Let's Talk with Maree

Coming Out The Other Side

Wed, 17 Dec 2025 11:25:00 +1300

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.

Encouragement

Wed, 27 Aug 2025 11:02:00 +1300

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.

Communicating with Children

Wed, 30 Jul 2025 10:40:00 +1300

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.

Let's Talk Boundaries with Maree

Wed, 07 May 2025 12:00:00 +1300

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.

Music for Mindhealth

Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:00:00 +1300

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.

A Christmas Present For Raglan

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 11:47:57 +1300

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.

How Functional is our National Family

Wed, 20 Nov 2024 12:02:37 +1300

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

Circuit Breakers for the Mind

Wed, 23 Oct 2024 12:02:09 +1300

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.

Te Whare Tapa Wha

Wed, 25 Sep 2024 03:15:00 +1300

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 Decline of Social Media

Wed, 28 Aug 2024 12:25:50 +1300

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

Community or Anger

Wed, 05 Jun 2024 11:44:34 +1300

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.

Raising Humans

Wed, 08 May 2024 11:44:13 +1300

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

Without a Vision The People Will Perish

Wed, 10 Apr 2024 12:53:19 +1300

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.

Benefits of Community (and Recycle Races)

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 12:05:24 +1300

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

Let's Talk with Maree

Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:44:12 +1300

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

Do Employers Also Have To Be Counsellors

Wed, 06 Dec 2023 12:40:06 +1300

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

Getting Equipped to Handle Social Media

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 12:18:49 +1300

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.

Making Decisions While We're Angry

Wed, 11 Oct 2023 13:17:44 +1300

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

Let's Talk Community with Maree

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 12:09:06 +1300

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

Resilience & Tenacity

Wed, 13 Sep 2023 11:38:24 +1300

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

Responding From Our Trauma

Wed, 30 Aug 2023 11:54:38 +1300

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

Are We Overwhelmed By Social Media Too?

Wed, 16 Aug 2023 11:50:12 +1300

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

How Does A Counsellor Deal With Grief

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 11:31:36 +1300

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"

Economic Stress = Personal Stress

Wed, 07 Jun 2023 11:39:07 +1300

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

How Kahu's Nest Began

Wed, 10 May 2023 11:38:42 +1300

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

Do We Want To Stay Angry?

Wed, 26 Apr 2023 11:47:40 +1300

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

Confonting Our Own Bias

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 12:07:42 +1300

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

Remembering Our Roots with Maree

Wed, 29 Mar 2023 11:24:53 +1300

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

Conflict and Resolution

Wed, 15 Mar 2023 11:46:02 +1300

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

Let's Talk About Solo Parenting

Wed, 01 Mar 2023 11:37:51 +1300

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

THe Hidden Nature of Trauma

Wed, 15 Feb 2023 11:38:19 +1300

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

Grief and How Our Thoughlife Leads to Our Actions

Wed, 21 Dec 2022 11:23:58 +1300

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

Has Your Family Got A Safety Plan?

Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:00:39 +1300

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

Maree Talks Nurture, Rules, Boundaries & Adolesence

Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:53:57 +1300

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

Let's Talk Forgivenes

Wed, 09 Nov 2022 11:41:13 +1300

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

Let's talk with Maree - Master your mind & spirituality

Wed, 26 Oct 2022 11:20:08 +1300

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

Hungry Children in New Zealand

Wed, 12 Oct 2022 12:29:00 +1300

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

Let's Talk with Maree - Surprised by Grief

Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:54:39 +1300

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

Moving Our Community to a State of Hope After Covid.

Wed, 14 Sep 2022 11:56:05 +1300

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.

Let's Talk About Bullying

Wed, 17 Aug 2022 11:48:51 +1300

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

The Roots of Negative Self Talk

Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:46:56 +1300

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.

Stength Based Practice and a Strength Based Life

Wed, 06 Jul 2022 12:06:19 +1300

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.

The Difference Between Sympathy and Empathy

Wed, 25 May 2022 12:19:02 +1300

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

Shame - Let's Talk with Maree

Wed, 27 Apr 2022 12:59:37 +1300

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.

Perspectives

Wed, 30 Mar 2022 13:09:55 +1300

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.

Counsellor's view of the anti-mandate protests

Wed, 16 Mar 2022 12:48:30 +1300

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.

A Triggered Nation - Let's Talk with Maree

Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:36:16 +1300

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.