Recently, I experienced burnout, and it wasn’t pretty.

There was a lot going on, working part time with fast approaching deadlines, in the depths of a fulltime university semester, competitive Rugby training through the week and games on the weekend as well as attempting to...

Over two years ago, a large portion of Australian’s made the switch from working in an office to working from home. At the time there wasn’t a choice, with the pandemic forcing us to change the way we operated and worked. But now, with restrictions having eased, a new hybrid model of...

The reality of physical and mental wellbeing in Australian workplaces is concerning, with mental illness in the workplace costing the economy over $17.4 billion per year. Employees are burnt out, stressed and finding dissatisfaction in their employment. 90% believe mental health is an...

In 2018, there were 12.4 million males in Australia—just under half (49%) of the country’s population. Overall, there are 98.4 males for every 100 females. 

So, let's picture the typical Australian man....

Exercising can be hard at the best of times. Fitting training into a busy schedule is difficult, and this can be made even harder when you experience setbacks.  

You probably know the feeling – you’ve made the commitment and after four weeks of really knuckling down and staying...

About 60% of Australian adults experience poor quality sleep. Markers of poor-quality sleep includes trouble falling asleep, staying asleep and waking too early and not being able to fall back asleep. These markers of poor sleep quality lead to a reduction in sleep, correlating with decreased...

The other week Better Being hosted a lunch for HR Directors about how to create workplaces that promote the mental wellbeing and resilience of employees. We had some of Australia’s leaders in wellness, including Sarah Wilson and Dr Roy Sugarman, who shared their insights in how to create a...

What is the secret to a long, healthy and happy life? Well Dan Buettner in his book Blue Zones explores this. He looks at communities across the globe that regularly live beyond 100 years old. From Okinawa, Japan to Adventist Colonies in California these communities tend to share common traits...

I had a very interesting conversation with my uncle the other day who said to me that if it wasn’t for smoking he would have died from work related stress many years ago. I agree with him to some degree. My uncle has been retired for nearly 20 years but was formerly a CFO at a large mining...

The other day one of our trainers was telling me about the programs they were running at a national rugby league club he was working at. The NRL are known to have a high number of suicides among young men for a number of reasons. Thankfully they have taken the proactive steps of implementing a...

From the physical to psychological, mindfulness is fast becoming the magical solution to all our health and performance problems. Studies have shown that mindfulness can reduce stress, increase focus and improve productivity in the workplace. But mindfulness doesn't have to be all happy clappy,...

As the Mckinsey Maxim goes ‘You can manage what you measure’.

However many people have the perception that if I am thin than I am fit. This has led to us defining our health by the numbers on a set of scales. That skinny somehow means healthy. But research shows this to be untrue.