For many, Christmas isn't a wonderful time of year. Grief, family conflict, financial pressure and loneliness can make for a sad and stressful season. How do you navigate your way to feeling joy?

Are you feeling overwhelmed or stressed this time of year? Maree shares tips on how to choose joy this season.

As we head into this busy, crazy time of year, Maree contemplates what is important. To create wonderful memories give someone your time.

Maree interviews Sarah Laurence about the realities, challenges and joy of fostering Tamariki New Zealand. Sarah has been a caregiver for OT fore the past 9 years.

Have you given yourself permission to take up space in this world or do you judge yourself to the point where you have to wear flattering clothes, refuse to have photos taken or try and shrink in social situations? If so, then this episode is for you!

This week: Maree finishes this series by getting down and personal on masturbation, fantasies and sexual quirks.

Interview with Douglas Seivers Jarrett on dating, sex, relationships all from a queer perspective. We discuss how to keep intimacy alive after the honeymoon is over.

Maree delves into the subject of dating, sex, relationships and then marrying a woman. What does intimacy look like as we mature?

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This week: A new series talking about sex. Kate Wild discusses all of her dating disasters over the years while navigating single life as a mature woman.

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This Week: Do you need to give yourself permission to be happy? Are you happy with what you have or are you a person is is always striving for the next 'best' thing to make yourself happy?

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This week: Maree interviews Renee Dingwall about her life before, during and after catching COVID and ending up wheelchair bound. Life has never gone back to 'normal' for Renee so how does she accept it and move forward?

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This week: Do you wish you could pull the finger to the world? To live life out loud on your terms? Maree discusses just that, how she ditches shame, unwanted opinions, unhealthy friends and more in the hopes of becoming more authentically herself.

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This week: Maree, with permission from the author, Martha E. Wright, reads an article on ageing relationships and how complacency and routine can result in a lack of intimacy.

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This Week: Maree shares how losing her career through a botched surgery ended up challenging what she believed happiness to be. She had to find purpose and meaning in order to heal.

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This week: Maree discusses how getting to know our true self, including the darkness can result in having more self compassion. Then we are able to share our true self with others.

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This week: Maree tackles the taboo subject of suicide as she tries to make sense of the complexities surrounding it. This episode is dedicated to Chloe. May you rest in peace.

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This week: Continuing on with reclaiming our mojo, Maree discusses how we can challenge our own limiting beliefs and reframe them in order to live a more positive, joyful life. And how setting tiny goals could be an answer.

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This Week: Maree interviews Elise O'Shea, who has a life coaching practice called Soulful Strides. Elise discusses some of the strategies we can use to reconnect with our inner spark.

A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air. This week: Have you lost your spark? Is it an effort to find the energy or the positive in anything? Perhaps you've lost your mojo. Maree discusses how to get it back.

CREATIVITY AND JOY - The final in our creative series; Maree talks to Craig Ledgans on his perspective of THE COSTUMIERS BALL WEEKEND as a crew member. He shares his joy of putting together a visual feast and enjoying everyone's reactions. A show about joy and resilience with Maree Gibson, produced by Manawatū People's Radio with the support of New Zealand An Air.