Tag: Women’s Health

Into 2026

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date December 22, 2025

From creative practice to Creative Authority: how the Creative Women’s Association moved from grassroots creativity to national workforce reform in just three months, reshaping how Australia recognises creative labour, women’s work, and economic value.

Tags Applied Creative Intelligence, Arts & Provenance, Certification, creative authority, Creative Health, Creative Trades, Creative Women’s Association, creative workforce, provenance, Social Prescribing, Soft Infrastructure, Soft Systems Design, Women’s Economic Participation, Women’s Health, Workforce Reform

Creative Health & Wellbeing Wellness

When Creativity Becomes Calm: How Expressive Acts Rewire the Stressed Female Brain

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date August 18, 2025

Creative expression—from singing to sketching—isn’t just a pastime: it lowers cortisol, boosts feel-good hormones, and resets the female nervous system for calmer, more balanced days.

Tags Art Therapy, cortisol reduction, Creative Expression, Creative Women’s Association, expressive writing, scientific wellness, singing for stress, tress regulation, Women’s Health

Gut Health, Microbiome & Women's Wellbeing Social Prescribing, Creative Health & Community Care The Architecture of Women's Health

Designing Wellness

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 10, 2025

Discover how interior architecture—through elements like color and spatial scale—can influence emotional states, brainwave patterns, and vagus nerve activity, revealing a groundbreaking link between built environments and the gut-brain connection.

Tags Architecture and Wellness, brainwave activity, Built Environment, Creative Health, Creative Women’s Association, emotional regulation, Gut Health, HRV, Interior Architecture, Social Prescribing, vagus nerve, Wellness Design, Women’s Health

Social Prescribing, Creative Health & Community Care Sound, Voice & Music in Health

Music Isn’t Just Entertainment

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 10, 2025

Is music just for fun — or a prescription waiting to be taken seriously? New research from the European Journal of Public Health reveals how music boosts mental health, memory, and quality of life, especially for people over 40. Read why the Creative Women’s Association says it’s time to reframe music as medicine.

Tags aging, arts in health, arts-based interventions, Creative Health, Creative Women’s Association, CWA, dopamine, mental health, music and health, music engagement, music not just entertainment, music therapy, Oxford Academic, public health, vagus nerve, wellbeing, Women’s Health

Creative Health & Wellbeing Women's Physiology, Anatomy & Cycles

The Shut Down Is Physiological

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 7, 2025

The shutdown is real — women’s nervous systems break down under constant stress, and society still expects them to smile through it. Here’s why that ends now.

Tags CWA Lens, Female Health Advocacy, Female Physiology, Gendered Health Systems, Hormonal Health, Mental Load, Nervous System Burnout, Systemic Stress, Women’s Burnout, Women’s Health

Creative Health & Wellbeing Movement, Somatics & Body Awareness

Why Ecosomatics Matter

Post author By CreativeWomensAssociation
Post date July 6, 2025

Somatics reconnects women to their bodies. Ecosomatics reminds us our health is tied to the Earth. Together, they offer a radical, grounded approach to real wellness.