10/09/2026
Today’s Women’s Health Week theme is TO BREATHE 💗 — a focus on mental wellbeing. And today is also R U OK? Day, our reminder to check in with the people around us.
So today I’m going to do exactly what the day is asking:
How are you, actually?
Not the automatic answer we give when someone asks in passing. The honest one.
Life can become so full that our own mental wellbeing ends up being the thing we check in with last — if at all.
For many women, there are a lot of roles to hold and people to care for. You can appear to be managing everything around you while underneath it all, you’re struggling. Both of those things can be true at the same time.
And looking after our health isn’t only about how we fuel ourselves, how much we move or how strong our bodies are. Our mental wellbeing and nervous system need care and support too.
If your honest answer today is that you’re not doing so well, please treat that as something worth paying attention to rather than something you need to push down and keep carrying.
Reach out to someone you trust — a partner, friend, family member, your GP or another health professional who can support you.
You’re allowed to be the person who needs the check-in, not only the person doing the checking. 💗
And if you’re doing okay today, perhaps this is your nudge to ask someone else:
R U OK?
And then give them the space to answer.
There’s something else I really like about today’s Women’s Health Week theme: To Breathe.
Sometimes looking after ourselves starts with creating just a little space — to breathe, to notice how we’re actually feeling, and to recognise what we might need.
Perhaps that’s today’s version of Do It Anyway. 💗