Are you a busy woman with more commitments than you have time to manage at your best? Perhaps you are working, a mother, a carer, or all three, stressed and struggling to catch-up. Do you feel like a juggler trying to keep all the balls in the air at the […]
Bodyfix Physical and Holistic Therapies Centre has just opened on Townsend Street in Skibbereen (premises above Roycroft Cycles) where rehabilitation and holistic therapist Veronica Stynes will be helping individuals of all ages to maintain their health and fitness and prevent injury and reduce pain using exercise and evidence-based physical therapies. […]
There is no ‘end goal’ when it comes to practicing mindfulness meditation. When you learn the skills of compassion-based mindfulness and practice these skills regularly, it very much becomes a way of approaching, living, and enhancing your life. I was particularly struck recently, at the last session of an introductory […]
Continuing the theme from last month, BirdWatch Ireland (West Cork Branch) committee member Fiona O’Neill, writes on her passion for wildflowers. During the past year, many people have become more attuned to birdsong and the presence of birds in their surroundings. Early summer is a good time to turn that […]
Moze Jacobs looks into the benefits of agroforestry Not so long ago, trees, hedgerows, coppices, and shrubs were a natural part of the Irish (agricultural) landscape and taken for granted. Now, these features are rapidly disappearing or have disappeared in many places; to the detriment of biodiversity and the environment, […]