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ongoing Challedges...

Ongoing challenges in important areas of everyday life, like marriage, whānau and work, can have big impacts on your mental health. It gets worse when one problem starts leading to others. Many people face a range of long-lasting problems, disagreements and threats in their daily lives. These can include problems with the people close to us such as a partner or children; love or sex problems; ongoing illness or disability; or problems with work (mahi) or school (kura). These problems may come on top of challenges you’ve been through earlier in life.  It’s especially tough if those earlier challenges were never resolved and still cause you to react strongly. The results of this stress can show up in any or all areas of our wellbeing. A number of things can contribute to it, for example: not being able to achieve your goalsbeing frustrated by what’s expected of you money problemsphysical disabilitychronic illnessongoing difficulties with people in your...

A Message to Those Who Think They’re Too Old to Get Busy Living

A Message to Those Who Think They’re Too Old to Get Busy Living I don’t understand it when people think it’s too late to make changes in their life and start living their life the way they want. Is there a rule that I missed that says after we reach a certain age, that we’re stuck with our life the way it is? Someone who’s 35 might feel like it’s too late while another person is 55 and feel it’s too late. That just proves that it doesn’t matter your age. It’s your perception. Don’t you think the person who’s 55 will wish they were 35? They’ll wish they could go back 20 years and go after their dreams or change how their life is. Thinking it’s too late to get a life that you want is one of the biggest myths holding you back in life. The only time it is too late to do anything is when you’re physically not here anymore. Until then, don’t waste this only chance at life that you have. If I comp...