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