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BlogYour Mental Health Safety Planning: Stanley & Brown Safety Plan
A safety plan is a set of steps you write down during a calm moment, so they're ready when things feel overwhelming. It's one of the most well-supported tools in mental health care: studies show it can cut suicidal behaviour by almost half. But most people have never created one. This guide takes you through the six steps, explains the reasoning behind each, and connects you with Australian crisis support services. No jargon. No judgement. Just a practical tool you can put together right now.
KE
Kanyini Earth8 Min
BlogWhat Are the Signs of Burnout at Work? Causes & Prevention
Most burnout advice tells you to cope better. Set boundaries. Try mindfulness. Take a walk. That advice is not wrong. But it treats burnout like a personal problem with personal solutions. The research says otherwise. Real recovery requires both individual changes and changes to the conditions that caused the burnout in the first place. This article covers the signs, the structural causes most people won’t name, the difference between coping and recovery, and what to do if you are in it right now.
KE
Kanyini Earth10 Min
BlogIs Your Team Checked Out? The Disengagement Warning Signs Leaders Overlook
Most disengagement advice tells you to look for declining productivity, absenteeism, and silence in meetings. Those are real signs. They are also late signs. By the time they are visible, the person has usually been checked out for months. This article is about the earlier, quieter signals that leaders consistently miss. The ones that cost the most because they look like everything is fine.
KE
Kanyini Earth8 Min
BlogWhat Is Psychological Safety at Work? What Your Team Might Be Missing
Psychological safety is whether people on your team feel safe enough to speak up, make mistakes, and be honest without being punished for it. When it is missing, people go quiet. Innovation stops. Mental health suffers. In Australia, the conditions that destroy psychological safety are now legally defined as psychosocial hazards, and employers are required to manage them. This article explains what psychological safety actually looks like, the specific risk factors that erode it, and what to do if your team is missing it.
KE
Kanyini Earth9 Min
The first day of more days of being good to each other
The first day of the rest of your life happens quite often, especially as you get older. I’ve known people who’ve quit smoking 400 times. But the very first of the first day of the rest of your life often happens when you are a child, and it is memorable enough that you can count a hundred days before and after it on a calendar of that year, and not remember a single one of them.
Antonio
13 min read
Aging Bodies. Anxious minds
The best estimate we have is this: around one hundred billion Homo sapiens—people like you, people like me—have wandered across this spinning blue planet. Each one utterly unique, a single note in an eternal symphony. And yet, out of that hundred billion, only about eight billion still walk among us. The rest have stepped beyond the horizon.
Dr Jeev
13 min
StoryDeparture at Noon
“I’ve spent my entire life babysitting a grown man with talent for poetry and the emotional depth of a teaspoon.” Devika sighed, her voiced laced with bitter wit. “Sure, he can string words into magic on the paper, but when it comes to being a good brother, husband or father—he’s always on a short-circuit. How can someone be so stone-hearted to ignore and reject his new born son for months? She paused, her wrinkles getting more pronounced and eyes glistening. “Perhaps I enabled him, fed his ego. Look at him—still expecting applauses and batting away responsibilities.” I held her soft, warm, time-worn hands and could feel her deep resentment through her watery eyes and parched lips. It’s a strange ache, to watch your mother carry decades of disappointment, wearing it each day. Especially now, in the twilight of her long luminous struggle.
DJ
Dr Jeev15 min
From Ownership to Kinship: Rethinking Our Place on Earth
If we pause for a moment and look at how humanity relates to the natural world today, we notice a strange paradox. We speak endlessly of “sustainability,” of “saving the planet,” of “green growth.” Yet, the same societies that chant these words continue to prize economic growth above all else. Governments measure progress in GDP, companies compete to sell more, and individuals are urged to consume endlessly — all in the name of prosperity. Something about this equation doesn’t quite add up. Can an economic system that depends on perpetual growth ever truly be sustainable?
Awadhesh Prasad
10 min
Dancing with the Universe
On a train winding through the Himalayan foothills, two strangers find themselves thrown together by chance. What begins as a casual conversation over sweet chai and coffee soon unravels into a playful, honest and transformative dialogue into the heart of ancient philosophies and the invisible threads that bind us all.
Dr Jeev