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Helping you figure out all the big stuff in life: relationships, health, money, work and the world. Let's talk! With trusted experts and your stories, Life Matters is all about what matters to you.
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According to a recent study, women in bodybuilding are four times as likely to use anabolic steroids -- which help your body build muscle -- than average, with one in seven using these drugs.They're illegal... but they're also unregulated, and very often miss-labelled.. meaning it's unclear what you're putting into your body.
Despite progress, women’s sport still battles for visibility.Experts say issues like low pay, poor scheduling, and weak infrastructure are stalling professionalisation, with ripple effects felt all the way down to community sport.
While lots of us will be spending the holidays horizontal for days on end, a brave subset of Aussies use their time off to enjoy extreme sports - skiing, paragliding, rock-climbing. So, why do some people love the thrill of extreme sports like sky diving and free climbing, while others shy away from roller-coasters?
Running a marathon, a half-marathon, even a 5K, is no small thing. The training, the early mornings, the commitment can take a lot out of you.Now, imagine doing it without being able to see.For blind and vision-impaired runners, it's a whole different level of difficult.But a Sydney running club is making it possible - pairing vision-impaired runners with specially trained guides.
According to the Australian Federal Police, children as young as 12 are being radicalised by extremist groups online. And now terrified families say there's nowhere to turn.So, what does early intervention look like? And where can families find help?
From homeschooling to homesteading, groups of women are eschewing moden life to take up the "traditional" roles of 1950s-era wives and mothers.And while many of us yearn for simplicity, an expert warns against the dark side of the tradwife subculture.
Conspiratorial thinking has spread through the megaphone of the internet, and Australians aren't immune.Now it's the subject of a new book, Conspiracy Nation: exposing the dangerous world of Australian conspiracy theories, which takes readers to the places where home-grown conspiracy theories spread.
Riots, murders, and politically-motivated terrorism. No matter what side of politics you sit on ... or even if you consider yourself pretty removed from politics ... it's obvious there is a deepening divide right now. It's called "us versus them" thinking.
1Two of the world's top models, Gigi and Bella Hadid, confirmed their family had been keeping a secret. The sisters revealed they have a younger half-sibling, after their father had a relationship with another woman more than 20 years ago.Meanwhile, actress Mariska Hargitay also recently shared a family secret she'd been keeping for decades - the man who raised her was not her biological father.Family life involves many complexities and tangles. So, why do families keep secrets? And what makes people finally reveal the truth?
There are around 20,000 babies born in Australia and New Zealand each year, conceived through assisted reproductive technology.But not everyone has equal access to IVF. One West Australian woman says she was forced to become a "reproductive refugee" and cross the country to access the medical care she needed to become a mum.
COVID lockdowns changed many people's relationship with alcohol. For journalist Kate Halfpenny and her husband Chris Ogge, a decision to leave the city during the pandemic gave them extra space... but also stirred up something else.Chris's drinking, already a quiet presence in their life, began to take over ... and suddenly, what was supposed to be a new beginning became a breaking point.
Home can be a place of comfort and sanctuary. It can also be where stress lives or where you don’t quite feel seen. Are there ways to think through the contradictory emotions home evokes to find a sense of calm?
Everyone talks about how to keep the romance alive in relationships after you have kids.But what about keeping the friendship alive with your friends who have had kids when you haven't?And what happens if you find their kids particularly difficult to be around?
In our regular segment My Two Cents, we ask those questions you'd rather not answer about money.Comedian and former triple j breakfast host shares why sometimes it's ok to make money decisions with your heart, not your head.
If you're a millennial on the internet, you likely have a whole library of you own personal embarrassing digital history floating around out there.But when we post photos of our own kids, we're writing the first chapters of their digital history, and that's a lot of responsibility to get it right. What happens when you get it wrong?
Giving birth at home used to be fringe but it's gaining popularity. Since 2019, delivering a baby at home under the supervision of a birthing specialist have doubled across Australia. So what's driving women to choose a homebirth? And what needs to be done to make it more accessible?
When you think about your dad, what does he look like?Which kinds of memories does he feature in... and where's he absent? Fathering takes many forms, as diverse as the dads that span the country. Now a group of researchers have set out to document the history of "dad-ing" across the last century.
Netflix has used artificial intelligence in one of its TV shows for the first time, with visual effects for series El Eternauta completed in one tenth the usual time. But experts say this efficiency isn't always for the best - with companies outsourcing basic tasks, it limits the need for interns and graduate employees.
In a submission to the economic roundtable the federal government is hosting in August, Westpac says there's major productivity gains to be made if one million Australians moved out of the cities and into the regions.Would a mass influx of city slickers overwhelm regional towns? What planning and infrastructure would we need to enable this transition?
Australia is seeing unprecedented rates of burnout with many workers taking "sick days" to try and cope with the ongoing demands of work and life in the midst of a cost of living crisis.But could adding a single public holiday help tackle burnout?
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When I was struggling with health problems while I had 3 children under 5, one of my good friends taught me a valuable lesson: "Any job worth doing is worth doing badly!" That freed me up to get everything done, because it took less time to just do them to the essential standard. It also freed me from my perfectionist mother's voice in my head with the converse saying ending with the word "well".
lots of corporate speak, which ordinary people find incomprehensible, you have not addressed the enormous difficulties most people face trying to negotiate the NDIS, many people are being asked to be administrators which they are not, & they get lost in trying to understand the paperwork, how they can access NDIS, and many other problems
This is incredibly frustrating hearing users who do not need these drugs. The wait and price neurodivergent people pay to actually get this drug, because of how these people are misusing and causing issues in regulations is just cruel. we need these drugs and have such a hard time attaining them because of this party crap. i need this medication as medocation to function; it brings clarity, i can finally read and write, listen and focus. i cried at the reaction my body had, i finally found something that saved my life, yet people are seriously ruining my ability to even get it legally. The statements made by these rec users is so disappointing and show little awareness of the real issues people face who need these drugs.
We know that people's health and wellbeing is better when they interact with other species in positive ways. Imagine creating an Aged Care facility adjacent to an Animal Shelter and there was a shared space for interaction. Even better, aged care, childcare and animal shelter! In some parts of Europe (Netherlands, Scandinavia) they have created co-facilities for aged care and childcare.
let's get more funding to fix this problem of mental health. I'm a hip hop artist and will work on improving awareness of this issue
I like it very much as I get more and more knowledge about health .
I love the Fitzroy Diaries. What a delightful writer!