Elisabeth Shaw, CEO, Relationships Australia NSW: The Downsides To Online Dating

Elisabeth Shaw, CEO, Relationships Australia NSW, examines the downside of online dating. She also gives helpful tips to manage your experience when looking for a partner virtually. There will be many people who see the downsides of online dating as blindingly obvious. It’s too risky, unromantic, contrived, untrustworthy and engenders too much potential for deception.…

ByElisabeth Shaw24/01/2021

How To Help A Friend Who Is Struggling With Mental Health Issues

Elisabeth Shaw, CEO, Relationships Australia NSW, provides helpful advice about how to help a friend who is struggling with mental health issues. At present, we can all feel a bit below par. The isolation, lack of easy access to our usual activities and supports, loss of home/work boundaries and perhaps some slippage of self-care,…

ByElisabeth Shaw24/10/2020

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How To Manage Your Self-Confidence When You Have Lost Your Job

Elisabeth Shaw CEO Relationships Australia NSW provides advice and support on how to manage your self-confidence when you have lost your job. The loss of a job is one of the most difficult challenges we can experience and impacts all aspects of our lives. At this time across the world, so many people have lost…

ByElisabeth Shaw29/09/2020

Health News

Asking R U OK? – And Making It Count

Why do we really ask “how are you?” Gary Burnison, CEO of Korn Ferry recently wrote in CNBC that these were “the three most useless words in the world of communication.” This, Burnison argues, is because the person asking often doesn’t really want to know, and the person responding doesn’t tell the truth, and…

ByElisabeth Shaw09/09/2020

Happiness Health Relationships Wellness & Health

Relationships Australia NSW CEO Elisabeth Shaw: The Truth About Body Dysmorphia

Elisabeth Shaw, CEO Relationships Australia NSW examines the truth and complexities surrounding body dysmorphia. Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) is considered to be in the “obsessive/compulsive” category of mental health issues, involving a preoccupation with perceived defects and flaws that are not observable or appear mild to others, and repetitive behaviours such as checking the mirror,…

ByElisabeth Shaw26/08/2020

Health News

Relationships Australia’s Elisabeth Shaw: How To Break The Cycle Of Domestic Violence

Elisabeth Shaw, CEO, Relationships Australia NSW, writes about how to break the cycle of domestic violence. Although public awareness about domestic violence has increased, it can still be difficult when we are in an abusive relationship to really know “is that what is happening to me?” This is partly because we might have some fixed…

ByElisabeth Shaw24/07/2020

Advice Health Relationships Wellness & Health

How To Support Our Ageing Loved Ones During Isolation

There is a lot of information out there about how to manage our ageing loved ones during COVID-19. Knowing that our elderly relatives are high risk can lead us to panic, which generally makes it more difficult for us to think methodically around the issues of duty, responsibility, rights and safety. To help…

ByElisabeth Shaw11/07/2020

Advice Relationships Wellness & Health

How To Deal With Emotional Exhaustion During COVID-19

In many ways, our lives have become simpler, more reduced versions of what we have previously led. We are not having to deal with traffic, after school activities, hectic social obligations, or numerous face-to-face interactions. Yet this period has been surprisingly emotionally exhausting, and it isn’t the sort of tiredness that a good night’s sleep…

ByElisabeth Shaw26/06/2020

Food & Drink Health Nutrition

How To Deal With Emotional Eating During Isolation

During the isolation period of COVID-19, I’ve put on a lot of weight. I am an emotional eater and have been anxious. What are strategies to help deal with emotional eating? The last few months have, for many, felt unhinging and somewhat out of control. All the normal checks and balances we have had in…

ByElisabeth Shaw11/06/2020

Parenting Relationships

How Do Daughters Deal With A Narcissistic Mother?

Having some measure of self-esteem is critical in ensuring we believe we are worthy of love and deserve to be treated well. Where it becomes a problem, and indeed could be diagnosed as narcissistic personality disorder, is when there is a consistent pattern of behaviour involving an exaggerated sense of self-importance. Narcissists can go to…

ByElisabeth Shaw28/05/2020