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Wellbeing is essential to the Australian Defence Force (ADF) as it directly impacts operational readiness, performance, and overall morale. When ADF personnel are physically fit, mentally resilient, and emotionally balanced, they can fulfil their duties effectively, make sound decisions, and enhance team dynamics. Prioritizing wellbeing creates a supportive environment, recognizes the sacrifices of personnel, and improves job satisfaction and retention. It also proactively addresses mental health challenges, reduces stress, and promotes psychological resilience among ADF members. By investing in the wellbeing of its personnel, the ADF ensures readiness, cohesion, and the overall success of military missions.

Why Cutting Back Might Make Burnout Worse

Burnout worsens when energy austerity leads individuals to cut joy and energy-giving activities. Recovery requires actively reinvesting in nourishing activities, pursuing meaningful engagement, and incorporating multiple types of rest to restore energy, resilience, and well-being.

These Body Parts Are The Most Sensitive To Pain

A 2014 study mapped human pain sensitivity across the body, revealing fingertips, palms, and foreheads as most sensitive due to dense pain receptors and neural processing—critical for protection, precision, and survival.

The Fastest Killing Spider In The World Has An Unexpected Death Rate

The Sydney funnel-web spider—considered the world’s deadliest spider—has caused no deaths since 1981 thanks to effective anti-venom and first-aid protocols. This has transformed a once-lethal threat into a manageable medical emergency in Australia.

Why Strength Training Is the Best Anti-Ager

Strength training is one of the most effective ways to slow ageing, preserving bone density, muscle mass, and metabolic health. It reduces falls, prevents chronic disease, and sustains physical capability and independence across the lifespan.

Chants across cultures share features that promote relaxation

Chants across diverse cultural traditions share acoustic features—steady tempo, flat intonation, narrow pitch range—that reliably promote relaxation, emotional ease, and wellbeing; suggesting potential low-cost applications for stress reduction and mental resilience.

Financial stress is on the rise in Australia. Here’s what to do if money worries are affecting your mental health

WHS training often highlights financial stress as a risk factor to mental health. A better understanding of this relationship requires understanding the financial triggers, along with awareness of financial signs and management strategies.

Perceived financial hardship linked to depression, especially in the wealthy

Perceived financial hardship strongly predicts depression, especially in high-income households, highlighting that subjective financial stress can worsen mental health even when objective resources are sufficient, with long-lasting effects and limited symptom improvement.

Sharing Your Life With a Dog: 5 Benefits

Owning a dog enhances well-being through routine, companionship, unconditional love, social connection, and emotional support. Despite effort and responsibility, the benefits of increased happiness, purpose, and human connection make dog ownership highly rewarding.

How to Make a Friend

Building friendships requires intentional openness, friendly body language, meaningful conversation, and follow-up interactions. There's always the risk of rejection, but it’s important to take small social risks to foster trust and connection, and long-term relationships.

9 Ways to Overcome Adversity

Resilience is the active process of adapting to adversity, not simply bouncing back. Research shows it requires deliberate exposure to challenges, social support, cognitive flexibility, purpose, physical activity, mindfulness, and even a healthy gut microbiome.