Stress and the Teenage Brain (Part 2): 10 strategies to combat toxic stress

Feeling stressed and overwhelmed? Can’t think properly? You need to stop and recalibrate. When you find yourself in a funk, your goal is to get yourself back to a normal state. How do you do that? You need simple tools and strategies to combat the stress hormones flooding through your brain. Here are 10 stress-busting […]

Stress and the Teenage Brain (Part 1): The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Here’s a fact that may surprise you: The average high school student today experiences the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient of the 1950s. Take a moment to let that sink in: teenagers who are now considered normal would have been referred for specialist treatment in the 1950s. What’s causing teenagers to […]

Your ATAR score in perspective: the good, the bad, and the ugly

If you’ve been worrying about your ATAR score, please stop. You’re wasting precious minutes and hours of your life that you’ll never get back. Let me tell you what your ATAR score is … It’s a number. A number that can gets you into university. A high ATAR score doesn’t mean you’re a genius who […]