life. I’d always considered myself the lucky one. In life, I had been somewhat privileged through the […]