Please find mental health and wellbeing resources developed by our My Mind My Voice volunteers. You will find information sheets, wellbeing strategies and advice and tips from those living with a mental health concern and thriving.
Navigating your mental health can be challenging, especially when you are from a culturally and linguistically diverse background. Check out these resources on self-care, stress & and anxiety, trauma care and help-seeking.
Stress is a normal part of life and it can be a super motivator. Sometimes our stress can be small and easy to manage, other times it can be too much to handle. We know it can be hard to know what to do when feeling super stressed and overwhelmed. The Stress Continuum can help us to identify and understand our own stress. It can also help us to understand what we can do to help manage it at various different levels. Check out the Stress Continuum and start stressing better!
Stress is a normal part of life and it can be a super motivator. Sometimes our stress can be small and easy to manage, other times it can be too much to handle. We know it can be hard to know what to do when feeling super stressed and overwhelmed. The Stress Continuum can help us to identify and understand our own stress. It can also help us to understand what we can do to help manage it at various different levels. Check out the Stress Continuum and start stressing better!
We all need to look after ourselves, but sometimes we can forget us or find it hard to do. One way we can look after ourselves is through self-care and what better way to make sure we do this than developing your very own Self-Care plan! Self-Care plans can help to improve mental health and wellbeing and manage our stress. Download the Self-Care Plan and fill it out with what you can do for self-care!
Raising a child takes a village, but what happens when you are living in another country without your village? Lorena knows this all too well as an Argentinian immigrant and mother of two. It can be challenging to find a new community in a new home and doing that while raising a child becomes even more challenging. We know that 1 in 5 new mums and 1 in 10 new dads experience perinatal anxiety and/or depression. Lorena share’s with you how to identify the signs of perinatal mental health concerns and her tips for building a new village when you are away from your own.
We know that being a parent is hard work! It’s even harder when you don’t have your support networks around you or are living in a new country. Many of our My Mind My Voice volunteers are no strangers to the challenges of parenting when you are away from your family and home. To help others out there going through the same thing, they have put together 10 tips on parenting when you are alone and away from home. Check them out!
Lorena, an Argentinian mother of two and one of our lovely volunteers, has shared with us the 10 most important lessons she learnt throughout her mental health journey and she want to share them with you! Check our Lorena’s 10 Lessons.
Our amazing Volunteer Educator Dinukshi knows all too well the struggles of being a child of first-generation immigrants living in Australia. Drawing from her own experience, she came up with 5 common mental health struggles that children of immigrants experience and what she has found to be the signs of healing. Check them out!
