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Looking after yourself
Tips for improving your mental wellbeing No matter where in the world you
country in the first few months of the
differently, experts suggest there are
live, chances are you have been im-
new decade. And now, there is not a
a number of steps each of us can
pacted by the difficult start to the
single Australian left unscathed by the
take in an attempt to improve our
new decade.
impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
mental health outlook and wellbeing.
And in Australia we have copped a lot.
The upshot of all this is that quite
Before many of us had even put our Christmas trees out for disposal, we’d battled the effects of ongoing drought
naturally many of us have been left feeling stressed, anxious or a bit overwhelmed.
Practice optimism While it sounds a little far-fetched, science has shown looking on the
and bush fire. As if that were not
But while each of us will feel the im-
bright side of life, with the glass being
enough, flooding ravaged much of the
pact of these most traumatic events
half full as opposed to half empty,
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