The Hidden Impacts of Post-Migration Stress: Brains and Barriers Understanding refugee trauma and recovery requires looking at both the complex biological impacts of stress and the broader socio-cultural systems that shape settlement. While pre-migration trauma is widely recognised, emerging research…
Supporting Recovery Through Safety, Choice, Movement and Connection The effects of trauma are not limited to thoughts and memories. They can also be experienced through the body, in disrupted sleep, chronic tension, a nervous system that remains on high alert,…
Why “Just Exercise More” Doesn’t Work for Everyone For someone carrying stress, disrupted sleep, chronic pain, low confidence or the weight of displacement, generic advice to move more can feel impossible rather than helpful. That’s the gap REGEN-SEEDS was built…
What Does “Just Move More” Mean After Trauma? This year, Multicultural Health Week (31 August–6 September) makes a simple, well-evidenced case: moving the body supports mental health at every age, better sleep, more energy, calmer minds, sharper focus. For most…
The traditional framework of grief often demands a linear progression, a journey from the impact of loss toward a definitive destination called closure. However, for many survivors of trauma, conflict, and displacement, loss does not come with a neat conclusion…
Refugee survivors of torture and trauma often face profound, long-term disruptions to emotional, physiological, and psychological regulation. Prolonged exposure to violence, persecution, displacement, and loss can leave the autonomic nervous system trapped in persistent states of hyperarousal, shutdown, or structural…
When a person experiences deep, layered trauma, the impact is often held within the body. Traditional talking therapies are highly valuable, but there are moments when words are constrained by cultural stigma, overwhelming emotion, or the sheer magnitude of grief…
In Australia, the preventive health system is built on national screening programmes designed to detect illness before symptoms appear. However, for many migrant and refugee women, the complexity of the system can act as a significant barrier to access. As…
The experience of a missing loved one is a form of trauma that leaves families suspended in a state of unresolved grief. The pain of forced migration for many refugees and asylum seekers is compounded by the ongoing uncertainty of…
For a migrant or refugee woman, understanding the mental health system in Australia is not merely a matter of translation; it is a matter of autonomy. As part of a national partnership involving various organisations across Australia, STARTTS facilitates Health…
