All posts

Understanding OCD: It doesn't just mean you're a neat freak.

03 Feb 2020

Often in popular culture, obsessive compulsive disorder is passed off as a funny personality trait that makes someone the butt of the joke. ...

How to be more empathetic in an increasingly narcissistic world

13 Dec 2019

There is a saying, “be the change you want to see in the world”. In a world where many are too wrapped up in their own lives to look up from ...

Understanding the impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) in adulthood

14 Nov 2019

When a problem arises in our lives, we often wonder what the cause of it is. Why all of a sudden we feel low, anxious or angry. Tr ...

Sleeping Problems - tips for people who find it hard to sleep

31 Oct 2019

It’s 5 am. You have to be up for work at 7. But you haven’t been up all night partying, you’ve just been lying in bed all this tim ...

How to be productive on a bad mental health day

08 Oct 2019

Bad days happen. Things go wrong, other people’s moods affect us differently or, as we look at here, sometimes we feel off. Knowin ...

How to NOT live up to other's expectations

26 Sep 2019

There are times in life when we feel content. We know what we have is what we need and our relationships fulfil our emotional need ...

Steps we can take to improve mental health

16 Sep 2019

Mental health, or the spectrum of feelings that we all experience every day, is a broad and wide-reaching area of life that impact ...

Separation anxiety

16 Sep 2019

As the new school year takes over many Irish houses, the topic of separation anxiety becomes common around many dinner tables. For ...

Watching pain: How to deal with someone who can't/won't help themselves (addiction, bereavement)

05 Sep 2019

When someone in our lives is struggling, it causes within each of us a particular reaction. Some of us will seek to ‘save’, some w ...

Parenting adults

19 Aug 2019

Around the time of year of the leaving cert results, many parents put themselves in the shoes of those whose children have reached ...