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A Simple Tool to Help You Make Sense of Life

By: Sheridan Voysey According to the experts, writing in a journal can help you reduce stress, increase creativity, solve problems, and manage conflict. I’ve also found it to be an incredibly helpful tool for making sense of our personal…

Was Your Bub Born in 2018? There’s a Free Bible Waiting for Them

By: Hope Media The Bible: it’s still the most read, quoted and revered book ever published. But there’s a generation now growing up in an increasingly secular Australia, who have less and less Bible awareness. That’s why Bible Society…

5 Signs That It’s Time to Look for a Counsellor

When life kicks you, it’s easy to become disoriented. Counselling is simply a way of pressing the “reset button.” If relationships matter to you, there’s one important principle you need to bear in mind: it takes two to tango. A relationship…

How to Motivate Kids – and Why Rewards aren’t the Answer

How do you motivate kids? It may be one of the biggest struggles parents and teachers experience. We remind them to clean their room or do their schoolwork. They reply that it’s too hard.We cajole them to turn off their screens and play outside…

School Holidays the Perfect Time to Pack Your Christmas Shoebox for a Child Overseas

It’s that time of year again: time to take a special shopping trip, pack a shoebox of Christmas gifts for a child in a developing nation, in preparation for Operation Christmas Child.   The famous event, held each year by the international…

Christopher Robin Movie Review – Is It Too Bleak?

Clearly, we just can’t enough of pooh. Winnie the Pooh that is. Not to be confused with last year’s Goodbye Christopher Robin and its origin story of our favourite bear, Christopher Robinis an imaginary tale about a boy who’s too grown…
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Burnout Begins With Weariness. Here’s How to Stop it Going Further

Robert Coles, the eminent American psychiatrist, once wrote a book called The Call of Service. Collating his work over three decades with charity workers, civil rights campaigners and community volunteers, Coles explored the reasons why people…

Surviving the Fortnite Craze: A Guide for Frustrated Parents

Are you tearing your hair out over your child’s Fortnite gaming habits? Is the all-consuming console game affecting your tween or teen’s mood and sleep? Taking over their social life and dragging them away from sports, homework and chores—not…

SACBA Conference 2018 – A success

Some of our Riverland Life FM team attended the SA Community Broadcasters Conference last weekend. They got to network with some wonderful people, listen to great speakers and visit other stations to bring fresh ideas back to our station! …

Review – Ant-Man and the Wasp Bring Back The Fun to Marvel

If Avengers: Infinity War had you gasping for air and longing for the comical days of Arnie as Mr Freeze, Ant-Man and the Wasp is the superhero flick for you. Taking itself much less seriously than others in the Marvel Universe, Ant-Man…

Ways to Stay Warm this Winter Without Blowing your Budget

By: Jari Smith Winter is here! The season of hot chocolate, knitted jumpers and chapped lips. Although many parts of Australia don’t get as chilly as others, some of us can’t handle even slightly cool temperatures without a hot water…

Avengers: Infinity War When Our Heroes Fail Us

  By Laura Bennett If you haven’t seen Avengers: Infinity War don’t worry, I won’t spoil anything for you. What I will say though, the latest film from Marvel has some twists. It’s no surprise given it’s the 19th film in…

God Was There in My Darkest Days: Human Nature’s Andrew Tierney on ‘Finding Faith

God Was There in My Darkest Days: Human Nature’s Andrew Tierney on ‘Finding Faith’ By: Laura Bennett If you didn’t have a Human Nature poster on your bedroom wall in the 90s, you probably knew a teenager who did. The singing,…

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Movie Review

By: Bob Hoose Claire Dearing is different now. She’s had a change of heart. Whereas she used to be all about the business of managing the dinosaur theme park Jurassic World, she’s now much more invested in protecting the endangered…

How Hugging Your Child Could Make Them Smarter

By Katrina Roe A new study of babies has found that hugging a child helps their brain grow! And the more you hug, the more it grows. The other day we had some friends round for dinner. As they were leaving, their baby asked for a cuddle.…