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What makes for a healthy mind platter

HeatherJoy Campbell — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 08:00:29 +0000

A healthy mind platter that nourishes your mental wellbeing is a great choice to minimise stress and anxiety, all year, not just at Christmas.

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Banking on your mental health

HeatherJoy Campbell — Sat, 04 Oct 2025 08:45:55 +0000

Bank on your mental health and build your mental wealth. HeatherJoy tells her story.

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How Laughter Yoga is easing Australia’s loneliness epidemic

HeatherJoy Campbell — Wed, 31 Jul 2024 06:19:43 +0000

Laughter clubs, practising laughter yoga in community, could be part of the solution to Australia's loneliness epidemic.

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Depression and exercise: could laughter yoga help?

HeatherJoy Campbell — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 05:34:22 +0000

Newly-published research that exercise ought to be part of core treatment for depression has laughter yoga practitioners celebrating. Find out why.

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How Laughter Yoga is easing Australia’s loneliness epidemic

HeatherJoy Campbell — Tue, 13 Feb 2024 03:22:10 +0000

Laughter clubs, practising laughter yoga in community, deserve to be part of the solution to Australia's worsening loneliness epidemic.

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How Laughter Yoga Can Help People with Parkinson’s

HeatherJoy Campbell — Thu, 13 Apr 2023 02:05:00 +0000

This article shines the spotlight on evidence-based reasons for Laughter Yoga supporting people with Parkinson's disease, and their carers.

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Be part of The Laughie Challenge for mental health

HeatherJoy Campbell — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 21:17:00 +0000

Australia, you are challenged to laugh for mental wellbeing (among other health benefits). Grab your phone and record your laugh. Find out why.

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Best gift is mental well-being

HeatherJoy Campbell — Sun, 06 Dec 2020 03:20:00 +0000

The gift of laughter yoga leader training was actually a tool for my mental well-being.

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R U OK? Day 2020

HeatherJoy Campbell — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 22:30:10 +0000

The global health crisis triggered by COVID-19 and its impact on mental health makes R U OK? Day 2020 even more important.

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Laughter response to negative self-talk

HeatherJoy Campbell — Wed, 10 Jan 2018 22:49:23 +0000

The Happydemic's Heather Joy describes two laughter yoga exercises involving nonsensical utterances to combat unhelpful, negative, self-talk.

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7 amazing health benefits of laughter

HeatherJoy Campbell — Tue, 29 Nov 2016 06:03:43 +0000

When Dr Madan Kataria said there was a lot of medicine in laughter, he wasn't kidding. Proven health benefits are far-ranging. Certified laughter yoga teacher Heather Joy lists just some key health benefits of laughter.

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How can we lose something as natural as breathing?

HeatherJoy Campbell — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 04:39:20 +0000

Getting caught up in the seriousness of life, somehow we can forget something as natural as breathing: laughter.

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