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Wellness events to bring some zen to your silly season

HerCanberra Team — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:15:16 +0000

We're in the sprint to Christmas, and if your diary resembles a game of Tetris, you may need a chance to chill. We've rounded up some Canberra wellness events to...

Australia’s skin cancer burden – a scorecard shows where we are failing

Emma Macdonald — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 19:05:25 +0000

Australia has a national cancer, the result of our sunburnt country. Skin cancer is the most common cancer in Australia, claiming more than 2,000 lives every year and costing the...

Eight Canberra wellness events to help your end-of-year reset

Erin Cross — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 19:21:59 +0000

The end of the year brings it all: packed calendars, endless To-Do lists, emotions on overdrive, and a bone-deep exhaustion that won't budge. Consider these eight events your invitation to...

A treatment for some of the hardest-working muscles we didn’t know we had

HerCanberra Team — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:15:20 +0000

When it comes to your pelvic floor muscles, that adage “you don’t know what you’ve got until it’s gone*” rings absolutely true. For beauty therapist Jaclyn Haslam, it wasn’t until...

Your gut feeling was right: What happens when medical professionals get it wrong?

Sammy Rose — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 20:10:49 +0000

You’re sitting in a doctor's surgery feeling like something isn't quite right, a nagging voice in the back of your head questioning whether you're receiving the right care, the...

We need to talk about our parents…

Emma Macdonald — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 20:20:24 +0000

Right now, there is a group of us women who are surviving, not thriving. We are not the 20-somethings trying to climb the corporate ladder and establish our careers, nor...

Four Canberra wellness centres for a little TLC

Erin Cross — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:10:23 +0000

Find your inner zen at one of these four luxurious and laid-back wellness sanctuaries in Canberra. Sometimes, you just need to take a moment for yourself. Luckily, Canberra is home...

The surprising reason four million Australians have back pain (and how to fix it)

HerCanberra Team — Sun, 24 Aug 2025 20:20:07 +0000

There were times when, after dropping her children at school for the day, Emily would have to lie down for a few hours to recover. Along with prescription painkillers, it...