Ticking off your to-do list feels really good, but the drive to finish a task can undermine your wellbeing and your productivity. © Thea O’Connor You’ve been working on a task most of the morning, and are nearly finished – but not quite. Lunch time arrives, and despite feeling tired and hungry, you tell yourself…
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At the age of 52 I started to experience changes to the way my brain worked, especially in relation to word finding, short term memory and focus. It was very unsettling and at times, alarming. I didn’t realise that these changes were common during the menopause transition and could be considered normal. I had no…
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As a manager, do you ever feel like you are sitting right in the midpoint of an egg timer? You have pressure bearing down on you from your senior leaders, and you feel the demands from your team below? This pressure from above and below can put one big squeeze on your wellbeing. Gallup surveys show…
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While women’s monthly cycle is key to the survival of the human species, it’s anexperience that is often shrouded by silence and shame. We can do better andworkplaces can help lead the way. Copyright Thea O’Connor Over the last few years year, the words ‘menopause’ and ‘menstruation’ have started to beuttered in workplaces – often…
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National statistics tell us that the top four killers of women in Australia are dementia, heart disease, cerebrovascular disease (which includes stroke) and lung cancer. Ask working women what they are concerned about, however, and there is little talk of heart attacks or stroke. Instead, it is the day to day battle with exhaustion…
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If you are feeling really tired right now, you are not alone. I’m currently talking to people in workplaces who are saying that many of their staff are starting the year un-refreshed. They put this down to all demands that COVID-19 created last year: not just the extra workload but the anxiety as well that…
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It’s all very well to tell people to listen to their bodies (I’m discovering), when for many of us, trust in the body has been broken, and we therefore fear it will lead us astray. Are you scared to take an afternoon nap, because you think you will never get up again? Do you think that…
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When you woke up this morning, how did you feel? Refreshed or tired? If you felt tired, was it because you were sick or overloaded at work? Or is there a deeper driver of your tiredness – living in a rest resistant culture? Recently I found myself staring at an advertisement inside a shopping centre that took…
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“I feel ripped off that no one talked to me about it.” [1] “Why didn’t anyone tell me? This is a change of life I was not prepared for at all.” “Before I had my period at 13, I was told some stuff, but no one sat me down to have the ‘time of life’…
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Interoception has a greater impact on everyday functioning than many of us realise. When you are working under pressure – which let’s face it, is most days – listening to your body might be the last thing on your mind. You may, however, want to bump it up your priority list given the latest research…
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