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By Mary McHugh Read more about Mary As humans we can be strange creatures. Most of us needs have an understanding about what may be happening to us and this allows for us to have clearer seeing with what may be going on for us…

Sometimes I wish a tornado would blow the roof off this house of anxiety and clear it down to the foundation when the clouds clear and the sun shines again I can rebuild a stronger house -S.M. Pastor Photo by Sean Calvey By Miriam Murphy…

By Sarah Culligan Read more about Sarah. A friend of mine recently experienced the death of an ex-partner which brought up a number of unexpected feelings for her. The typical grief responses set in-shock, disbelief, sadness, numbness. Alongside these fairly widely accepted feelings of loss…

Photo by Sean Calvey We are unprecedented times. Asking my parents if they remember anything remotely like this and they don’t. To see, not only fear in their faces but dismay and confusion is unsettling for me as a mother, soon to be grandmother myself.…

As I sit to begin to try and explain how difficult it is coming to grips with the fast pace of social media. I am pulled between do I write about it or do I post a video. Which will get more hits. How can…

Photo by Sean Calvey Generational Healing on a Global Scale. Are we repeating the patterns of dis-ease over and over again? What is happening within the global brain? In 1894 32 Achill people lost their lives when their boat capsized in Clew Bay. They were…

Don’t be fooled by the mask I wear, that is the first line of a great poem by Charles Finn. We, as humans are great at masking what is really going on for us. We live in a very fast world where it appears to…