PHaMs LOOKOUT
August 2014
Published by:
Australian Red Cross
PHaMs
14b Cambridge St
Rockhampton QLD 4700
Tel: 07 4922 0020
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PHaMs news
Art Project – CQID in collaboration with
PHaMs continues to grow with weekly
contributions to the Centre walls of
beautiful cultural artwork.
NAIDOC 2014
Celebrations for NAIDOC 2014 were
held at the Walali Neighbourhood
Centre 10th July. The day was
marked as a day for the Australian
Red Cross to honour our indigenous
service men and women. An
New home for the RAI team
attendance of 120 visitors helped
“The Red Cross Referral for
mark this fantastic day with a special
Active Intervention (RAI) team
thanks to the Rockhampton Military
has recently relocated to 4
Museum for the wonderful displays.
Aquatic Place, Rockhampton
Ozcare Homestay, PIR and SEEDs
(next door to Hog’s Breath). The
programs provided the food.
premises will be known as Nalu
Michelle Pollard from Horseland for
Bulba – which is Darumbal
magnificent Horse which
interpretation for Our Place. Our
contributed to our display and the
new phone number is 07
tremendous contributions from our
48364980. Some other Red Cross
volunteers – Renny,Lis and Alyson
services are also based at these
to which we owe a very big
premises. Feel free to pop in.”
thankyou.
A minute with the team:
Amanda Cowley
Age: 30
Caseworker,
Born in: Rocky
Hobbies: scuba diving, yoga, reading
Favourite holiday destination:
Galápagos Islands - I got to swim
with dolphins, hammerhead sharks,
seals, marine iguanas, turtles,
sting rays and about 1000 different species of
fish!
Something you may not know about me: I live
in an old converted train carriage.
Dream job: my current job, or Dive Instructor!
Social Connect
A day at the beach. A
social day spent at Emu
Park then a little sight
seeing
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29 August 2014.
Booking for the bus
essential.
Friends meeting friends
Hearing test available;
Australian Hearing
Will be conducting hearing
test at the Walali
Neighbourhood centre on 8th
August for more details
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please call on 49220020
Barista Club
Made
Personal Recovery is an idea that has emerged from
the expertise of people with lived experienced of
Moist Choc Zucchini loaf
mental illness, and means something different to
clinical recovery. The most widely used definition of
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personal recovery is from Anthony (1993).
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….a deeply personal, unique process of
changing one’s attitudes, values, feelings,
goal, skills, and/or roles. It is a way of living
a satisfying, hopeful, and contributing life
even within the limitations caused by illness.
Recovery involves the development of new meaning
and purpose in one’s life as one grows beyond the
catastrophic
Effects of mental illness.
1/2 cup neutral oil
1 tsp vanilla extract
2 eggs
pinch salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 cup cocoa powder
1 cup plain flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp bicarb soda
1 1/2 cups firmly packed grated zucchini (I
used about 4 small zucchini)
Method
Preheat your oven to 180°C. Grease and line a
CONFIDENT COMMUNICATION
2 Hr Session
Confident Communication is a short course for job
seekers designed to:
•Empower and build self-confidence
•Assist in overcoming barriers to employment
•Improve communication skills during interviews
•Improve relationship communications
Topics covered include:
•How the brain works
•Emotions and behaviour
•Dealing with conflict
•Communication skills
•Overcoming fear and anxiety
•Mental flexibility
Where:
When:
Venue:
RSVP:
Course Cost:
Time:
loaf tin with baking paper.
Place the sugars, oil, vanilla, eggs, salt and
cinnamon in a mixing bowl. Whisk together
until combined. Sift in the cocoa powder, flour,
baking powder and bicarb soda. Using a
rubber spatula, fold the dry mixture into the wet
mixture until just combined. Add the grated
zucchini and stir through.
Pour the mixture into the prepared loaf tin and
bake for 50 - 60 minutes or until a skewer
inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Rockhampton
Centacare
To be advised
10 Bolsover Street
Rockhampton 4700
To be advised
Free
To be advised
registrations@centacare.net
or Phone 1300 523 985
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Our next workshop:
20th August
11am – 12:30pm
Purpose of workshop:
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What recovery means ?
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The process of recovery.
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Other people’s experiences of recovery.
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Our own experience of recovery.
Fellowship News
Fellowship meeting times have changed. We will be meeting each
Thursday (only) at 11:30am. These meetings are an opportunity for people to
come together and openly discuss their mental health & wellbeing stories, adopting new wellbeing ideas and
life strategies while feeling apart of a support community of Peers or others who have similar experiences.
Our latest discussions have been around developing our Wellbeing Tool box. Wellness Tools are simple, safe,
free and fun things you can do for yourself to help yourself. Diversity of specific choices can include prayers,
affirmations, meditations, books, audiotapes and music. You have to find the right tools that work for you in
your own life.
Maybe you already have a wellbeing tool box? Maybe your tools are well worn from use ? or maybe they’re a
little dusty and could stand to see the light of day. Each week we will have a closer look at different tool box
resources available during Fellowship Recovery, giving everyone a chance to swap ideas and share the
knowledge.
In August we will be taking a closer look at Journaling and Mindfulness therapy. If you have any questions on
these or any other topics please see Shelly Green – Lived Experience Person at PHaMs Rockhampton.
Promoting and sharing the knowledge together.
Meeting time are Monday & Friday 11:30am
Upstairs area at the Walali Neighbourhood Centre
14b Cambridge Street Rockhamtpon.
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PHaMs Red Cross
Is now running gym session every
Tuesday and Thursday at the
Capria’s Gym located on Cambridge
Exercise and Mental Health
Exercise is good for your body. It helps with heart health and
prevents physical ailments among other benefits. But did you know
that exercise is also good for your head? The most common
treatments for depression, for example, are psychotherapy or
medication but Psychologists have found that exercise is a third
successful alternative.
Street. Under the direction of
Personal Trainer Kylie James from
PIR and with the support of John
Clayton PHaMs, participants are able
to achieve all their personal fitness
goals. Kylie is also available for
personal training and can be
contacted on Ph: 1300 761 061
Further, to compliment this, there is
It can be very difficult to find the motivation to get out of bed or off
the couch. In this case, just start gently. A walk around the block is a
good beginning, especially if done with someone else as this helps
break social isolation and exposes you to sunshine. Then, slowly
the Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing
group held every Tuesday afternoon
1:00pm at the Walali Neighbourhood
Centre, hosted by John Clayton.
build up.
Language is a place to begin.
Language is powerful. It can open the world up like sunrise and it can block
out the sky like prison walls.
Words can be powerful seeds. The medical authorities offer us all
kinds of words to talk about ourselves and the troubles we have,
words like “depression” and “psychosis”. Sometimes these words
help us look back on our lives with a new way of understanding
what the heck was going on, but too often these words end up
putting us in sad, separate boxes where we feel like there’s
something wrong with us and we can’t connect to anyone else.
We need to start talking and networking – finding more common
ground and common language with the other people around us. We
need to get together in groups and find language for our stories that
make sense to us and leave us feeling good about ourselves.
Long ago people sat around camp fires and told stories or sat alone
and wrote by candlelight – there was a respect for the written and
spoken word, for their stories.
Tips on living a healthy life
1.
Drink more water
2.
Get enough sleep
3.
Meditate
4.
Exercise
5.
Eat more fruits and vegetables
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Journal
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Breathe deeply
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Learn to say No!
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Hang out with healthy people
10. Enjoy simple things
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Wellbeing Resources
Current Research
Depression and our sense of smell (olfaction): are
they linked?
eheadspace is a confidential, free and secure space
Depressive illness – persistent depressed mood,
where young people 12 - 25 or their family can chat,
lowered self-esteem, loss of interest and fatigue – is
email or speak on the phone with a qualified youth
accompanied by changes in the ‘limbic’ network of the
mental health professional
brain. The limbic system underpins emotions,
Young people may contact us if they need advice, are
behaviour, motivation, long-term memory, and also
worried about their mental health or are feeling isolated
olfaction – our sense of smell.
or alone. eheadspace can help with a broad range of
Evidence suggests that olfactory processing and
issues like bullying, drug and alcohol issues, depression
depression are linked (especially in animal studies),
and anxiety, relationships, concerns about friends,
and patients with an impaired sense of smell or with
fitting in and isolation. We also have experts who can
congenital anosmia (i.e. born without a sense of smell)
provide work and study advice to young people and
are more likely to show signs of depression.
specialist support to parents and carers who are
Conversely, patients with depression have a
worried about a young person 12 - 25.
significantly poorer sense of smell and their ability to
For more information visit headspace.org.au
process olfactory information is reduced. However,
after successful depression treatment, the sense of smell
and the ability to process odours returns to normal.
MyCompass
What does this mean for me?
www.mycompass.org.au
The finding that olfaction is a marker for depression
My Compass is a self-help tool accessible 24/7 from any
indicates a further diagnostic tool to assist with
internet-enabled mobile phone, iPad or computer. It
identification of the illness. Though these results are
provides tools and techniques to assist people to
from a small sample, nonetheless in these woman
manage stress, anxiety and depression. You can track
depression was accompanied by reduced olfactory
your moods and behaviour, schedule SMS or email
processing and reduced activation in olfactory relevant
reminders, receive and print graphical feedback, and
areas of the brain. Their olfactory processing
write in your personal diary. You can also receive
normalized as their depression improved. A further
helpful facts, mental health-care tips or motivational
study finding was that fluctuations in their sense of
statements by SMS or email. There are brief therapy
smell overall appeared to be a good marker for the
modules to complete which help you manage stress,
likely course of their disease.
anxiety and depression. Registering to use myCompass
is free.
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myCompass is a guide to good mental health – it points
you in the right direction.
Australian Red Cross PHaMs is located at the Walali
Neighbourhood Centre
14b Cambridge Street, Rockhampton
Ph: 4922 0020
Walali Neighbourhood Centre activity hours
10:00am – 3:00pm Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Fridays
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What's happening at Walali Neighbourhood Centre
14b Cambridge St, Rockhampton
Ph: 4922 0020
August 2014
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
1st
•CQID art project
&
Ozcare Homestay garden
project @ 10:00am
Walali
Centre
Closed
•
4th
5th
•Fun & Fitness
@ 10.00am
•
Crafty Yarners
10.00am
•
Gym @ 11:00am
•
Lifestyle, Health &
Wellbeing group
@ 1:00pm
• Choir @ 1.00pm
11th
12th
• Fun & Fitness
@ 10.00am
•
Crafty Yarners
10.00am
•
Gym @ 11:00am
•
Lifestyle, Health &
Wellbeing group
@ 1:00pm
6th
13th
• Choir @ 1.00pm
18th
19th
• Fun & Fitness
@ 10.00am
Crafty Yarners 10.00am
•
• Choir @ 1.00pm
Gym @ 11:00
• Lifestyle, Health &
Wellbeing group
@ 1:00pm
25th
26th
• Fun & Fitness
• Crafty Yarners 10.00am
@ 10.00am
•Choir @ 1.00pm
20th
•
Gym @ 11:00
• Lifestyle, Health &
Wellbeing group
@ 1:00pm
27th
Almost anything goes
@ 1:00pm
7th
8th
•Sew N Tell
@ 10:00am
• Gym @ 11:00am
• Recovery
Fellowship @ 11:30
• Barista Club
@ 1:00pm
•CQID art project
&
Ozcare Homestay garden
project @ 10:00am
14th
15th
• Sew N Tell
@ 10:00am
• Gym @ 11:00am
• Recovery Fellowship
@ 11:30
• Barista Club
@ 1:00pm
• CQID art project
&
Ozcare Homestay garden
project @ 10:00am
21st
22nd
• Sew N Tell
@ 10:00am
• Gym @ 11:00
• Recovery Fellowship
@ 11:30
• Barista Club
@ 1:00pm
•CQID art project
&
Ozcare Homestay garden
project @ 10:00am
28th
29th
• Sew N Tell
• CQID art project
&
Ozcare Homestay garden
project @ 10:00am
@ 10:00am
• Recovery Fellowship
@ 11:30am
• Gym @ 11:00
• Barista Club
@ 1:00pm
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•
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Almost anything goes
@ 1:00pm
Almost anything goes
@ 1:00pm
Almost anything goes
@ 1:00pm
Social Connect
Event
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