This episode explores how laughter heals us, unites us, and asks: how we can create more opportunities to laugh in our lives? Niall speaks to Dr Sophie Scott about tickling rats for a living; and Roisin Conaty about fart jokes, creativity, and the work of making people laugh.Produced by Niall Breslin and Ciara O’Connor Walsh
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This episode of Where Is My Mind looks at the healing power of nature, and challenges us to learn how to care more about nature to preserve it and its potential to nurture us. Niall speaks with Ruth Fitzmaurice, author of ‘I Found My Tribe’, about giving her daily tangle of worries to the cold
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This episode of Where Is My Mind explores the ‘uncarved block’ of a beginners mind, and how we can strive to recreate childlike wonder in our daily lives. Niall talks the Late Late Toy Show and children’s role in politics with Ryan Tubridy, and talks to some children about their perfect day. Produced by Niall
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To coincide with the release of ‘The Chill Skill’, the latest in a series of bestselling Children’s picture books by myself and illustrated by Emma Proctor, I have created a series of customised mindfulness mini-series to help the kids in your life find some space in their hectic days, to give their busy minds a
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Every system is built on an invisible foundation, supported by invisible scaffolding, which is our cultural understanding of mental health. If our system isn’t fir for purpose, what culture, what beliefs are shoring up this system? In this final episode in the six-part series of Where There’s A Will, we will try and shine a
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We so often hear the message that if you are suffering or having a hard time with your mental health, to just ask for help. The story we don’t often hear is what happens when you do. In the first full-length episode of Where There’s A Will, co-hosts Paula and Ciara talk to Broadcast Journalist
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GROW.ie Podcasts COVID 19 Sile Tracey is joined by Regional Manager Mary Purcell, and Area Co-ordinator Jacki Hehir to here Ned’s amazing story of how GROW helped him overcome severe mental health challenges
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GROW.ie Podcasts Week 4: Routine, Routine Routine…Mike Watts joins Sile Tracey to reflect on his personal journey and the benefits of GROW Mental Health Recovery
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A Point of Growth – Live podcast interview with Michael HardingRecorded at the #whereismymind live podcast for the Dublin Podcast Festival in the Sugar Club on November 18th. Michael Harding is a man whose writings, work and words have inspired me to understand the true comprehension of emotional transparency, intelligence, literacy and transparency. That vulnerability
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This meditation is the final meditation in the series accompanying episode 6, and guided by Niall Breslin. The meditation is about recognising the journey we have been on together over the past six weeks, and about getting some valuable perspective on your life at this present moment. It reflects on how finding a way to
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The final episode in series one of Where Is My Mind talks about perspective, zooming out, and how meditation helps us reflect on our lives as a bigger picture. Niall meets an astronaut and an artist who reflect on this perspective from the point of view of star gazing and being in outer space, looking
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The lake meditation accompanies episode 5 of Where is my Mind. It is adapted from Jon Kabat-Zinn’s Lake Meditation, and guided by Niall Breslin. Like the mountain meditation, the lake meditation uses nature as a strong visualisation anchor that guides us to present moment awareness. The lakes surface can changes from day to day. It
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