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Women's Wellness Hub is not just about health - it's so much more!
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Physical Wellness
Have you had your health checked lately?
What should you be checking for each decade of your age?
Don't wait until it's too late.
As women, our bodies are challenged, intricate, unique, everchanging and need our attention and care. We need to stop and know our body and where it is at! Too often we put ourselves last in the pecking order, which at the time we often validate, but deep down we know that neglecting ourselves can come back to haunt us in many different ways - mentally, physically and socially.
Physical wellness starts with having your health regularly checked. The more you are educated on what to look for, and what is particularly relevant to your age, the more you will get out your GP appointments and identify potential risks before it is too late. You need to advocate for your own health, so getting educated on the basics is critical. You have time....if not, you need to make time. You and your family are counting on it.
Realistic and Edible Nutritious Tips
Sick of fad diets, weighing your food, etc etc.... us too! We are busy, sick of gimmicks and hard sells and just want quick and super easy suggestions to get our health back on track.
What many of us want now is very easy and practical ways to improve our nutrition and overall wellness and improve our intake of certain key nutrients our bodies are likely missing which in turn is having a real impact on other aspect of our emotional, physical and mental wellness.
Exercise for the super busy woman
Don't have a lot of time, not a real gym gal, but know that exercise is really good for the mind, body and soul... We hear ya sista!
We have touched base with some exercise experts who specialise in womens exercise regimes particularly for effective stretches, post natal support, pelvic floor/incontinence and light weight training.
I just want to sleep.......
Sleep deprivation can be bloody cruel.
A woman's sleep patterns can be significantly influenced by her stress levels, workload, illness, hormonal fluctuations, menopausal night sweats, post partum recovery, children and general lifestyle. Sleep deprivation occurrs when a woman fails to get the amount of sleep they need. Not enough sleep can have a major impact on daytime functioning including poor concentration, reduced reaction times, driving and workplace safety, work performance, anxiety levels. It can metabolically affect your weight, affect your immunity and ability to recover from illness. It can affect our level of tolerance, mood and place pressure on our relationships.
Proper sleep hygiene, hormone management, stress and workload management, lifestyle adjustments and even counselling, can help significantly reduce your sleep disturbances. Chronic sleep issues may require additional medical and/or medication support.
We explore the ways we can get sleep help, provide you with the overarching information and links to service providers who can support you all the way to get you back into better sleep patterns.
Perimenopause & Menopause Support
Menopause, for some very lucky women, comes and goes relatively uneventfully, with perhaps just the obvious physiological changes, but for many women 'the pause' can sneak up and slap you when you least expect it, or can hit you like one gigantic tidal wave seemingly affecting every aspect of your wellness and life. We validate your experience no matter what age, what symptoms you get.
Our hub provides you with the overarching information and links to service providers who can support you all the way - The more we share and care, the better 50% of the population will fare!
Bone
Meno-rage (dealing with the big emotions)
Sleep
ADHD and Menopause
Fertility, Pregnancy & Post Natal Support
Being a woman is a blessing but it does come with some added challenges....
Feminine reproductive wellness covers the intricate balance of hormones. Unfortunately when women's reproductive wellness is poor, it can significantly impact the quality of life of a woman - physically, mentally, socially and in turn can impact their relationships, confidence and ability to work.
Our hub explores periods, the latest in period support and products for women, general guidance on menstrual irregularities and where to get help if you are concerned, pregnancy challenges and support and when and how to get support for post natal concerns.
We provide you with the overarching information and links to service providers who can support you all the way.
Breast checks and Breast Cancer support
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in Australian women. If you’re a woman, your risk of breast cancer increases greatly after the age of 50. Nine out of 10 women diagnosed with breast cancer have no family history of breast cancer.
Finding breast cancer early means there are more treatment options available to you. Regular self breast checks and GP checks can improve your chances of detecting changes that need further examination. Breast screening can find breast cancer early, often before it can be seen or felt by a woman or her doctor.
We provide you with the overarching information, suggested tools to assist, and links to service providers who can support you all the way from checks, to diagnosis, treatment and recovery (including genuine post treatment support -physically and emotionally).
Your Mental & Emotional Wellness
No two women are the same and their experiences with mental health may be determined by a number of factors including culture, genetics, biology, age, environment, lifestyle, relationships and life experiences.
Women however do account for higher occurrences of some mental health concerns such as anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, eating disorders, non-suicidal self injury and depression. Our bid to 'juggle the load' by balancing work, education, family, social commitments, finances, household duties, providing caring assistance for elderly parents - can have a serious impact on our mental and emotional health and physical wellness.
Dealing with the ebb and flow of emotions is part of being a human and as women, we are often having to navigate many emotions. Emotional wellness includes learning how to understand, express and effectively manage emotions. It includes finding things we love to do, reconnecting with ourselves, examining our triggers, setting our boundaries, practicing self-compassion, building our resilience, and support networks. It also includes how we manage our professional lives - balancing career goals with personal values - maintaining the healthy work-life balance so we can thrive both personally and professionally without jeopardising our mental and emotional wellness.
We provide you with the overarching information, suggested tools to assist your wellbeing, and links to service providers who can support you.
It's not all woo woo after all...
Woo-woo -- dubiously or outlandishly mystical, supernatural, or unscientific....
For many of us the concepts of breathwork, yoga, kinesiology, acupuncture, grounding, may have fallen into the woo-woo basket...
And yet, the more we research these methods, the more we were are surprised by their genuine wellness benefits....
We provide you with the overarching information, suggested tools to assist your wellbeing, and links to service providers who can support you.
Dealing with Addictions..
It can be super tricky to cut back on an addiction like nicotine but with the right support and commitment, it can be life changing. For many of us, we are not aware of the amount and impact alcohol is having on our life.
In Australia, we live in a culture when alcohol has almost been seen as a social necessity, but the impact it can have on our health, weight, mental state, safety and relationships can be really far from helpful...
We provide you with the overarching information, suggested tools to assist you, and links to service providers and products which can support you to cut back on your habits.
Women's FINANCIAL WELLNESS
- securing your finances now and into the future
Whether you are single, in a relationship, divorced, or widowed - if you want to better understand your financial situation, how to get help to save, budget, plan, and access financial resources, we provide you with some excellent, credible and reliable guidance from the financial experts.
Supporting our Teen Girls
Female adolescent rites of passage provide young women with the ability to be seen, heard, respected, on their important transitional pathway to womanhood.
We provide guidance on the importance of these opportunities, how we can all work together to raise strong women and young women who respect themselves, and deserve full respect in return.
Email us at [email protected] for details of these courses or sign up to our newsletter.
Your Social Wellness- Building Connections
Women are inherently social beings and our connections and social networks play a really important role in our physical, mental and emotional wellbeing. The support we get from friends, family and our community offer us emotional resilience and an important sense of belonging.
Isolation and loneliness are causing mental health issues to rise to incredibly concerning levels and are now described as one of the most pressing Australian public health priorities in Australia. Social isolation causing loneliness has been linked to mental illness, emotional distress, development of dementia, premature death.
We provide you with details of upcoming webinars, podcasts, online activities, events and invite you to join the free Konnect bookclub to improve connection whether in person or at least online.
Legal Wellness
Going through a Separation, Divorce and need legal help?
Going through a separation and divorce can be extremely difficult, frustrating, overwhelming, scary and lonely! We provide you with tips and advice from the experts to get you through these challenges and to help you emerge more confidently, educated, supported and less stressed.
Parenting Support:
Single Parenting, and Co-Parenting support
These can all be extremely difficult, frustrating, overwhelming, scary and lonely times!
We provide you with tips and advice from the experts to get you through these challenges and to help you emerge more confidently, educated, supported and less stressed.
- Parenting Help
-Teen counselling
-Co-Parenting Support
-Grieving family support
-Neurodivergent parenting support
Returning to the dating scene..
After years (or decades!) of being in a relationship and matrimonial life, it can be difficult for newly single women (and men) to get back into the dating game. It can seem daunting, scary, all too hard,.... So how do new singletons go about dating, particularly after a long break?
Our experts give some great tips, we explore different ways to potentially date, dating apps, how to be safe, have fun but choosey!
Relationship Safety
There is never any excuse for any form of abuse. Australian women have had to ensure domestic and family violence for too long and we have all had enough. Our #enoUgh movement is all about joining forces across Australia to increase awareness of Domestic and family violence but to also shake up the system and really assess what is working and what isn't.
We provide you with guidance on how to remain safe in home, prepare an exit safety plan, be financially and technologically safe, to access emergency support (accommodation, food, financial, medical and counselling).
We provide guidelines, details of services and products to assist you to be better educated, informed, supported and safe. We help you identify what amounts to abuse, coercive control, stalking and provide checklists of types of abuse as well as relationship RED FLAGS to help us identify warning behaviours in our partners or our family members partners, before it gets worse.
Getting back my Grove!
We are often mothers, daughters, carers, wives, employees, bosses, sisters, daughter in laws, sister in laws, attentive friends, a pet parent......
But as a result, we are often on the verge of mental and/or physical burnout, and have lost ourselves in the process. If you have gone through a relationship breakdown, lost a partner, are single parenting, a carer, grieving a loss, experienced domestic and family abuse or other trauma, the impact can be really detrimental to your overall wellness and the need to find ways to escape but to self heal, and find the joy again is really important.
Many women we talk to are looking to find ways to get back their grove, either through courses, programs, events, retreats etc. We will provide information on how you can access some of the better ones out there....
Rural Women specific support
OUR PODCAST SERIES - Keeping it Real with Susan and Friends
We have a number of fabulous in person and online courses, workshops, webinars and events launching soon.
Season 1: #enoUgh - We interview experts and survivors of domestic and family violence.
Season 2: Women's Wellness - We interview experts
THE BOOKCLUB IS COMING
As requested by our clients, KONNECT ONLINE BOOKCLUB, will launch in late 2025. The bookclub will have a realistic monthly book read requirement for our clubbers and will also have a library of books you can purchase anytime that offer great insight into women wellness, parenting, co-parenting etc. All the resources have been handpicked by our specialist team.
Join Konnect Bookclub now to go into the draw for a gorgeous prize from one of our sponsors @inspirational tea company.
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Could your previous spending be added back in the asset split?
Dividing assets – could your historical or current spend be added back?
When couples separate, dividing assets can be complex, especially when one party has used, disposed of, or hidden assets before a settlement being reached.
The legal concept of "add-backs" allows courts to account for those assets by "adding back" funds into the asset pool. The recent case of Boulton & Boulton and amendments to the Family Law Act, commencing June 2025, highlight the need to be aware of the changes for anyone currently involved in property settlements.
The current three main categories of add-backs are:
Where there has been a premature distribution of assets, and property that has been disposed of or used for the benefit of one party.
Property not disclosed or accounted for, including conduct designed to intentionally, recklessly, or negligently reduce the value of an asset; and
Money spent on legal fees.
In the recent case of Boulton & Boulton, the complexities of add-backs were highlighted. It showed that the parties may need to present evidence of spend, including historical spend, when seeking to add money back into the asset pool, or when opposing an add-back. The judge in that case noted that extensive use of add-backs can significantly affect the distribution of property and that the Family Law Act allows the court to take into account any fact or circumstance to ensure justice prevails.
Boulton Case facts
Over $3 million of add-backs proposed by the wife were disputed by the husband. The court eventually added back $1,256,400 to the asset pool, which included the following transactions:
$60,200 paid by the husband to his brother's company for what the court deemed to be an illegitimate invoice;
$596,000 from the sale of a property in 2017; and
$600,000 withdrawn by the husband from a joint account.
The judge in Boulton accepted some of the wife's proposed add-backs, including a significant add-back of $600,000, which the wife claimed the husband had withdrawn from a joint account in 2010, 11 years before they separated.
The husband claimed it was unfair and onerous for the Court to expect him to undertake a tracing exercise that far back. However, the Court held the husband did not provide a satisfactory explanation for the dissipation of $600,000, causing the judge to infer the husband had retained the benefit of the funds.
Legal Fee spend
We also note that in the case of Trevi & Trevi the court held that when legal fees are paid from property that would otherwise be included in the asset pool, those amounts are almost always added back.
June 2025 Amendments to the Family Law Act
The legislative amendments to the Family Law Act, coming into effect on 10 June 2025, may change the way the court addresses add-backs. Stay tuned and get advice on this more complex topic. Our panel of lawyers can assist you.
All information in this blog is of a general nature only and is not intended to be relied upon as, nor to be a substitute for, specific legal professional advice. No responsibility for the loss occasioned to any person acting on or refraining from action as a result of any material published can be accepted
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