For so many of us we may never be able to say or tell how we really feel. Our Mental Health is fragile and can so often be vulnerable to the impact of life situations and events. Sadly Mental Health issues can stlll carry a stigma and therefore so often we do not dare to…
Category: Grief
Seeking Life’s Shelter
I recall in the countryside where I grew up, that if heavy rain or hail showers came while walking in the fields, we would put ourselves up close to the hedge for shelter until it passed. I’ve had to do similar many times through life’s ebbs. Like the shelter of the hedge, I have sought…
Connecting to ‘The Human Story’
Emigration is a familiar one to us Irish. At so many different times in our history many thousands of Irish men, women and children have had to leave our shores to escape poverty, hunger, eviction and unemployment and go in search of work and the hope of a better life .In their search they have…
INSIGHTS of GRIEF and LOSS
Grief and loss in it’s many forms, meets us all on the road at some point in our lives. It can take us totally out of the familiar, it can feel like we are being hollowed out. In such times the very core of our being cries out in pain. Indeed, it is so intense…