During the winter months of May and June, special Mental Health & Wellbeing sessions are being held on Thursday evenings as part of our Libraries After Dark program at Watsonia Library.
Join Annette Subhani from New Pathways Coaching & Education, who will help you to see your inner strengths and plan manageable steps for wellbeing. There will be 4 sessions, and each will explore a different aspect of mental health and wellbeing. Participants will leave with practical insights to enhance feelings of fulfilment, life balance, health, and holistic wellbeing.
Join one session, or more, or all four sessions. Register to confirm your spot for the sessions below!
Sleep: The Miracle to Mental Health & Wellbeing
Thursday 11 May, 7 pm to 8:30 pm at Watsonia Library
Are you getting enough sleep? How can you wake up feeling fresh and ready for the day ahead?
This workshop uncovers the science of sleep, the power of your natural ‘body rhythm’, and how sleep allows for the healing of the heart, mind, body, and spirit. Participants will leave with new insights and steps to change sleep habits, along with a personal Sleep Diary.
Navigating Stress & Anxiety with Holistic Approaches
Thursday 25 May, 7 pm to 8:30 pm at Watsonia Library
Do you often feel anxious, worried, or have overwhelming emotions?
The good news is you don't need to continue to live with stress, extreme feelings, and anxiety. This session will explore factors causing stress, uncover everyday strategies to move past negative emotions and triggers, and give you key coping strategies to improve your holistic wellbeing.
The Stories We Tell Our-Self - Empowering us with Awareness
Thursday 8 June, 7 pm to 8:30 pm at Watsonia Library
Your mind is a powerful tool that is busy telling us stories to help us succeed and feel good, but sometimes these stories can make us feel inadequate.
In this workshop, unpack the power of awareness, learn to understand your emotions, learn to see choices that are often hidden in our storytelling, and uncover holistic strategies to enhance your overall mental health and wellness.
Balancing Dynamics of 60+ - Wellbeing & Planning for the Future
Thursday 29 June, 7 pm to 8:30 pm at Watsonia Library
During this special workshop participants will explore some of the challenges and joys of life at 60-plus. Themes covered will include the power of laughter, choice, overcoming isolation and regret, managing emotions, holistic wellbeing, and planning for the future.
Register Here
If you can’t make it to the sessions, our collection has many items for you to browse and borrow that can help you improve your wellbeing.
Here are a few to get you started!
The science of sleep : stop chasing a good night's sleep and let it find you by Heather Darwall-Smith
Humans are biologically programmed to sleep - and by interrogating the factors that might impede this innate instinct, we can make changes in our lifestyles and find our way back to good sleep.
Ready for Anything: how to build resilience and cope with daily stress by Samantha Boardman
Daily challenges can build up and overwhelm us, but by connecting with others, engaging in challenging experiences, and contributing to something beyond ourselves, we can build vitality and feel alive, energised, and ready for anything.
Minding your Mind by Professor Ian Hickie and James O'Loghlin
Also available as an eBook (Borrow Box).
Minding Your Mind is an exploration into everything you've ever wanted to know about how the mind works, and the thoughts and emotions that steer our lives. It offers practical strategies on how we can understand, change and improve our mental health.
Wellbeing Magazine
Also available as an eMagazine.
WellBeing is the world’s leading journal of natural health and living and offers inspiration for a way of life that is authentic and soulful. Reportage reviews the latest developments (or revived ancient practices) in natural living, and in-depth articles both challenge and inspire pragmatic action in the real-world balance of work, life, family and community.
The Open Focus Life: Practices to Develop Attention and Awareness for Optimal Well-Being by Les Fehmi and Susan Shor Fehmi
How you pay attention affects literally every moment of your conscious life, so learning how to be flexible with your focus can profoundly change how you respond to everyday challenges. The Open-Focus Life shows you many ways of paying attention and coaches you through common everyday stressors to show how to shift out of modes of attention that exacerbate negative feelings and into modes of calm and balance.
The Ten Steps of Positive Aging: A handbook for personal change in later life by Guy Robertson
The Ten Steps of Positive Ageing challenges and debunks the inaccurate and negative attitudes that may be contaminating your outlook on getting older and provides a clear, practical road map for exerting more choice and control over the ageing process. The Ten Steps of Positive Ageing provides you with the keys to a happier and more fulfilled later life.