COMMENT: Not everyone is long and lithe - it's time adverts celebrated a range of body shapes and sizes and recognised beauty is diverse.

We all know how depressing it is to put on weight. This doctor has some tips of his own.

Greg Bruce's wife is a yoga teacher. She thinks him taking it up will change his life. Is she right?

Mental health campaigner tries to get video link removed.

John Hinckley Jr committed one of history's most famous crimes, all for the sake of a desperate delusion. In his mind, it was love.

She's not a hypnotist, but she can convince you that you're a criminal or were traumatised as a child. Elizabeth Loftus has ways of making you think.

Actress Carey Mulligan has urged people to keep close ties with relatives with dementia.

Could this psychology teacher's tips be the secret to a life without stress?

After working so hard she collapsed, a Kiwi woman became a mental health advocate - she wants to share some tips to help you work life in 2017.

Prepare to get stumped all over again with a look back at the trickiest optical illusions from this year.

The most 'trendy' psychotherapy around, here are five tips to get you started.

I often get asked "How do I cope with Christmas", which is weird, because it's the most wonderful time of the year apparently. But

The RSA is calling for post-traumatic stress disorder to be referred to as a battle wound to properly reflect what service people go through.

Start de-stressing as soon as you can once on holiday

Photographer says people opposed to gender diversity need to 'get over it'.

Leading ED doctors are calling for New Zealand's drinking culture to change because they are sick of dealing with drunks.

What makes people feel that they're at risk of losing someone, even when another part of them knows it isn't real? Psychotherapist Kyle Macdonald explains.

A mother humiliated over her children's bad behaviour by a fellow supermarket shopper has posted a heartbreaking open letter on Facebook.

School aged children don't know Mike King as the funny man, he's instead the guy on stage telling them it's ok to talk about problems and to ask for help.

A prisoner was restrained for 21 hours a day after forensic mental health team would not treat him, a campaigner says.

The teacher having an inappropriate relationship with a 13-year-old girl was not fired from the school where he worked over his contact with the girl, an inquest heard.

Every year around 500 New Zealanders take their own lives. When it comes to teens, we have the highest suicide rate in the world according a report by the OECD. Joining Tristram Clayton is comedian-turned mental health advocate Mike King who runs The Key to Life Charity to find out what is being down to turn these numbers around.

A jury has convicted Dylann Roof in the racially motivated slayings of nine black church members in South Carolina.

Many people find themselves in relationships and friendships where they feel their well of compassion has run dry. Kyle MacDonald explains what happens when we care too much.

Reiha McLelland's mother broke down in tears as inquest hears 13-year-old may have wanted parents to know about her plans to harm herself.

Reiha McLelland would be alive today if it were not for her "inappropriate" relationship with her intermediate school teacher, the inquest into her death has been told.

School leavers remarkably unaffected by earthquakes, surprising research finds.

Reiha McLelland, 13, was under great pressure to keep secret her relationship with her former teacher Sam Back, an inquest has heard.

Top sports stars Israel Folau and Manu Vatuvei are switching codes - and touring for God.

Happiness has become a modern obsession. Searching for it and holding on to it have become motivating forces for how we live our lives.