October is Mental Health Awareness Month in Australia so I thought I’d share my journey with mental health to demonstrate the importance of the need for a perception shift in what mental health means. Like everything I talk to clients about its best to be raw and real to take full ownership of what is and how you can change it. So here is my very real account of how society influenced my attitude towards mental health and how developing my awareness changed everything.
Read MoreHow many times have you participated in exercise where you felt better afterwards? Many, right? This effect is proof that mental health is also physical. For generations we have spoken about mental health as if it’s a separate issue but it isn’t. Society knows that when we exercise we feel better, our mood is better, our productivity is better and our success is greater, so why don’t we treat our mental health as part of our physical health?
Read MoreIn society we have an increase in technology, we have an increase in convenience and we also have the means to increase our ability to skip regular exercise. Regularly skipping out exercise often makes us feel as though completing one workout is some sort of insurmountable task. The reality is, doing 10,000 steps is a very simple thing to get done. Read on to find out our strategies for adding exercise to your day.
Read MoreThere are multiple people in the corporate world right now including coaches who suggest that work-life balance doesn’t exist but at Julia Trask Coaching we believe this attitude is just another way to ensure that you don’t take time for yourself and instead focus too heavily on one aspect of your life. This is why we often talk about life-work balance because we believe that life happens when work doesn’t take over the living and that it in fact is not elusive nor far fetched at all but essential for maintaining a healthy lifestyle.
Read MoreMost of us know by now that Facebook does what it can to get information about us and then deliver interest-specific content. But do you know how this defined information can impact your mindset?
Read MoreTwo weeks ago, I decided to break up with my mobile phone. It was necessary, it didn’t understand how much it was intruding on my time. Apple wanted to intrude on my conversations with others, my meal times, my privacy in the shower and toilet, it even wanted to be the last one I said good night to and the first one I saw in the morning. Apple was so damn needy and I bought into it. I hated it.
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