Wellbeing | The Runway

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.

The surprising link between your inner voice and your heart rate

Emotional self-talk—whether kind or critical—affects the body. Even silent words raise heart rate slightly. Our inner voice carries physical weight, linking emotion and physiology in ways most people don’t notice.

Researchers identify a psychological trait linked to conquering difficult goals

People who act decisively succeed more often. Emotional control helps turn plans into action. Those who hesitate under pressure generally achieve less—especially when goals are tough or demand persistence.

How walking fine-tunes your hearing

Walking it seems actively enhances the brain’s auditory processing, dynamically shifting sensitivity based on movement, direction, and selectively amplifying peripheral sounds. Neural mechanisms could link locomotion with spatial awareness and environmental monitoring during navigation.

Medical Trauma and the Roots of Eating Disorders

Experiences of medical trauma and chronic invalidation can sever trust in the body, driving disordered eating as a form of control. Trauma-informed care restores safety, bodily awareness, and trust between patients and healthcare providers.

4 Ways We Make Ourselves Miserable at Work

Workplace misery often stems from self-defeating habits—dwelling on negativity, fixating on fairness, resisting growth, and fuelling drama. Awareness of these behaviours allows personnel to reclaim agency, improve morale, and foster professionalism in challenging organisational environments.

The Neurobiology of Trauma

Trauma disrupts the brain’s survival circuitry, disabling rational control and keeping the body in high alert. Evidence-based therapies can rewire neural pathways, restoring regulation between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex for recovery and resilience.

Yes, you can be intolerant to fruit and veg

Hereditary fructose intolerance is a rare genetic disorder preventing fructose breakdown, causing severe liver and kidney damage. It requires strict avoidance of fructose, sucrose, and sorbitol. Early diagnosis is vital for management and survival.

How to Feel Less Bitter

Overcoming bitterness involves aligning actions with personal values rather than external measures of success. Cultivating meaning, self-awareness, and compassion after adversity fosters emotional resilience and strengthens relationships with oneself and others.

Aspiration inflation – the devaluation of being normal

A modern obsession is with extraordinary achievement at work or in life. People, especially youth, are simultaneously told they can ‘’be anything’’, yet they are increasingly ill-equipped to find meaning in being ordinary resulting in disappointment or depression.

Controlled fear might temporarily alter brain patterns linked to depression

Controlled fear from 'horror' experiences could temporarily disrupt brain connectivity patterns linked to depression potentially increasing enjoyment and shifting attention outward. Could be useful for emotion-regulation support in individuals with mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms.