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Do we understand our baby? Birth

Diana Radeva March, 2020

In this series of articles (‘Do we understand our child?’) Diana Radeva, child and adolescent psychotherapist sets out to consider the emotional life of children from birth onwards; and how relationships between children and parents evolve over time. It is a view of human growth, which recognises the importance of […]

Free yoga for everyone

WCP Staff March, 2020

A yoga studio that started off in a little cob building (the Boab Centre) in Kealkill 20 years ago is now Europe’s leading online yoga platform. Based back in her native Netherlands since 2011, Esther Ekhart has launched a Relief Program on her online yoga platform, EkhartYoga, for people around […]

Starting with fruit

WCP Staff March, 2020

Starting to grow fruit sounds daunting, but fruit-growing is less demanding than growing vegetables or annual flowers, and most soft fruit is really easy, as Deborah Ballard, Future Forests explains – especially now that so many of us have the time to work in the garden. If you have the […]

Time to cook

WCP Staff March, 2020

Jacques Brennan is the author of ‘Hungry Soul – How to Cook 100 per cent Vegan’ and is a frequent collaborator with the West Cork arts and health organisation MusicAlive. He is also a guest food artist for World Mental Health Day events at 49 North Street in Skibbereen…and occasional […]

Returning home to ourselves

Susan O Regan March, 2020

Like everyone else no doubt, I’ve been struggling to believe, let alone accept, what is currently going on in our world. It feels so surreal or even at times as if we are in some futuristic novel. Yet it is very real and it is happening now. So, whether we […]

The best hand creams for repairing dry skin

Sherna Malone March, 2020

In this time of Coivid-19, take a moment and think about how many times you’ve washed and sanitised your hands today. Both entirely necessary I might add, but repetitive hand washing can damage the integrity of the skin, causing hands to become dry, sore and irritated, and if the skin […]

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