When student couple Mike and Cathy Collard dropped out of Oxford University and travelled to West Cork to look for a house up a remote mountain between Glengarriff and Bantry, they were searching for a simpler life, as far away from the perils of nuclear power and American imperialism as […]
Noreen Coomey of Transition Coaching and Psychotherapy looks at why we may resist change and how we can navigate this challenge. According to Irish playwright, George Bernard Shaw “Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”. Change is inevitable and a constant force […]
In April, Dingle resident Catherine Merrigan, 58, will pack her bag and travel across to Skellig Michael, the spectacular rock and UNESCO World Heritage Site, where she spends six months of every year as an island guide and warden to over 8,000 breeding puffins, which arrive there in the spring, […]
Happy New Year! I hope you had a peaceful and relaxing Christmas Break, and are feeling great about 2024. This month I decided to focus on a fascinating compound called sulforaphane – a big name with big health benefits! In fact, it is one of the most potent food-derived anti-carcinogens […]
The opportunity to give more attention to my inner landscape during the period between Christmas and until days after the new year, had me living moment by moment. This time also led to my thinking about the preciousness of such things. Perhaps you’ve had a good dose of it too, […]
In January 2024, I will have been working with psychotherapy and counselling clients for three years. The majority of clients I have worked with have been challenged by suicide. From thoughts of suicide, known as suicidal ideation, to actively planning a suicide or to having been bereaved by suicide. Although […]