Let's Talk with Maree: Recent Episodes
Raglan Community Radio
Each fortnight we talk to local counsellor/therapist Maree Haworth and chart a course to good mind health
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
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.
What's the difference between life roles and wearing a mask? Is it acting or preparing ourselves for a difficult situation when we plan how we're going to be in a particular place and time
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.