Relationship Breakdown

Relationship Breakdown

  Having spent the last twenty-plus years working in a community service that deals almost exclusively with women’s issues, one of the most common presenting issues is relationship breakdown. And while each individual situation is different, there are many common...
International Womens Day

International Womens Day

I am a veteran of International Women’s Day. When I first started working in women’s health over twenty years ago, I had never heard of it. I was born in the 60’s, and rural Queensland at that time wasn’t exactly caught up in the Women’s Liberation movement. My mum is...
Pleading Guilty

Pleading Guilty

Women are amazing. I know this because I am one; frequently, when I look back at what has been achieved in what feels like a day but is actually a week, I am amazed. Cooking, cleaning, shopping, working, dropping off, picking up – you know the drill. Oh, and can you...
Christmas Crackers

Christmas Crackers

It’s the end of the school year for many, heading towards a break from work, maybe, some time off looming on the horizon. It’s the season for drinks with friends, a time to catch up over a leisurely BBQ or a seafood lunch. It sounds so civilised, doesn’t it? Swan from...
Feathering an Empty Nest

Feathering an Empty Nest

End of year exams, study, part-time jobs, formal, sport, school lunches, clean uniforms, getting a driver’s licence – raising young adults is hard work and often more time consuming and anxiety inducing than raising toddlers. Or juggling knives. Blind folded. But you...