To celebrate Global Running Day on June 1 TIC+ fundraising hero Kerry Riddiford discusses the benefits of running on her mental health as she prepares to tackle an ultra-marathon to raise funds for TIC+. How running has helped my mental health I started running a few years back using the couch to 5k app after…
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TIC+ Counsellor Morgan Koronis discusses the use of creativity in counselling and the power storytelling can have on young people’s mental health in this piece for International Children’s Book Day. An Alternative Means to Expression With a background in dramatherapy, I bring a lot of my own passion for the intentional healing power of creativity…
Alicia Bell, Assistant Psychologist at TIC+, explores the relationship between disordered eating and social media, and the impact it may have on young people’s eating behaviours in her article for Eating Disorder Awareness Week 2022. Within recent years there has been a notable rise in the number of young people demonstrating disordered eating behaviours and…
Janie Dimopoulos considers how we may inadvertently inflict our values on others in the language we use around food. As we approach Eating Disorder Awareness week, I am mindful of practices in schools, which have been introduced with good intentions and with health and wellbeing in mind, that children and adolescents tell us are negatively…
Anti Bullying Resources for Parents and Children In support of Anti Bullying Week Anti Bullying Alliance have worked with Kidscape to produce some helpful resources for children and parents that provide information about bullying, tips about what to do if you’re worried about bullying and tools to help you talk to your child about bullying. …