Mental Health

New Zealand needs 1,000 more psychologists, and it’s hurting people

Trigger warning: This article discusses mental health, suicide and alcoholism.

This new mindfulness series gives rangatahi the tools for survival

Just in time for mental health awareness week, Re: is launching a new hauora series.

Learn hīkoi aroā mindful walking with Manu | Mānawa Maiea te Atawhai l Ep 2

“I thought I was good at staying happy and seeing the best out of every situation. But I wasn’t really good at healing and dealing with…

Learn a meditation for feeling safe with Zakara | Mānawa Maiea te Atawhai | Ep 1

“I didn’t know how to be safe, because no one teaches you how to be safe."

Learn yoga with Christine | Mānawa Maiea te Atawhai | Ep 3

In this episode, we practice a yoga sequence in te reo Māori with Christine Russell.

Learn māuri tau mindful meditation with Te Aorangi | Mānawa Maiea te Atawhai | Ep 4

In this episode of Mānawa Maiea te Atawhai, we learn Māuri Tau, mindful meditation.

Learn mindful communication with Wāti | Mānawa Maiea te Atawhai | Ep 5

“I wish I knew about mindful communication earlier."

Two thirds of dairy farmers report mental health issues. They tell us why

Mental health is a big issue in the dairy industry.

How misusing ethnicity contributes to anti-Pacific racism and victim blaming

The biggest subcluster of the current Covid outbreak centres on a church in Māngere, Auckland.

Conversion therapy will be banned, with sentence of up to 5 years’ imprisonment

“There are so many people that will have their lives changed because of this.”

Why world champion rower Zoe McBride walked away from the Olympics

“I was just so tired of standing on the scales and then letting that decide how I felt about myself"

Ahi Kōmau - He Kākano Ahau: Wawatatia, Series 2 | Episode 3:

Can mātauranga Māori help us find solutions and understanding on suicide prevention?

A near-fatal accident gave me the courage to tell my family I was trans

At 18, Mason nearly died after jumping head-first into a pool drunk. He tells his story.

Over half of psychologists have scrapped their waiting lists because they are too long

A new survey shows clinical psychologists in private practice can’t keep up.

Checking your phone at work just makes you more bored, study finds

When you're bored at work, do you aimlessly scroll through your phone?

Comedowns are the worst, but they don’t have to be

What if it’s not the drug that gives comedowns, but instead the way people take it?

1 in 3 students facing housing deprivation had serious thoughts of suicide in the past year

 

New research shows high school students facing housing deprivation have double the rates of depression and suicidal thoughts. 

Based on an analysis of the latest Youth2000 survey,…

Eleven stories that teach us what masculinity really means

We've rounded up a bunch of stories that show us what it means to be a man.

Mitchell's Here - Āta | 48Hours

A simple being ventures to The Great Altar. What they witness cannot be unseen.

Grand National 2nd Runner-up

Nominated for:

Ant TImpson Solo/Duo Award

See the rest of the Grand…

How young men struggle with body image pressures | One For The Boys | Ep 4

A new bodybuilder and group of friends discuss body image struggles

Love you bro, no homo: talking about closeness between guys

“Bro rub some sunscreen on my back, no homo.”

Why are some guys uncomfortable holding each other’s hands or sleeping in the same bed? And why is…

Toxic masculinity makes it difficult for Pacific men to be vulnerable

“Tough like an armour truck, the only medicine I know, harden up!”

Men can't talk about their feelings and it's a deadly problem | One For The Boys | Ep 3

Suck it up. Harden Up. Be a man about it. How many times have you heard these words?

Men tell us where they feel most and least masculine

The Masculinity Project is an exploration and documentation of what it means to be a man in Aotearoa

A third of young people develop a mental health problem after a concussion, new research shows

The literature review involved nearly 90,000 under 18-year-olds in nine countries including NZ.

How learning te reo Māori helped me heal my mental health

“Last year, I started learning te reo Māori and my perspective on everything changed.”

Like many of our rangatahi, Katelyn Vaha’akolo struggled with her mental health as…

Young workers in NZ are three times more burnt out than others

New Zealand workers under the age of 30 are three times more likely to be burnt out than other demographics.

Do you feel like you’ve got nothing…

Our One for the Boys series is here. Check out the release party.

Re: celebrated the launch of our new masculinity series One for the Boys at the Grey Lynn Bowling Club in Auckland last night. 

There was pizza, laughs…

TEEKS on music as a form of healing

“It’s about reestablishment or reclamation of whakaaro Māori because I know our tupuna were emotionally aware and conscious of the power and strength in vulnerability and…