Taking five minutes out from the frenzy that characterises this time of year to look at how 2014 has treated you.

Sometimes we feel really stuck in a situation. Stuck in a relationship. Stuck in a job. Stuck financially. Whichever way we look we seem trapped, and that is stress-inducing.

Let's face it - life is easier with confidence. Here are four techniques to raise your confidence that you can start applying today.

You know that feeling, that nagging feeling that something is a little off. It might be the job, the relationship, a friendship or a family thing. But you have an underlying feeling of unease.

The run-in to Christmas creates a perfect storm for Kiwis to become exhausted. Why?

Do you like your job? Do you believe in what you do? Do you feel like you are making the world a teeny tiny bit better as you clock in for your eight hours?

As i was travelling through beautiful Bali a while back, a taxi driver said something very interesting to me when we were doing the usual good natured haggle over rate.

Pushing through when you have little in the tank can be a fact of our busy lives. So much to do, so little time. Where can you find a little extra juice to get yourself engaged when you are in that 3pm low energy slump?

We are half way through the year; 2014 is whizzing past at breakneck speed. Often by now our New Year's resolutions, set in the glow and intention of summer sunshine, are all but forgotten.

I see many clients who come to me as their last ditch attempt to stop dieting forever and to create habits of health that last a lifetime, rather than the latest fad.

I get lots of lovely emails from readers when these columns or my weekly blog resonate with an issue they are facing in their life.

The practical American philosopher Buckminster Fuller famously said "The minute you begin to do what you want to do, it's a different kind of life".

I have had a flare up of an old knee injury which has been most frustrating.

This really is the mantra of modern living. How many times a day do you find yourself saying "I'd love to, but I don't have time.

Does someone in your life keep hurting you? It happens to the best of us. Experiencing pain and hurt is part of the human experience.

Relationships can be so full of drama, at home, at work, at the school gates, with family and friends.

Sadness is important, and allowing ourselves to acknowledge we feel sad because we have lost something is important.

Some of us are so fiercely independent it can be not just our greatest strength, but - as it often the case - our greatest weakness too.