“You can’t make it perfect. Life has a habit of popping up to remind you of impermanence. Be graceful in letting go, in releasing that perfect dream. Let yourself come gently down to reality, to how it really is and to the constant change that happens whatever we do…” The phrase […]
Mental Health & Mindfulness
In last month’s column I wrote about how to find a therapist and a therapy method that is the right fit. Quite a significant part of the decision to attend therapy can also be around time and schedules. How and when to fit the therapy sessions into a busy and/or […]
There is a softness in the air today as I contemplate this month’s topic, soft rain outside and a real feeling of softness inside. Having been lucky enough to have had almost two weeks of heat and rest on holiday with beautiful friends, I am fuelled and resourced with a […]
According to the Health at a Glance 2023 report, Ireland has one of the highest rates of mental health illness in Europe, placing third out of 36 countries. Furthermore, in 2023 Aware’s National Survey reported that anxiety rates in Ireland are high, affecting three in four adults, 74 per cent […]
A West Cork based Counsellor and Psychotherapist is trialing a groundbreaking sponsorship programme with the aim of facilitating low-cost counselling within private practice. As well as providing Counselling and Psychotherapy services, Accredited Psychotherapist and Supervisor Markus Hohmann offers Clinical Supervision and Case-Consultancy at his practice ‘The Blue Room – Consulting’ […]
“One swallow does not a summer make, nor one fine day”. I spotted two swallows one morning this week, one swooping low near the bridge in Skibbereen and the other on the road to Union Hall. Both filled me with mixed emotions, first a deeply instinctual, primal, sense of joy […]