The Art of Healing

sometimes the hero stumbles and falls right off of the page sometimes the princess rolls her eyes and says “i don't want to be saved” sometimes the dragon needs rescuing and the villain aches to be helped sometimes, in the darkness the lost boy finds

FRONT COVER IMAGE: Mysteria ARTIST: Antonio Mora WEBSITE: www.mylovt.com FB: antonio.moradiez.1 INSTA: a.morartworks Thank you to all the writers, organisations, and people we interviewed for their time and contributions to this magazine. And Thank Y

It has just been so wonderful over the last couple of months to finally attend a few events. There is nothing like being face-to-face with people. And I find when I am attending industry events, when you are talking with someone who is also passionat

The Connecting Communities to Care project aims to design a community-based social connection model of care targeting isolated older people with chronic conditions living in the South East Melbourne Primary Health Network area. The four-year pilot is

Researchers asked 1,423 American adults to rate how likely they were to forgive themselves for the things they did wrong and forgive others for hurting them. The participants also answered survey questions about how they had slept in the past 30 days

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A new study from the University of East Anglia highlights the neuro-protective potential of cranberries. The research team studied the benefits of consuming the equivalent of a cup of cranberries a day among 50 to 80-year-olds. They hope that their f

The 30,000 hectare Neds Corner Station is an important cultural landscape on Ngintait Country. It was run as a grazing station from the 1840s and was purchased by Trust for Nature – with help from donors and the federal government – in 2002. The land

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In a first, a group led by the Potsdam Institute used a quantitative food and land system model to gauge the effects of degrowth and efficiency proposals on the food sector's greenhouse gas emissions. They found that combining a dietary shift, emissi

Most research on measuring human biomarkers, which are measures of a body's health, rely on electrical signals to sense the chemicals excreted in sweat. But sensors that rely on perspiration often require huge amounts of it just to get a reading. Som

Queensland Brain Institute (QBI) Professor Peter Silburn AM said his team, together with Neurosciences Queensland and Abbott Neuromodulation, have developed a remote care platform which allows patients to access treatment from anywhere in the world.

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Known as the Make Room project, the collaboration will see a Melbourne City Council-owned building at 602 Little Bourke Street converted into safe and supported accommodation for those experiencing homelessness and sleeping rough on the city's street

Here's a scenario so common that it applies to nearly 92 percent of older adults with cancer: An individual comes in for treatment and reports taking several medications that might include a drug for high blood pressure or heart disease, an antidepre

Mom, I'm feeling nervous,” my 12-year-old daughter shared one night as I tucked her into bed. “Are you just having nervous feelings or are you thinking about something?” I asked. “Ukraine,” she replied. I asked if she wanted to talk about it. She did

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In the early part of the twenty-first century, data suggested that adolescents and young adults had strong psychological wellbeing often doing better than the generations immediately above them and about as well as seniors. However since then, eviden

If you have doubts about yourself, you're not alone. In fact, clinical psychologist Ronald D. Siegel has heard doubts from many of the clients he's worked with over nearly 40 years - and grappled with them himself, despite being an assistant professo

Dr Laurence Kemp is an experienced general practitioner and medical leader with additional skills in medical education and a special clinical interest in medicinal cannabis. Working as Head of Medical for Cann I Help, he has developed a network of cl

In the late afternoon - I had just sat down for the first time that day to have a bite to eat - the intensive care unit paged me. The artificial heart patient was still bleeding. My colleagues were unsure if it was due to a clotting problem or a surg

So Naz, can you tell us a bit about your own health to start with, because you actually have a condition called Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS). What is this and how does this affect your life and mobility? Ehler-Danlos syndrome is a group of hereditar

It took me two years to fully get over this experience. On the specialist front I saw two endocrinologists, a nutritionist and three dermatologists. The third dermatologist finally listened to me. I had found out from the endocrinologist that my cort

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To laugh is to risk appearing a fool, To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement, To expose feelings is to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas and dreams before a crowd is to risk their loss

There are five core aspects of EQ: • Self-knowledge • Self-control • Social skills • Empathy • Personal motivation for self-growth The depth and breadth of these key components might seem intimidating, but increasing your EQ doesn't need to be compli