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Win great prizes including cookware and food vouchers by submitting your delicious recipes! We are looking for easy to prepare, healthy meals or snacks that get you through even the toughest of shifts.

When does normal nutrition become an eating disorder? Nurses and midwives know the value of healthy nutrition, but even health professionals can become obsessive about body image and what they consume. This behaviour pattern can develop into an eating disorder.

Researcher, author and former nurse Sarah Russell lives a happy, full and productive life with bipolar disorder. We asked her to share her story.

We asked researcher, author and former nurse Sarah Russell to share her strategies for staying well with a mental illness.

Sarah Russell lives with bipolar disorder — a common, but often misunderstood, mental illness. In this podcast, Sarah discusses the importance of health promotion, early intervention and staying well with a stay-well plan.

Dietitian Dianne Wintle recently joined the Nurse and Midwife Support Podcast, where we discussed how nurses and midwives can change their relationship with food. We recommend you check out the podcast first, and then read this helpful article about the connection between willpower, joy and food.

In this podcast, Dianne Wintle - an Accredited Practising Dietitian - discusses her journey with food and weight loss and why her research focused on how nurses’ feelings of stress and anxiety can manifest in their relationship with food.

Registered Nurse Amy Benn, Registered Midwife Celeste Pinney and Registered Nurse/Midwife Helen Pentecost join us to share the self-care routines that have helped them take control of their lives as shift-workers.

In this podcast Amy Benn - the Registered Nurse & Director of Wholeheart Magazine - shares her advice and tips on how she achieved a state of well-being while doing shift work.

I was never a natural parent. Some people are. You know the ones I mean. They make it look easy.

Shift work is part of life for nurses and midwives. It can be taxing on the body both physically, mentally and emotionally. Celeste Pinney is passionate about health and have always prioritised her self-care and shares her experience.

Registered Nurse and Director of Wholeheart Magazine, Amy Benn, provides useful tips on managing a healthy shift work balance.

We celebrate NAIDOC week and share the important work and experiences of ATSI nurses and midwives.

For this year’s International Nurses Day, we asked one of the amazing nurses at Nurse & Midwife Support to share her story. When we asked Jackie to share her story about her inspirational career as a nurse, we knew it would be good but didn’t realise it would have such an incredible impact.

For this year’s International Day of the Midwife, we asked one of the amazing midwives - Helen - at Nurse & Midwife Support to share her story.