Let's Talk with Maree

Where are our role models for diffusing anger? We talk to local counsellor Maree about anger and what to do with it. Everyone acknowledges anger is on the rise in our culture so we ask what is the purpose of anger, what do we do when we get angry and is there anyone in our culture who's got this figured out.

In terms of harm done to users and society, alcohol is the worst of the drugs. Maree joins us in studio to ask why we treat it as something separate to other drugs and talks about experiences from her life.

We've just had a few months off this podcast while Maree has been undergoing chemotherapy. The treatment is over and Maree is emerging out the other side and is back in the studio to talk about this very personal journey.

We talk about the value of encouragement and how it helps our mind health, our friend's mind health and the development of our children.

Maree is frustrated that children are being bought to counsellors with problems to "fix" that actually originate within the family, or maybe at school and wants to teach us how to communicate with our children and to deal with these problems at their source.

The issue of boundaries is intertwined with almost every issue that Maree deals with as a counsellor and something she says can make a big difference in people's lives if they understand it.

We've long heard the warnings that bad music will influence your kid's minds but why haven't we looked at the converse that good music can have positive effects on our mind health. We look at the science behind this interesting thought and how do we know which is the good stuff.

The new mural on the water-tower has just been completed and Maree and Aaron talk about how it reflects Raglan's spirit and values.

Following yesterday's hikoi opposing ACT's treaty principle's bill we look the good things that have come out of it and examine the country from the point of view of family dynamics

How to stop the run-away train in your mind where you can't stop beating up on yourself - or can't stop focusing on things that have gone wrong.

Mason Durie's Maori Mental Health model is the topic during Mental Health Awareness week. Maree takes us through the model and then discusses a scoring system to help people do a quick assessment of the lives.

The mind health of our nation and the effect political discourse and social media is having on it and how we can find another path

We talk about the community response during the power cuts last week and also mix it up with some political anger and get honest about the sort of people we are when we engage with anger compared to what we're like when we're focused on helping our neighbours.

How essential is an emotionally nourishing environment for children, what do we mean when we talk about family and how does it prepare us for adult life

We talk about the importance of having a vision for our community, and for our nation - and try to counter the tendency to focus on negative politics and people who make us angry.

We look back at the Recycled Trolley Derby which (which preceeded the Recycled Raft Race) and how events like this are great for building community and great for a our mind health

It's the end of 2023 and time to make the most of the break that's coming up for some (but not all) of us

We continue our conversation about employment relationships, this time with Maree bring her perspective as a counsellor to the tricky issue of relationships between staff and their bosses or managers

With our social media feeds full of people trying to manipulate us we talk with Maree about how not to have our buttons pushed and how to hold on to ourselves.

With a lot of anger around politics at the moment we look at what happens to us when we're in a state of anger and how to get out of that state so we can act calmly

How much of a difference does community make to our wellbeing and our ability to bounce back during difficult times

This time we get Maree's take on resilience and how to draw it out of others, as well as ourselves

What happens when past trauma gets in the way of our reactions to current life.

Our relaxation time is now filled with constant stimulation at the same time as people are complaining about being overwhelmed by life.

With large parts of our community grieving at the moment we talk to local counsellor Maree Haworth about how to handle the early stages of raw grief when no one is interested in the "7 stages of grief"