JoFarmer 
I love the way the curve of my hips allows me to perch my arms authoritatively. I love the soft skin on my wrists that I rub to soothe me when I’m anxious. I love the strength in my bum and thighs that helps me lift heavy things at the gym. I love the shape … Read more
Do what makes you happy. It’s simple advice. I’ve given it. I’ve been given it. It can also be crap advice. What do you do when your brain is giving you two, entirely conflicting, paths to happiness? On Sunday, I spent all day with friends and drank far too much wine. I rarely drink these … Read more
It’s been quite a while since I wrote anything. In large part that is because, since the start of the year, there have been some fairly major changes in my life and I have been trying to work out how to process them.
Evaluation is valuable, not just for working out if your project had an impact but for improving the overall quality of your intervention design. I have a blog up on BetterEvaluation about building evaluative thinking into your project from the get-go. It’s based on a presentation I gave with Caroline Tomiczek (from Urbis) at the Australasian … Read more
I think most of us know the statistic that one in four of us will experience mental ill-health in their lives. What this means is that for most of us with mental ill-health, we don’t live in a state of illness all the time. My health oscillates between periods of feeling really unwell and really … Read more
I am a workaholic and I am coming to terms with my holiday guilt.
The list of diagnoses I have received in the ten years that mental illness has been a feature of my life is stupidly long.
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I acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which I live and work, the Wurundjeri people of the Kulin Nations, and pay my respects to elders past and present. Sovereignty was never ceded. Colonisation and dispossession have an ongoing impact on the health and wellbeing of Aboriginal peoples and these lands.
