Mother of Many.

Taking care of sick kids may be very different from taking care of six kids, but Margaret Colwell has both down-pat, in her busy lifestyle. This forty-nine year old wife and mother of six, a Woronora resident and part-time General Practitioner, began her career working with underprivileged teenagers, and now as she reaches her fifty-year [...]

What is the Sutherland Shire doing about Self-Esteem Issues?

This year marks the first anniversary of the Sutherland Shire Council’s ’Esteem Project’, an initiative put in place to help those suffering from life-controlling issues. It may only be a start, but the Council, along with organisers from Mercy Home Australia, are working toward providing help for young women suffering from self-esteem issues, eating disorders and depression. “The Sutherland [...]

Living in poverty of self-esteem.

Self-esteem issues affect over half of the population, some more than others, but living with appearance anxiety and low self-confidence has become a way of life for Jane* since adolescence.   When the now nineteen year-old Sutherland Shire resident hit puberty, she experienced some of the worst years of her life, including a horrendous eating [...]

Annonymus but Familar

A Great excerpt from writings by Jane^.   Miss X* is a statistic. She is apart of 70 percent of adolescent girls who don’t participate in normal every day activities due to lack of self-worth. She is one of the third that think they are overweight. She makes up the half that have fasted, gone on diets, [...]

Get Involved in Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea!

Concerned Sutherland Shire residents will raise funds for cancer research this week, through a host of ‘Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea’ functions. Along with generous citizens, facilties such as Waterbrook Retirement Apartments and Hazelhurst Art Gallery will also donate time, space and money toward the cause across the 21st to 23rd of May. Peter Wells, manager of Waterbrook, [...]

Promoting Jelly Babies Month: Help Stop the spread of Diabetes

This May marks the 10th birthday of Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation’s (JDRF) Jelly Baby Month, an initiative to help find a cure of type 1 (juvenille or insulin-deprendent) diabetes.  To celebrate the occasion Jelly Baby themed merchandise will pop-up in stores, schools, shopping centres and workplaces around Australia. This year JDRF hopes to raise $1 million for [...]

Putting Expertise to Good Use: Local hero both here and abroad.

Family man and Miranda resident, Dr Ron Sommers paid little attention to a heart-attack that prematurely forced him into retirement in 1988, sparking a 20-year interest in Papua New Guinea’s health system.   Sommers, with his nurse and wife, Rae, have been making the journey out of their own pocket to Kundiawa in New Guinea [...]

Blunt and to the point of mental health.

People often say that, in a democracy, decisions are made by a majority of the people. Of course, that is not true. Decisions are made by a majority of those who make themselves heard – a very different thing. – Walter H. Judd – Peter Neame, mental health expert and author of four books, has [...]

White Wreath: Action to Prevent Another’s Grief

When Fanita Clark lost her 19-year-old son to suicide, she turned tragedy into a campaign to prevent further grief, establishing White Wreath Association Australia. The now nine-year-old organisation will once again attempt to educate millions of Australians on the 29th of May, as they commemorate those who previously took their lives in this country with National [...]

Words to Ponder

Franklin P. Adams Health is the thing that makes you feel as though now is the best time of year.