Counsellor Maree Haworth wants us to talk about our feelings. We learn about the Feelings Wheel and Maree talks about her early experiences as a young adult supressing feelings and getting physically ill as a result.

Maree is ready to talk people-pleasing and Aaron gets to be a subject for the discussion!

OK, it's not that easy but Maree has some good tips on how to stop overthinking and an explanation about why it doesn't serve us and also how to tell the difference between useful thinking and over thinking.

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.