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"

Men are being made to feel like failures as economic stress impacting our lives making it harder for one person to to earn enough money to support a family

Maree was part of the crew that began Xtreme Zero Waste and provided the spark that started off the recycle shop in the smallest way possible

With so many debates that are flash points in our culture at the moment we talk about the multiple causes of the problem and how we move beyond it

How do we know if we have a bias and what should we do about when we're interacting with people that have their own different bias

Why knowing our family history and finding a place to stand can help us in life

How do we find our way out of the high levels of conflict that social media has inserted into our community and our lives

We look at our attitudes toward solo parents and look at the reality of life for these families

Maree joins us to discuss Trauma, why it's usually hidden and who to move beyond this.

Because of recent events we reflect on how grief affects our community before moving on to looking at how our thoughts create our feelings which create our actions which create the results in our life

Maree talks about safty plans that are gopd for families under stress also for any family that wants their kids to know what to when a earthquake hits

We start with the neuroscience of nurture, look at the difference between rules and boundaries, check out the funnel method of setting boundaries and generally look at adolesence

What's on the other side of forgiveness and are we letting people off the hook?

Local Councillor Maree talks about mastering your mind and spirituality as a wall of Te Whare Tapa Wha amongst other things

Local counsellor Maree Haworth joins us to cast some light on the growing wealth imbalance in Aotearoa New Zealand

Why's everyone struggling at the moment? are we grieving loss after 2-3 years of life with Covid? Local Counsellor Maree Haworth is in studio to lift us up and help us move through these current times

Maree talks to us about how to deal with the after effects of the Covid years and how to move back into a state of hope for the future.

With bullying coming to the surface in out main political parties this week local counselor Maree Haworth is in the studio to take a look at how wide-spread the problem is in our culture

Maree is always dealing with issues around negative self-talk in her practice so we have a look at how we stop doing it and where it comes from in the first place.

Focus on negativity or positivity - we talk with Counsellor Maree Haworth about how she operates as a strength based practice and how we might take the lessons from that approach into our lives.

Local counsellor Maree Haworth is with us as we look at how to help people who are in a bad place emotionally

We look at Brene Brown's book "The Gifts of Imperfection" and how she talks about shame. Maree Haworth is a counsellor/therapist based in Raglan.

Maree joins us in the outside studio to talk about perspectives although inevitably we start off with a look at the recent incident at the Oscars.

With a lot of division and anger stirred up through the vaccine mandates, we talk to counsellor/therapist Maree Haworth about her experiences when she visited the protest and look at how we heal our families and community.

With Trevor Mallard the most prominent triggered New Zealander we talk to councellor/therapist Maree Haworth about how to know if we're in a triggered state and why we shouldn't be making important decisions when we are.