As women, it can be hard sometimes to take some time for ourselves to just think about our own health. Being it looking after children, a partner, a friend, a parent, or having a demanding job - it’s hard to think about ‘me time’. This week is Women’s Health Week (2 - 6 September), where it’s recognised that the two biggest barriers for women not maintaining a healthy lifestyle is ‘lack of time’ and ‘health not being a priority’, and how to help break these barriers.
Speech Pathology Week (August 25 - 31) intends to promote the speech pathology profession and the work done by speech pathologists with more than 1.2 million Australians who have communication difficulties that impacts on their daily life. Communication is a basic human right and so important to people in their everyday lives.
Whether a child or an adult, most of us can relate to a time that we felt anxiety in getting something ‘right’, or even more so, ‘perfect’ - it could have been a sand castle that, as a child, we wanted to show off to our parents, or an art masterpiece in primary school, or an assignment or letter that just didn’t read as well as it should. Either way, most of us can relate to something just not working out to plan. Would this make us a perfectionist? Well, it would probably depend on how frequent this happens and the intensity of it. As human beings, it’s normal to want to succeed and do our best. So, is there a bad side to perfectionism?
“Walk with us to wellbeing.”
