Families, friends, sex, love, leaders and the upside of social awkwardness.
'We don't grow when we avoid the awkward relationship experiences'
Are you a grown-up? Your relationships are the laboratory in which to find out, mental health counsellor Jenny Brown says.
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Can empathy do more harm than good?
If you really want to help people and make the world a better place, step back from your gut feelings and emotions, says Yale psychology professor Paul Bloom.
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Are you leadership material?
Leadership coach Diana Jones on developing the "soft" skills that she says are critical to good leadership.
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Being socially awkward
For one in five of us, those cringe-worthy moments happen all the time and can be overwhelming. Embrace it, says psychologist and self-confessed awkward person Ty Tashir.
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'The mind-set that has people question rules – I think it’s very positive'
In 2013, writer Ariel Levy lost a 19-week-old baby on the floor of a hotel room in Mongolia. When she got back home, her marriage ended. Levy poured lessons from the unravelling of her "amazing life" into her book The Rules Do Not Apply,
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After the death of Elayn
When Nikki Gemmell's mother Elayn died after suffering from chronic pain, the Australian writer and columnist was forced to confront not only her death, but how she died. Her book After is a moving account of her complicated relationship with her mother and the effect of her mother's death.
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Ben Awa: Conscious parenting
Ben Awa is on a mission to get more fathers into what he calls 'conscious parenting'.
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Check out these three great podcasts:
BANG!
Melody Thomas leads a frank (and often entertaining) seven-part exploration of sex, sexuality and relationships.
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Are We There Yet?
Katy Gosset explores the pleasures, pratfalls & practical lessons of parenting in the modern world.
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Flying Solo
Lynda Chanwai-Earle uncovers true stories of what it takes to raise children on your own in New Zealand.
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