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  • Image of a person painting a mindfulness picture at table
    July 6, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    DOING ARTWORK IS BRINGING MINDFULNESS TO LIFE

    The first thing that comes to mind when many of us think of mindfulness, is that it solely involves meditation and/or breathing exercises. Yet despite many being available that do involve meditation, there are also other ways of practising mindfulness. Doing artwork is one example. In truth activities which could be termed as artwork are vast. But the reason why visual art (that of which is intended to be aesthetic to someone by sight or purely and simply seeing) is mentioned in the following paragraph is merely because it’s an activity which I myself do.
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  • Blue sky with clouds and planes wing. View from planes window
    June 8, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    DISORDERS, TRAVEL AND PLEASURE

    Recently a documentary film about me and my family (named Because We Have Each Other) has been released to the world, and in April/May of 2023 we travelled to Toronto for our screening at the HotDocs International Film Festival. As we live in Brisbane this was my longest journey since the “pre-pandemic days”. In fact the last time I visited a destination that far away was when we travelled to Florida in 2011. We’ve visited California countless times, yet the North American east coast is another six or seven hours of flying from there.
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  • Bicycle barriers SpecialKids.Company
    January 9, 2023 Rebecca Sharrock

    THERE IS SUCH THING AS CAN'T YET THERE ARE ALWAYS OTHER POSSIBILITIES

    When I was a child in primary school teachers and staff members would say countless times “there’s no such word as can’t”. It’s perfectly true that those words can give a child (or adult) hope that something could indeed be achievable, and that extra motivation can enable us to put in more effort. However, there are also many times when an action or goal purely and simply isn’t achievable.
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  • paint splatter on paper SpecialKids.Company
    December 12, 2022 Rebecca Sharrock

    I HAVE TO DO MINDFULNESS EXERCISES, CONSTANTLY

    Throughout the past few decades, my challenges with anxiety have been talked over, discovered, misunderstood, pondered over and so forth. Psychology and the understanding of life science, in general, have also come a long way in thirty years. Nowadays many of my current and recent therapists have advised me to do mindfulness exercises.
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  • BEING UNWELL WITH DEPRESSION
    June 15, 2022 Rebecca Sharrock

    BEING UNWELL WITH DEPRESSION

    Countless numbers of celebrities are reported to have depression in media, and we hear about friends and family members having depression in social media too! However on a sad note we ourselves are experiencing depression far more often in today’s busy and less emotionally focused world than ever before.
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