Help Yourself Heal

16/11/2025

"No one can successfully shield another person from the pains of life; no one can take our grief away. No one can truly console a parent who has lost a child or make the grim reality disappear. But we can help them and be available to them. We can be there when they need to talk, when they need to cry, when they have to make decisions too difficult or complex to decide on their own. And we can help prevent many of the disastrous after effects of such painful losses by a far more sensitive and listening attitude before the death occurs, whenever this is possible." -

Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

16/11/2025

The World Map of Palliative Care Development, created by the ATLANTES Global Observatory of Palliative Care at the Institute for Culture and Society (ICS) at University of Navarra, provides a comparative analysis of palliative care development for 201 countries and territories, representing over 99% of the world’s population. This pioneering research was conducted by ATLANTES using the 14 indicators from the WHO framework and a standardized methodology, with the collaboration of the Worldwide Hospice Palliative Care Alliance (WHPCA).
In addition, WHPCA collaborated with ATLANTES to produce an article estimating the number of specialized palliative care services and patients worldwide and an estimating the current gap in access to palliative care globally. Download this article https://ow.ly/8Vjy50Xqsxq

Download the ATLANTES published article https://ow.ly/Olaa50Xqsxs

For more information, please visit the Universidad de Navara website https://ow.ly/uGwW50Xqsxt

17/07/2025

More "Dying To Know" events are on in NSW!
These events aim to encourage open conversations about death and end-of-life planning.

Both events will be free and offer opportunities for us to learn, ask questions, and engage in conversations about death and dying.

08/07/2025

An terrific new initiative!

https://youtu.be/06q7lSiTw-Y

27/06/2025

World Palliative Care Day 2025 - Achieving the Promise: Universal Access to Palliative Care.

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day is an annual unified day of action to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care around the world.

The year 2024 marked 10 years since the World Health Assembly (WHO’s Governing Body) passed the only stand-alone resolution on palliative care, calling for all countries to:

"strengthen palliative care as a component of comprehensive care throughout the life course.”

Palliative care is fundamental to improving the quality of life, well-being, comfort, and human dignity for individuals.

It is an effective person-centred health service that values patients’ needs to receive accurate, personal and culturally sensitive information on health status, and to have a central role in making decisions about the treatment received.

It all begins with values-driven education and advocacy.

Learn about Take 10: https://www.endwellproject.org/GIMME MORE THAN SHELTERPalliative care for people experiencing homelessnessby Naheed Dosani, MD The press...

10/04/2025

Unprocessed trauma takes its toll on our nervous system by altering it in a way that keeps it stuck on high alert.

Trauma activates our body to continue defending us against threats that belong in the past, yet continue to frighten us in the present.

What happened to us and how we make sense of
those experience is where our journey to healing begins.

We can then begin to pull ourselves out of the past - a past we continue to replay in our overactive minds and sensitised bodies.

By releasing the past we begin to feel more present and connected with the here-and-now. We become free to dare imagine a brighter future.

It is at that point in our journey that we transition into post-traumatic growth.

Reach out for more education on how unprocessed trauma might be acting out in your life.

12/10/2024

26/09/2024

World Hospice and Palliative Care Day
is a day to celebrate and support hospice and palliative care efforts around the world.

Despite our demographic, political and socioeconomic differences,
we stand united in our humanity and our call for dignified end of life care.

23/09/2024

Insecure Attachments:

When a child parents their parent during childhood.

And later on, when an adult romantic partner continues to use placating, passive or submissive strategies to communicate their unmet needs.

23/09/2024

Secure Attachment:

What healthy love looks like between parent and child during early life.

And later on during adulthood, between growth-orientated romantic partners.

23/04/2024

Calling all kindred spirits ready to connect and recalibrate! Reach out to 'Help Yourself Heal' via Email or Website Chat 🍎 www.helpyourselfheal.com.au support@helpyourselfheal.com.au