Counselling Conversations with Julie

Family violence is not one particular experience and may include a number of different forms of abuse, control, and/or violence. It can include physical, sexual, social, emotional, psychological, verbal, spiritual, technology-facilitated, and economic abuse.

Family and domestic violence occurs in all ethnic and cultural groups, in all kinds of relationships and families, including heterosexual and same-sex relationships, and against older people and people with a disability.

Getting Help

If your life is in danger, contact emergency services on 000 immediately.     

1800 RESPECT: 1800 737 732

Lifeline —13 11 14 

MensLine Australia —1300 78 99 78.

Relationships Australia — 1300 364 277

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Some days just getting out of bed can be difficult, not just physically but also mentally. We all know and recognise how regularly exercising our bodies can keep us physically healthy. However, exercise can also be attributed to a mentally healthy mind.

Research demonstrates that people who exercise regularly have better mental health and emotional wellbeing. Exercise research also suggests that physical activity can be as effective as antidepressants or psychological treatments to help in treating anxiety and depression. 

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Perfectionism is a trait that can focus on your accomplishments or how you look. A healthy dose of perfectionism can drive you to be self-motivated and overcome adversity and help you achieve success. 

When your perfectionism is in an unhealthy space it can become a hurdle to achieving success. Being successful requires a certain amount of putting yourself out there to take risks and challenges, however unhealthy perfectionism will have you focused on avoiding failure, so you don’t try new things or even start or attempt new challenges.

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Is there such a thing as a fair fight? Does it depend on which way the fight is resolved, or who is the perceived winner? Can you let the fight go if you do not think you have won, or does animosity and hurt feelings rear its ugly head in every fight? Do you repeatedly go back to the same fights, topics, and issues? 

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We find ourselves encountering bullies at certain points in our lives. While we often believe that bullying is most common in children during childhood, unfortunately, this is not the case. Bullying does not stop when you become an adult.

Research has found that adult bullies are usually motivated by the same things as child bullies and often do not consider themselves bullies. Bullying is about power and control, exerting their will over another.

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Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a mental disorder that can occur after an individual has experienced or witnessed a traumatic event, series of events, or set of circumstances, this can also include hearing about it. 

It can be experienced as an emotionally or physically harmful or even life-threatening event that might affect their social, physical, mental, or spiritual well-being. 

The symptoms of PTSD can be immediate or after a delay of weeks or months. Post Traumatic Stress can occur in all people of any age, ethnicity, nationality, or culture.

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Learning about self-talk is important because it greatly impacts how you feel and what you do. Positive self-talk can be supportive and beneficial, it can motivate you to try new things, and it can be hopeful and optimistic talk. On the other hand, it can be negative self-talk that undermines, challenges your decisions, is pessimistic, and focuses on the negative and it also can erode your self-esteem and confidence. 

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Have you noticed in friends, family, or relationships couples can appear to bring out the worst in each other? Many friends, family, or couples find themselves in this type of situation and when things go too far, the relationship starts to enable the other’s bad habits, behaviours, or vices; this might be a sign of codependency. 

Through a codependency triangle lens, also known as the drama or trauma triangle we will see how it coexists in toxic relationships. 

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Polyamory is a philosophy that embraces the understanding that it is possible to fall in love and have relationships with more than one person at the same time, in an open, honest, and ethical way. A polyamorous person might be open to having one or multiple romantic partners. 

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Self-esteem is how you see or form your opinion of yourself. People with healthy self-esteem like themselves and value the things they have achieved in their life. When we have healthy self-esteem, we tend to feel positive about ourselves and life in general. Having healthy self-esteem enables us to have resilience and be able to deal with life’s ups and downs. When we are struggling with low self-esteem we feel unsatisfied, and unhappy and tend to see ourselves in a more negative and critical light most of the time. 

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