Having a hard time getting through?

Advice to help manage the big emotions and challenges that many of us are going through right now.

The advice on these pages is from our communities of wise tāngata/people who’ve been through traumatic or mental distress experiences in the past. Along with a registered psychologist, they’ve gifted us some sage advice on how they would manage, and are managing, some of the big emotions and challenges that many of us are feeling and going through right now.

Managing mixed emotions at level 4

Right now, we’re living in a strange and unpredictable Aotearoa. Managing this sudden change and uncertainty can tr...

Helping whānau and friends through the tough times ...

Living with loved ones can be stressful right now. Managing the changes between alert levels and our whanaungatanga/r...

Hauora hinengāro / Mental health supports and servi...

Therapeutic, peer-led or medical mental health supports and services can be an important part of our kete/toolkit to ...

Managing manawa pā / triggered thoughts and emotion...

Covid-19 is continuing to impact on the lives of many people across Aotearoa.

I am living with manawa pā/triggered thoughts and emotio...

Living through the impacts of COVID-19 has triggered new and old manawa pā/d...

I need to access mental health supports and services

Therapeutic, peer-led or medical hauora hinengāro/mental health supports and...

I’m having a hard time getting through

Tips to support someone you care about

tāmomi / overwhelmed by mixed emotions

I’m delighted to be getting back to my routine and seeing my whānau and loved ones again, but I also have manawa p...

Managing mixed emotions through the levels translated

Translated into the following Asian languages: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Hin...

Helping whānau and friends through the tough times trans...

Translated into the following languages: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnames...